MarkDiffusion: An Open-Source Toolkit for Generative Watermarking of Latent Diffusion Models

Leyi Pan, Sheng Guan, Zheyu Fu, Luyang Si, Zian Wang, Xuming Hu, Irwin King, Philip S. Yu, Aiwei Liu, Lijie Wen

Published: 2025/9/11

Abstract

We introduce MarkDiffusion, an open-source Python toolkit for generative watermarking of latent diffusion models. It comprises three key components: a unified implementation framework for streamlined watermarking algorithm integrations and user-friendly interfaces; a mechanism visualization suite that intuitively showcases added and extracted watermark patterns to aid public understanding; and a comprehensive evaluation module offering standard implementations of 24 tools across three essential aspects - detectability, robustness, and output quality - plus 8 automated evaluation pipelines. Through MarkDiffusion, we seek to assist researchers, enhance public awareness and engagement in generative watermarking, and promote consensus while advancing research and applications.

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