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A Secure and Disambiguating Approach for Generative Linguistic Steganography

11 Aug 2023IEEE Signal Processing Letters 2023 8archive 2025-07-28

Ruiyi Yan, Yating Yang, Tian Song

Segmentation ambiguity in generative linguistic steganography could induce decoding errors. One existing disambiguating way is removing the tokens whose mapping words are the prefixes of others in each candidate pool. However, it neglects probability distribution of candidates and degrades imperceptibility. To enhance steganographic security, meanwhile addressing segmentation ambiguity, we propose a secure and disambiguating approach for linguistic steganography. In this letter, we focus on two questions: (1) Which candidate pools should be modified? (2) Which tokens should be retained? Firstly, we propose a secure token-selection principle that the sum of selected tokens' probabilities is positively correlated to statistical imperceptibility. To meet both disambiguation and optimal security, we present a lightweight disambiguating approach that is finding out a maximum weight independent set (MWIS) in one candidate graph only when candidate-level ambiguity occurs. Experiments show that our approach outperforms the existing method in various security metrics, improving 25.7% statistical imperceptibility and 11.2% anti-steganalysis capacity averagely.

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