Watermarking papers, 2023–2026
Model and content watermarking
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 101 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Watermarking went from 6 papers in 2023 to 56 in 2026, roughly 9.3x in three years.
- NeurIPS publishes the most Watermarking work: 34 papers from 2023 to 2026, 34% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Social aspects · accountability transparency and interpretability: papers tagged with both rose from 0 in 2023 to 18 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Security and Trust, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Verification, is up 6.0x versus 9.3x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 2024 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 17 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 22 |
| 2026 | 18 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 56 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026Auditing Cross-Lingual Fairness in Language Model Watermarking
- ICML 2026Ideal Attribution and Faithful Watermarks for Language Models
- ICLR 2026An Ensemble Framework for Unbiased Language Model Watermarking
- CVPR 2026Convolutional Neural Networks Driven by Content Similarity
- NeurIPS 2025BitMark: Watermarking Bitwise Autoregressive Image Generative Models
- ICML 2025STAMP Your Content: Proving Dataset Membership via Watermarked Rephrasings
- ICLR 2025A Watermark for Order-Agnostic Language Models
- CVPR 2025OmniGuard: Hybrid Manipulation Localization via Augmented Versatile Deep Image Watermarking
- NeurIPS 2024FreqMark: Invisible Image Watermarking via Frequency Based Optimization in Latent Space
- ICML 2024DE-COP: Detecting Copyrighted Content in Language Models Training Data
- ICLR 2024On the Learnability of Watermarks for Language Models
- CVPR 2024EditGuard: Versatile Image Watermarking for Tamper Localization and Copyright Protection
- NeurIPS 2023An information-theoretic quantification of the content of communication between brain regions
- ICML 2023Margin-based Neural Network Watermarking
- CVPR 2023CAP-VSTNet: Content Affinity Preserved Versatile Style Transfer
- NeurIPS 2026Face Deepfake-aware Recovery via Semantic-driven Facial Representation-based Watermarking
- ICML 2026Towards Reliable Marking and Verification of AI-Generated Text via Geometry-aware Sentence-level Watermarking
- ICLR 2026Analyzing and Evaluating Unbiased Language Model Watermark
- CVPR 2026Decoupling Defense Strategies for Robust Image Watermarking
- NeurIPS 2025Provable Watermarking for Data Poisoning Attacks
All Watermarking papers
14 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2026An Ensemble Framework for Unbiased Language Model Watermarking
- ICLR 2026Analyzing and Evaluating Unbiased Language Model Watermark
- ICLR 2026Attack-Resistant Watermarking for AIGC Image Forensics via Diffusion-based Semantic Deflection
- ICLR 2026CompMarkGS: Robust Watermarking for Compressed 3D Gaussian Splatting
- ICLR 2026MUSE: Model-Agnostic Tabular Watermarking via Multi-Sample Selection
- ICLR 2026NoisePrints: Distortion-Free Watermarks for Authorship in Private Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026PMark: Towards Robust and Distortion-free Semantic-level Watermarking with Channel Constraints
- ICLR 2026Spherical Watermark: Encryption-Free, Lossless Watermarking for Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2026THE SELF-RE-WATERMARKING TRAP: FROM EXPLOIT TO RESILIENCE
- ICLR 2026WaterDrum: Watermark-based Data-centric Unlearning Metric
- ICLR 2026Watermarking Diffusion Language Models
- ICLR 2025A Watermark for Order-Agnostic Language Models
- ICLR 2025Hidden in the Noise: Two-Stage Robust Watermarking for Images
- ICLR 2024On the Learnability of Watermarks for Language Models
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FAQ
- How many Watermarking papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 101 in total: 6 in 2023, 17 in 2024, 22 in 2025, 56 in 2026.
- How many Watermarking papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 18 Watermarking papers, versus 10 the year before.
- How many Watermarking papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 11 Watermarking papers, versus 2 the year before.
- How many Watermarking papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 16 Watermarking papers, versus 6 the year before.
- How many Watermarking papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 11 Watermarking papers, versus 4 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Watermarking papers?
- NeurIPS, with 34 papers from 2023 to 2026.