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Deepfake detection systems deployed in real-world environments are subject to adversaries capable of crafting imperceptible perturbations that degrade model performance. While adversarial training is a widely adopted defense, its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Adrian Serrano , Erwan Umlil , Ronan Thomas

Program obfuscation is increasingly popular among malware creators. Objectively comparing different malware detection approaches with respect to their resilience against obfuscation is challenging. To the best of our knowledge, there is no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-02-16 Sebastian Banescu , Tobias Wüchner , Marius Guggenmos , Martín Ochoa , Alexander Pretschner

Be it for a malicious or legitimate purpose, packing, a transformation that consists in applying various operations like compression or encryption to a binary file, i.e. for making reverse engineering harder or obfuscating code, is widely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Alexandre D'Hondt , Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel , Axel Legay

Bayesian optimization is widely employed for optimizing complex black-box functions but struggles with the curse of dimensionality. Random embedding, as a dimension reduction strategy, simplifies tasks that possess the effective dimension…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hong Qian , Xiang Shu , Xiang Xia , Xuhui Liu , Yangde Fu , Bei Liang , Huibin Wang , Liang Dou

Deep neural networks (DNNs) can be manipulated to exhibit specific behaviors when exposed to specific trigger patterns, without affecting their performance on benign samples, dubbed \textit{backdoor attack}. Currently, implementing backdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Ruotong Wang , Hongrui Chen , Zihao Zhu , Li Liu , Baoyuan Wu

Reachability analysis is a fundamental problem for safety verification and falsification of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) whose dynamics follow physical laws usually represented as differential equations. In the last two decades, numerous…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Hoang-Dung Tran , Weiming Xiang , Nathaniel Hamilton , Taylor T. Johnson

Irregular codes are bottlenecked by memory and communication latency. Decoupled access/execute (DAE) is a common technique to tackle this problem. It relies on the compiler to separate memory address generation from the rest of the program,…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Robert Szafarczyk , Syed Waqar Nabi , Wim Vanderbauwhede

Reverse engineering of binary executables is a critical problem in the computer security domain. On the one hand, malicious parties may recover interpretable source codes from the software products to gain commercial advantages. On the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Cheng Fu , Huili Chen , Haolan Liu , Xinyun Chen , Yuandong Tian , Farinaz Koushanfar , Jishen Zhao

Disentangled sequential autoencoders (DSAEs) represent a class of probabilistic graphical models that describes an observed sequence with dynamic latent variables and a static latent variable. The former encode information at a frame rate…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yin-Jyun Luo , Sebastian Ewert , Simon Dixon

Dimensionality reduction of decision variables is a practical and classic method to reduce the computational burden in linear and Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC). Available results range from early move-blocking ideas to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Guanru Pan , Timm Faulwasser

A commonly shared component of antivirus suites is a local database of malware signatures that is used during the static analysis process. Despite possible encryption, heuristic obfuscation, or attempts to hide this database from malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Aubrey Alston

Software obfuscation plays a crucial role in protecting intellectual property in software from reverse engineering attempts. While some obfuscation techniques originate from the obfuscation-reverse engineering arms race, others stem from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Giulio De Pasquale , Fukutomo Nakanishi , Daniele Ferla , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Backward error (BE) analysis emerges as a powerful tool for assessing the backward stability and strong backward stability of numerical algorithms. In this paper, we explore structured BEs for a class of double saddle point problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Sk. Safique Ahmad , Pinki Khatun

In the context of model-driven development, ensuring the correctness and consistency of evolving models is paramount. This paper investigates the application of Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE) for semantic difference analysis of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Johanna Grahl , Bernhard Rumpe , Max Stachon , Sebastian Stüber

As energy efficiency became a critical factor in the embedded systems domain, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) techniques have emerged as means to control the system's power and energy efficiency. Additionally, due to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Jonatan Waern , Per Ekemark , Konstantinos Koukos , Stefanos Kaxiras , Alexandra Jimborean

Opaque predicates are a well-established fundamental building block for software obfuscation. Simplified, an opaque predicate implements an expression that provides constant Boolean output, but appears to have dynamic behavior for static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Max Hoffmann , Christof Paar

Unlearnable examples (UEs) seek to maximize testing error by making subtle modifications to training examples that are correctly labeled. Defenses against these poisoning attacks can be categorized based on whether specific interventions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yi Yu , Yufei Wang , Song Xia , Wenhan Yang , Shijian Lu , Yap-Peng Tan , Alex C. Kot

Obfuscation poses a persistent challenge for software engineering tasks such as program comprehension, maintenance, testing, and vulnerability detection. While compiler optimizations and third-party code often introduce transformations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Rong Feng , Suman Saha

Selective image encryption is common in remote sensing systems because it protects sensitive regions of interest (ROI) while limiting computational cost. However, many selective designs enable cross-tile structural leakage under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jilei Sun , Dianhong Wu , Ying Su

Symbolic execution is a program analysis technique executing programs with symbolic instead of concrete inputs. This principle allows for exploring many program paths at once. Despite its wide adoption -- in particular for program testing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Arthur Correnson , Dominic Steinhoefel