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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a distributed system of physical objects that requires the seamless integration of hardware (e.g., sensors, actuators, electronics) and network communications in order to collect and exchange data. IoT smart…

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Software obfuscation techniques make code more difficult to understand, without changing its functionality. Such techniques are often used by authors of malicious software to avoid detection. Reverse Engineering of obfuscated code, i.e.,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Nir Somech , Guy Katz

Internet-scale quantum repeater networks will be heterogeneous in physical technology, repeater functionality, and management. The classical control necessary to use the network will therefore face similar issues as Internet data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-21 Rodney Van Meter , Joe Touch , Dominic Horsman

Resistive-capacitive (RC) networks are used to model various processes in engineering, physics or biology. We consider the problem of recovering the network connection structure from measured input-output data. We address this problem as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Gabriele Calzavara , Luca Consolini , Juxhino Kavaja

Reversible computation has been recognised as a potential solution to the technological bottleneck in the future of computing machinery. Rolf Landauer determined the lower limit for power dissipation in computation and noted that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-11-18 Harun Siljak , Julien de Rosny , Mathias Fink

The promise of compressive sensing (CS) has been offset by two significant challenges. First, real-world data is not exactly sparse in a fixed basis. Second, current high-performance recovery algorithms are slow to converge, which limits CS…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-17 Ali Mousavi , Richard G. Baraniuk

Molecular communication is a novel approach for data transmission between miniaturized devices, especially in contexts where electrical signals are to be avoided. The communication is based on sending molecules (or other particles) at nano…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Max Bartunik , Jens Kirchner , Oliver Keszocze

Learned inverse problem solvers exhibit remarkable performance in applications like image reconstruction tasks. These data-driven reconstruction methods often follow a two-step scheme. First, one trains the often neural network-based…

Network theory and inverse modeling are two standard tools of applied physics, whose combination is needed when studying the dynamical organization of spatially distributed systems from indirect measurements. However, the associated…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-01-30 Vincent Wens

When several wireless users are sharing the spectrum, packet collision is a simple, yet widely used model for interference. Under this model, when transmitters cause interference at any of the receivers, their collided packets are discarded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Alireza Vahid , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

Neural networks have emerged as powerful tools across various applications, yet their decision-making process often remains opaque, leading to them being perceived as "black boxes." This opacity raises concerns about their interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Pirzada Suhail , Hao Tang , Amit Sethi

An important aspect of developing reliable deep learning systems is devising strategies that make these systems robust to adversarial attacks. There is a long line of work that focuses on developing defenses against these attacks, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Darshan Thaker , Paris Giampouras , René Vidal

Humans are accustomed to reading and writing in a forward manner, and this natural bias extends to text understanding in auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). This paper investigates whether LLMs, like humans, struggle with reverse…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sicheng Yu , Yuanchen Xu , Cunxiao Du , Yanying Zhou , Minghui Qiu , Qianru Sun , Hao Zhang , Jiawei Wu

In this chapter we provide a theoretically founded investigation of state-of-the-art learning approaches for inverse problems from the point of view of spectral reconstruction operators. We give an extended definition of regularization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-05 Martin Burger , Samira Kabri

This study investigates the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4, in the context of Binary Reverse Engineering (RE). Employing a structured experimental approach, we analyzed the LLM's performance in interpreting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Saman Pordanesh , Benjamin Tan

"Module networks" are a framework to learn gene regulatory networks from expression data using a probabilistic model in which coregulated genes share the same parameters and conditional distributions. We present a method to infer ensembles…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-04-09 Tom Michoel , Riet De Smet , Anagha Joshi , Kathleen Marchal , Yves Van de Peer

The future wireless networks envision ultra-reliable communication with efficient use of the limited wireless channel resources. Closed-loop repetition protocols where retransmission of a packet is enabled using a feedback channel has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Saeed R. Khosravirad , Harish Viswanathan

Protocol reverse engineering based on traffic traces infers the behavior of unknown network protocols by analyzing observable network messages. To perform correct deduction of message semantics or behavior analysis, accurate message type…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Stephan Kleber , Rens Wouter van der Heijden , Frank Kargl

Reverse Engineering (RE) is central to software security, enabling tasks such as vulnerability discovery and malware analysis, but it remains labor-intensive and requires substantial expertise. Earlier advances in deep learning start to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xinyu Hu , Zhiwei Fu , Shaocong Xie , Steven H. H. Ding , Philippe Charland

In this letter we define a family of entanglement distribution protocols assisted by feedback classical communication that gives an operational interpretation to reverse coherent information, i.e., the symmetric counterpart of the well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Raúl García-Patrón , Stefano Pirandola , Seth Lloyd , Jeffrey H. Shapiro