Zheng Lin
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2026
MEMMARK: State-Evolution Attribution Watermarking for Agent Long-Term Memory Systems
Haobo Zhang | Xutao Mao | Guangyuan Dong | Ziwei Li | Xuanbo Su | Kaijie Chen | Jing Yang | Zheng Lin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Haobo Zhang | Xutao Mao | Guangyuan Dong | Ziwei Li | Xuanbo Su | Kaijie Chen | Jing Yang | Zheng Lin
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Memory-backed agents need provenance that can survive leaked or migrated snapshots, where logs, visible outputs, and trusted metadata may be absent. We propose MEMMARK, a state-evolution attribution watermark that embeds an owner-controlled signal into latent memory-write decisions. At each internal LLM call, MEMMARK samples among admissible candidates using keyed, distribution-preserving selection, and records cryptographic commitments with signed session anchors and reveal evidence. This makes attribution depend on reproducible backend behavior rather than mutable provenance fields. Across A-Mem and Graphiti on LOCOMO, with three LLM backbones, MEMMARK preserves memory utility: Overall F1 retains 99.6 percent of the unwatermarked baseline, while BLEU-1 changes by +0.2 percent. It also provides usable carrier capacity, with 1.16, 1.14, and 1.26 bits of mean entropy for update-target, link-target, and semantic-realization decisions. In the snapshot-only R3 setting, MEMMARK recovers the full 40-bit payload from final snapshots, while wrong-key verification remains near chance. Under nine memory-lifecycle attacks, verification distinguishes tampering, evidence deletion, and partial payload recovery. These results show that robust snapshot-only attribution is feasible for long-term agent memory without surviving traces, trusted metadata, or utility degradation.
JPO: Juris Policy Optimization for Structured Legal Reasoning in Criminal Judgment Prediction
Zhaolu Kang | Yantao Liu | Tailong Luo | Leqi Zheng | Lei Wei | Chenghua Zhu | Junhao Gong | Jiachen Qian | Eric Hanchen Jiang | Jiaxin Liu | Yuan Wang | Hao Zhang | Zixia Wang | Rong Fu | Zheng Lin | Richeng Xuan | Zhichao Hu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Zhaolu Kang | Yantao Liu | Tailong Luo | Leqi Zheng | Lei Wei | Chenghua Zhu | Junhao Gong | Jiachen Qian | Eric Hanchen Jiang | Jiaxin Liu | Yuan Wang | Hao Zhang | Zixia Wang | Rong Fu | Zheng Lin | Richeng Xuan | Zhichao Hu
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Criminal judgment prediction requires models to infer statutory articles, charges, and sentencing outcomes from case facts. Unlike standard classification tasks, it involves a structured reasoning process in which statutes should be matched with facts, charges should be justified by statutes, and sentencing outcomes should remain consistent with charges. Existing approaches optimize final labels, and while some have attempted to evaluate reasoning quality, their evaluations are indirect, often relying on LLM-generated rubrics that reflect model-internal preferences rather than the inherent logical structure of legal adjudication. We propose Juris Policy Optimization (JPO), a post-training framework for structured legal reasoning in Chinese criminal judgment prediction. JPO first uses teacher-generated rationales to supervise a standardized four-step reasoning process, and then applies reinforcement learning with a composite reward over legal prediction quality, reasoning structure completeness, and cross-step consistency. JPO further introduces token-level advantage reweighting and adaptive clipping for legally salient reasoning segments. Experiments on multiple open-source language models and three Chinese legal benchmarks show that JPO consistently improves both judgment prediction and reasoning quality over supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning baselines.