Synchronized Logit Steering: Real-world Steganography

[2608.14697] Synchronized Logit Steering: Real-world Steganography Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Search arXiv Press Enter to search · Advanced search Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2608.14697 (cs) [Submitted on 9 Aug 2026] Title: Synchronized Logit Steering: Real-world Steganography Authors: Andrew Rufail , Aadi Dash , Onir Narahari , Ethan Mui , Mahi Gajare , Prakhar Tiwari , Shrija Makapothula , Nick Cui View a PDF of the paper titled Synchronized Logit Steering: Real-world Steganography, by Andrew Rufail and 7 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Steganography in large language models offers a way to embed hidden messages within natural-sounding text. Existing token and logit-level methods typically require the sender and receiver to share an identical prompt context, which is rarely guaranteed in production pipelines that use retrieval-augmented generation or proprietary system instructions. We introduce Synchronized Logit Steering (SLS), a deterministic steganographic scheme that eliminates this dependency by deriving a proxy prompt from the generated output itself, allowing both parties to reconstruct the same logit distribution without access to the original prompt. SLS encodes payload values as token ranks within high-entropy regions of the proxy prompt distribution, and we extend the scheme with periodic recurrence and payload bursts to scale information density. Across ShareGPT, GSM8K, and SWE-bench Verified, we show that the KL divergence between the true and proxy prompt distributions falls below 0.5 nats once the synchronization window reaches 40 tokens, and SLS encoding does not meaningfully disrupt this convergence relative to greedy generation. We also find that the periodic-burst variant achieves 0.20 bits per token, or roughly 10x the capacity of single-payload encoding. Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests further confirm that SLS outputs are statistically difficult to distinguish from greedy generations, demonstrating that covert, prompt-agnostic communication through LLMs is both practical and stealthy. Subjects: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2608.14697 [cs.AI] (or arXiv:2608.14697v1 [cs.AI] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.14697 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Andrew Rufail [ view email ] [v1] Sun, 9 Aug 2026 22:49:45 UTC (616 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Synchronized Logit Steering: Real-world Steganography, by Andrew Rufail and 7 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.AI < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab) Major funding support from

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