AGMark: Attention-Guided Dynamic Watermarking for Large Vision-Language Models
Watermarking has emerged as a pivotal solution for content traceability and intellectual property protection in large vision language models (LVLMs). However, vision-agnostic watermarks may introduce visually irrelevant tokens and disrupt visual grounding by enforcing indiscriminate pseudo-random biases. Additionally, current vision-specific watermarks rely on a static, one-time estimation of vision-critical weights and ignore the weight distribution density when determining the proportion of protected tokens. This design fails to account for dynamic changes in visual dependence during generation and may introduce low-quality tokens in the long tail. To address these challenges, we propose Attention-Guided Dynamic Watermarking (AGMark), a novel framework that embeds detectable signals while largely preserving visual-semantic fidelity. At each decoding step, AGMark first dynamically identifies semantic-critical evidence based on attention weights for visual relevance, together with context-aware coherence cues, resulting in a more adaptive and well-calibrated evidence-weight distribution. It then determines the proportion of semantic-critical tokens by jointly considering uncertainty awareness (token entropy) and evidence calibration (weight density), thereby enabling more reliable adaptive vocabulary partitioning to avoid irrelevant tokens. Empirical results consistently confirm that AGMark outperforms conventional methods, substantially improving generation quality and yielding particularly strong gains in visual semantic fidelity in the later stages of generation. Our framework maintains highly competitive detection performance (at least 99.36% AUC) and robust attack resilience (at least 88.61% AUC) without sacrificing inference efficiency, taking a significant step toward reliability-preserving multimodal watermarking.
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