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The use of three extractors, fed by linear feedback shift registers (LFSR) for generating pseudo-random bit streams is investigated. Specifically, a standard LFSR is combined with a von Neumann extractor, a modified LFSR, extended by the…
Pseudorandom number generation (PRNG) is a key element in hardware security platforms like field-programmable gate array FPGA circuits. In this article, 18 PRNGs belonging in 4 families (xorshift, LFSR, TGFSR, and LCG) are physically…
With the advancement of quantum computing technologies, recent years have seen increasing efforts to identify cryptographic methods resistant to quantum attacks and to establish post-quantum cryptography (PQC) approaches. Among these,…
We study the identity testing problem in the context of spin systems or undirected graphical models, where it takes the following form: given the parameter specification of the model $M$ and a sampling oracle for the distribution…
The Mersenne Twister MT19937 pseudorandom number generator, introduced by the last two authors in 1998, is still widely used. It passes all existing statistical tests, except for the linear complexity test, which measures the ratio of the…
Assessing the stability of a multiple testing procedure under dependence is important but very challenging. Even for multiple testing which among a set of Normal random variables have mean zero, which we refer to as the "Normal means…
The aim of this Thesis is to present five new tests for random numbers, which are widely used {\em e.g.} in computer simulations in physics applications. The first two tests, the cluster test and the autocorrelation test, are based on…
Statistical tests of pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) are applicable to any type of random number generators and are indispensable for evaluation. While several practical packages for statistical tests of randomness exist, they may…
The paper deals with the allocation of the probability of false alert within the advanced receiver integrity monitoring method. Namely, the stress is laid on the correct computation of the probability of false alert per sample under…
Optimization plays a key role in the training of deep neural networks. Deciding when to stop training can have a substantial impact on the performance of the network during inference. Under certain conditions, the generalization error can…
Consistency regularization and pseudo-labeling have significantly advanced semi-supervised learning (SSL). Prior works have effectively employed Mixup for consistency regularization in SSL. However, our findings indicate that applying Mixup…
The multiple testing procedure plays an important role in detecting the presence of spatial signals for large-scale imaging data. Typically, the spatial signals are sparse but clustered. This paper provides empirical evidence that for a…
In future nuclear arms control treaties, it will be necessary to authenticate the hardware and software components of verification measurement systems, i.e., to ensure these systems are functioning as intended and have not been tampered…
The statistical characterization of the measurement errors of a phasor measurement unit (PMU) is currently receiving considerable interest in the power systems community. This paper focuses on the characteristics of the errors in magnitude…
Diagnostic accuracy studies assess sensitivity and specificity of a new index test in relation to an established comparator or the reference standard. The development and selection of the index test is usually assumed to be conducted prior…
Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting, which extracts unique hardware imperfections of radio devices, has emerged as a promising physical-layer device identification mechanism in zero trust architectures and beyond 5G networks. In particular,…
Label Shift has been widely believed to be harmful to the generalization performance of machine learning models. Researchers have proposed many approaches to mitigate the impact of the label shift, e.g., balancing the training data.…
Manual scoring of polysomnography (PSG) is a time intensive task, prone to inter scorer variability that can impact diagnostic reliability. This study investigates the integration of decision support systems (DSS) into PSG scoring…
Growing interest in automatic speaker verification (ASV)systems has lead to significant quality improvement of spoofing attackson them. Many research works confirm that despite the low equal er-ror rate (EER) ASV systems are still…
Matrix factorization mechanisms for differentially private training have emerged as a promising approach to improve model utility under privacy constraints. In practical settings, models are typically trained over multiple epochs, requiring…