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Modern Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) employ undocumented linear address-scrambling functions to obfuscate DRAM addressing, which complicates DRAM-aware performance optimizations and hinders proactive security analysis of DRAM-based attacks; most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Antoine Plin , Lorenzo Casalino , Thomas Rokicki , Ruben Salvador

Neural networks have shown remarkable performance in various tasks, yet they remain susceptible to subtle changes in their input or model parameters. One particularly impactful vulnerability arises through the Bit-Flip Attack (BFA), where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Nadav Benedek , Matan Levy , Mahmood Sharif

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is the de-facto choice for main memory devices due to its cost-effectiveness. It offers a larger capacity and higher bandwidth compared to SRAM but is slower than the latter. With each passing generation,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Kaustav Goswami , Hemanta Kumar Mondal , Shirshendu Das , Dip Sankar Banerjee

Per Row Activation Counting (PRAC) has emerged as a robust framework for mitigating RowHammer (RH) vulnerabilities in modern DRAM systems. However, we uncover a critical vulnerability: a timing channel introduced by the Alert Back-Off (ABO)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jeonghyun Woo , Joyce Qu , Gururaj Saileshwar , Prashant J. Nair

We can use a hybrid memory system consisting of DRAM and Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory (We call it DCPM in this paper) as DCPM is now commercially available since April 2019. Even if the latency for DCPM is several times higher than…

Performance · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Kazuichi Oe

Here, we show that current LLM unlearning methods inherently reduce models' robustness, causing them to misbehave even when a single non-adversarial forget-token is present in the retain-query. Toward understanding underlying causes, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Dang Huu-Tien , Hoang Thanh-Tung , Anh Bui , Minh-Phuong Nguyen , Le-Minh Nguyen , Naoya Inoue

We present Ramulator 2.0, a highly modular and extensible DRAM simulator that enables rapid and agile implementation and evaluation of design changes in the memory controller and DRAM to meet the increasing research effort in improving the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Haocong Luo , Yahya Can Tuğrul , F. Nisa Bostancı , Ataberk Olgun , A. Giray Yağlıkçı , Onur Mutlu

This paper summarizes our work on characterizing application memory error vulnerability to optimize datacenter cost via Heterogeneous-Reliability Memory (HRM), which was published in DSN 2014, and examines the work's significance and future…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Yixin Luo , Sriram Govindan , Bikash Sharma , Mark Santaniello , Justin Meza , Aman Kansal , Jie Liu , Badriddine Khessib , Kushagra Vaid , Onur Mutlu

Machine learning based malware detection techniques rely on grayscale images of malware and tends to classify malware based on the distribution of textures in graycale images. Albeit the advancement and promising results shown by machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Sanket Shukla

The security of a computer system depends on OS kernel protection. It is crucial to reveal and inspect new attacks on kernel data, as these are used by hackers. The purpose of this paper is to continue research into attacks on dynamically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Igor Korkin

Machine Learning using neural networks has received prominent attention recently because of its success in solving a wide variety of computational tasks, in particular in the field of computer vision. However, several works have drawn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 C. A. Martínez-Mejía , J. Solano , J. Breier , D. Bucko , X. Hou

Today's RKE systems implement disposable rolling codes, making every key fob button press unique, effectively preventing simple replay attacks. However, a prior attack called RollJam was proven to break all rolling code-based systems in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Levente Csikor , Hoon Wei Lim , Jun Wen Wong , Soundarya Ramesh , Rohini Poolat Parameswarath , Mun Choon Chan

Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is widely recognized as a promising emerging hardware platform for deep neural networks (DNNs). Yet, due to manufacturing limitations, current RRAM devices are highly susceptible to hardware defects,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Mingyuan Xiang , Xuhan Xie , Pedro Savarese , Xin Yuan , Michael Maire , Yanjing Li

DRAM scaling has exacerbated the RowHammer vulnerability. To counter this, JEDEC recently introduced Per Row Activation Counting (PRAC) with the Alert Back-Off protocol as an optional DDR5 feature. While promising, PRAC requires per-row…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jeonghyun Woo , Junsu Kim , Aamer Jaleel , Prashant J. Nair

Compute-in-memory (CiM) architectures promise significant improvements in energy efficiency and throughput for deep neural network acceleration by alleviating the von Neumann bottleneck. However, their reliance on emerging non-volatile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yifan Qin , Jiahao Zheng , Zheyu Yan , Wujie Wen , Xiaobo Sharon Hu , Yiyu Shi

In recent years, neural backdoor attack has been considered to be a potential security threat to deep learning systems. Such systems, while achieving the state-of-the-art performance on clean data, perform abnormally on inputs with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Anh Nguyen , Anh Tran

Ransomware core capability, unauthorized encryption, demands controls that identify and block malicious cryptographic activity without disrupting legitimate use. We present a probabilistic, risk-based access control architecture that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Kenan Begovic , Abdulaziz Al-Ali , Qutaibah Malluhi

Quantum random access memory (QRAM) is required for numerous quantum algorithms and network architectures. Previous work has shown that the ubiquitous bucket-brigade QRAM is highly resilient to arbitrary local incoherent noise channels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Rohan Mehta , Gideon Lee , Liang Jiang

We present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Counting (PRAC), described in JEDEC DDR5 specification's April 2024…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Oğuzhan Canpolat , A. Giray Yağlıkçı , Geraldo F. Oliveira , Ataberk Olgun , Oğuz Ergin , Onur Mutlu

Page Frame Cache (PFC) is a purely software cache, present in modern Linux based operating systems (OS), which stores the page frames that are recently being released by the processes running on a particular CPU. In this paper, we show that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Anirban Chakraborty , Sarani Bhattacharya , Sayandeep Saha , Debdeep Mukhopadhyay