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Recreating cyber-attack alert data with a high level of fidelity is challenging due to the intricate interaction between features, non-homogeneity of alerts, and potential for rare yet critical samples. Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Christopher Sweet , Stephen Moskal , Shanchieh Jay Yang

Side-channel attacks are a security exploit that take advantage of information leakage. They use measurement and analysis of physical parameters to reverse engineer and extract secrets from a system. Power analysis attacks in particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yun Chen , Ali Hajiabadi , Romain Poussier , Andreas Diavastos , Shivam Bhasin , Trevor E. Carlson

In this paper, we study incremental LTLf synthesis -- a form of reactive synthesis where the goals are given incrementally while in execution. In other words, the protagonist agent is already executing a strategy for a certain goal when it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Giuseppe De Giacomo , Yves Lespérance , Gianmarco Parretti , Fabio Patrizi , Moshe Y. Vardi

Automatically constructing a program based on given specifications has been studied for decades. Despite the advances in the field of Program Synthesis, the current approaches still synthesize a block of code snippet and leave the task of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Ali Shokri

The transient-execution attack Meltdown leaks sensitive information by transiently accessing inaccessible data during out-of-order execution. Although Meltdown is fixed in hardware for recent CPU generations, most currently-deployed CPUs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Daniel Weber , Fabian Thomas , Lukas Gerlach , Ruiyi Zhang , Michael Schwarz

We present a method of automatically synthesizing steps to solve search problems. Given a specification of a search problem, our approach uses symbolic execution to analyze the specification in order to extract a set of constraints which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Mara Downing , Abtin Molavi , Lucas Bang

The design of additive imperceptible perturbations to the inputs of deep classifiers to maximize their misclassification rates is a central focus of adversarial machine learning. An alternative approach is to synthesize adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ismail R. Alkhouri , Alvaro Velasquez , George K. Atia

Software-defined networking (SDN) is revolutionizing the networking industry, but current SDN programming platforms do not provide automated mechanisms for updating global configurations on the fly. Implementing updates by hand is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Jedidiah McClurg , Hossein Hojjat , Pavol Cerny , Nate Foster

Discovering new vulnerabilities and implementing security and privacy measures are important to protect systems and data against physical attacks. One such vulnerability is impedance, an inherent property of a device that can be exploited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Md Sadik Awal , Md Tauhidur Rahman

*Data Synthesis* is a promising way to train a small model with very little labeled data. One approach for data synthesis is to leverage the rich knowledge from large language models to synthesize pseudo training examples for small models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ruida Wang , Wangchunshu Zhou , Mrinmaya Sachan

In recent years, various deep learning techniques have been exploited in side channel attacks, with the anticipation of obtaining more appreciable attack results. Most of them concentrate on improving network architectures or putting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhimin Luo , Mengce Zheng , Ping Wang , Minhui Jin , Jiajia Zhang , Honggang Hu

Timing side channels pose a significant threat to the security and privacy of software applications. We propose an approach for mitigating this problem by decreasing the strength of the side channels as measured by entropy-based objectives,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Pavol Cerny , Ashutosh Trivedi

Side-channel information leakage is a known limitation of SGX. Researchers have demonstrated that secret-dependent information can be extracted from enclave execution through page-fault access patterns. Consequently, various recent research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Ferdinand Brasser , Urs Müller , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Malware attacks have a significant negative impact on organizations of varied scales in the field of cybersecurity. Recently, malware researchers have increasingly turned to machine learning techniques to combat sophisticated obfuscation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Tiffany Bao , Kylie Trousil , Quang Duy Tran , Fabio Di Troia , Younghee Park

Semi-supervised learning that leverages synthetic data for training has been widely adopted for developing automatic post-editing (APE) models due to the lack of training data. With this aim, we focus on data-synthesis methods to create…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wonkee Lee , Seong-Hwan Heo , Jong-Hyeok Lee

Side-channel analysis (SCA) poses a real-world threat by exploiting unintentional physical signals to extract secret information from secure devices. Evaluation labs also use the same techniques to certify device security. In recent years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sengim Karayalçin , Marina Krček , Stjepan Picek

Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) enables efficient search capabilities over encrypted data, allowing users to maintain privacy while utilizing cloud storage. However, SSE schemes are vulnerable to leakage attacks that exploit access…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Joshua Chiu , Partha Protim Paul , Zahin Wahab

We propose, implement, and evaluate a new algorithm for releasing answers to very large numbers of statistical queries like $k$-way marginals, subject to differential privacy. Our algorithm makes adaptive use of a continuous relaxation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Sergul Aydore , William Brown , Michael Kearns , Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Luca Melis , Aaron Roth , Ankit Siva

Language agents increasingly act as web-enabled systems that search, browse, and synthesize information from diverse sources. However, these sources can include unreliable or adversarial content, and the robustness of agents to adversarial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shrey Shah , Levent Ozgur

Over the past decade, side-channels have proven to be significant and practical threats to modern computing systems. Recent attacks have all exploited the underlying shared hardware. While practical, mounting such a complicated attack is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Mehmet Sinan Inci , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar