On the Intrinsic Limited Robustness of Latent-Based Watermarking

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arXiv:2610.08178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing latent-based watermarking methods for diffusion models have overestimated their robustness to image distortions, including geometric transformations such as rotation, scaling, and translation (RST). Moreover, this paradigm of watermarking approaches may suffer from inherent limitations arising from the domain in which the watermark is embedded. In this paper, we provide the first theoretical analysis explaining why these methods lack invar