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Recently, the enactment of ``right to be forgotten" laws and regulations has imposed new privacy requirements on federated learning (FL). Researchers aim to remove the influence of certain data from the trained model without training from…

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Prior research yielded many techniques to mitigate software compromise for low-end Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Some of them detect software modifications via remote attestation and similar services, while others preventatively ensure…

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Split Federated Learning (SFL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative training by partitioning models between clients and a server. However, under non-IID data distributions, SFL often suffers from biased optimization and unstable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuhan Xie , Chen Lyu , Jingrong Huang

For reverse engineering related security domains, such as vulnerability detection, malware analysis, and binary hardening, disassembly is crucial yet challenging. The fundamental challenge of disassembly is to identify instruction and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Peicheng Wang , Monika Santra , Mingyu Liu , Cong Sun , Dongrui Zeng , Gang Tan

Work Stealing has been a very successful algorithm for scheduling parallel computations, and is known to achieve high performances even for computations exhibiting fine-grained parallelism. We present a variant of \ws\ that provably avoids…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Guilherme Rito , Hervé Paulino

Compiler-based Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) offers strong forward-edge protection but remains challenging to deploy in large C/C++ software due to visibility mismatches, type inconsistencies, and unintended behavioral failures. We present…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Sabine Houy , Bruno Kreyssig , Alexandre Bartel

This paper presents an extension to an existing instruction set architecture, which gains considerable reduction in power consumption. The reduction in power consumption is achieved through coding of the most commonly executed instructions…

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Modern CPUs suffer from the frontend bottleneck because the instruction footprint of server workloads exceeds the private cache capacity. Prior works have examined the CPU components or private cache to improve the instruction hit rate. The…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jaewon Kwon , Yongju Lee , Jiwan Kim , Enhyeok Jang , Hongju Kal , Won Woo Ro

Intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD) plays a crucial role in ensuring the safe operation of industrial machinery and improving production efficiency. However, traditional supervised deep learning methods require a large amount of training data…

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Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a model in a distributed fashion. Many existing researches have focused on improving communication efficiency of high-dimensional models and addressing bias caused by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Yuzhu Mao , Zihao Zhao , Meilin Yang , Le Liang , Yang Liu , Wenbo Ding , Tian Lan , Xiao-Ping Zhang

As we have entered Exascale computing, the faults in high-performance systems are expected to increase considerably. To compensate for a higher failure rate, the standard checkpoint/restart technique would need to create checkpoints at a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Sarthak Joshi , Sathish Vadhiyar

Fault injection (FI) is a powerful attack methodology allowing an adversary to entirely break the security of a target device. As finite-state machines (FSMs) are fundamental hardware building blocks responsible for controlling systems,…

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Memory corruption errors in C/C++ programs remain the most common source of security vulnerabilities in today's systems. Control-flow hijacking attacks exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities to divert program execution away from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Nathan Burow , Scott A. Carr , Joseph Nash , Per Larsen , Michael Franz , Stefan Brunthaler , Mathias Payer

There is a growing need for pluralistic alignment methods that can steer language models towards individual attributes and preferences. One such method, Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information (SAMI), uses conditional mutual…

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ASIPs are designed in order to execute instructions of a particular domain of applications. The designing of ASIPs addresses the major challenges faced by a system on chip such as size, cost, performance and energy consumption. The higher…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-25 T. M. R. L. B. Abeysinghe , N. Hassan , R. G. Ragel

Frontier Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini can decipher cryptic compiler errors for novice programmers, but their computational scale, cost, and tendency to over-assist make them problematic for widespread pedagogical…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Lorenzo Lee Solano , Charles Koutcheme , Juho Leinonen , Alexandra Vassar , Jake Renzella

Applications written in low-level languages without type or memory safety are especially prone to memory corruption. Attackers gain code execution capabilities through such applications despite all currently deployed defenses by exploiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Mathias Payer , Antonio Barresi , Thomas R. Gross

Cache coherence protocols based on self-invalidation and self-downgrade have recently seen increased popularity due to their simplicity, potential performance efficiency, and low energy consumption. However, such protocols result in memory…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Parosh Aziz Abdulla , Mohamed Faouzi Atig , Stefanos Kaxiras , Carl Leonardsson , Alberto Ros , Yunyun Zhu

Federated unlearning has emerged as a promising paradigm to erase the client-level data effect without affecting the performance of collaborative learning models. However, the federated unlearning process often introduces extensive storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yijing Lin , Zhipeng Gao , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Gui Gui , Shuguang Cui , Jinke Ren

The experimental evaluation of fault-tolerance studies relies on tools that inject errors while programs are running, and then monitor the execution and the output for faulty execution. In particular, the established methodology in…

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