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Compiler optimization level recognition can be applied to vulnerability discovery and binary analysis. Due to the exists of many different compilation optimization options, the difference in the contents of the binary file is very…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shouguo Yang , Zhiqiang Shi , Guodong Zhang , Mingxuan Li , Yuan Ma , Limin Sun

Demonstrating quantum advantage requires experimental implementation of a computational task that is hard to achieve using state-of-the-art classical systems. One approach is to perform sampling from a probability distribution associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-03 Xun Gao , Marcin Kalinowski , Chi-Ning Chou , Mikhail D. Lukin , Boaz Barak , Soonwon Choi

In this paper, we study binary constrained codes that are resilient to bit-flip errors and erasures. In our first approach, we compute the sizes of constrained subcodes of linear codes. Since there exist well-known linear codes that achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-20 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Navin Kashyap

Binary code analysis plays an essential role in cybersecurity, facilitating reverse engineering to reveal the inner workings of programs in the absence of source code. Traditional approaches, such as static and dynamic analysis, extract…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jiyong Uhm , Minseok Kim , Michalis Polychronakis , Hyungjoon Koo

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) is not only essential for security tasks such as vulnerability identification but also for code copying detection, yet it remains challenging due to binary stripping and diverse compilation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Li Zhou , Marc Dacier , Charalambos Konstantinou

This paper studies the coordinated beamforming (CoBF) design for the multiple-input single-output interference channel, provided that only channel distribution information is known to the transmitters. The problem under consideration is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Wei-Chiang Li , Tsung-Hui Chang , Chong-Yung Chi

Security experts reverse engineer (decompile) binary code to identify critical security vulnerabilities. The limited access to source code in vital systems - such as firmware, drivers, and proprietary software used in Critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dylan Manuel , Nafis Tanveer Islam , Joseph Khoury , Ana Nunez , Elias Bou-Harb , Peyman Najafirad

Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatibility is essential for system or software updates to ensure that libraries continue to function. Tools that can assess a binary or library ABI can thus be used to make predictions about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Vanessa Sochat , Tim Haines

Surgical instrument segmentation is a key component in developing context-aware operating rooms. Existing works on this task heavily rely on the supervision of a large amount of labeled data, which involve laborious and expensive human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Daochang Liu , Yuhui Wei , Tingting Jiang , Yizhou Wang , Rulin Miao , Fei Shan , Ziyu Li

High-resolution printed circuit board (PCB) inspection suffers from resolution collapse when full-board images are resized to standard detector inputs: micro-scale defects shrink to a few pixels and are missed. Tile-based inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani , Alale Rezvani Boroujeni , Ali Amini , Jiann Shiun Yuan

Bilevel optimization has arisen as a powerful tool for many machine learning problems such as meta-learning, hyperparameter optimization, and reinforcement learning. In this paper, we investigate the nonconvex-strongly-convex bilevel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Kaiyi Ji , Junjie Yang , Yingbin Liang

The malfunction of safety-critical systems may cause damage to people and the environment. Software within those systems is rigorously designed and verified according to domain specific guidance, such as ISO26262 for automotive safety. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Adam Nellis , Pascal Kesseli , Philippa Ryan Conmy , Daniel Kroening , Peter Schrammel , Michael Tautschnig

Kernel density estimation is a well known method involving a smoothing parameter (the bandwidth) that needs to be tuned by the user. Although this method has been widely used the bandwidth selection remains a challenging issue in terms of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Suzanne Varet , Claire Lacour , Pascal Massart , Vincent Rivoirard

Cyber-Physical Systems have played an essential role in our daily lives, providing critical services such as power and water, whose operability, availability, and reliability must be ensured. The C programming language, prevalent in CPS…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Luis Ferreirinha , Iberia Medeiros

Sequence models for binary analysis are bottlenecked by byte-level tokenization: raw bytes waste precious context window capacity for transformers and other neural network architectures, and many existing text-oriented tokenizers fail on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Michael J. Bommarito

Bit-serial computation facilitates bit-wise sequential data processing, offering numerous benefits, such as a reduced area footprint and dynamically-adaptive computational precision. It has emerged as a prominent approach, particularly in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Man Shi , Vikram Jain , Antony Joseph , Maurice Meijer , Marian Verhelst

The Alliance for Open Media has recently initiated coding tool exploration activities towards the next-generation video coding beyond AV1. With this regard, this paper presents a package of coding tools that have been investigated,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Xin Zhao , Liang Zhao , Madhu Krishnan , Yixin Du , Shan Liu , Debargha Mukherjee , Yaowu Xu , Adrian Grange

While the performance of machine learning systems has experienced significant improvement in recent years, relatively little attention has been paid to the fundamental question: to what extent can we improve our models? This paper provides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ryota Ushio , Takashi Ishida , Masashi Sugiyama

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Leonardo Regano , Daniele Canavese , Cataldo Basile , Marco Torchiano

While much of the current research in deep learning-based vulnerability detection relies on disassembled binaries, this paper explores the feasibility of extracting features directly from raw x86-64 machine code. Although assembly language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mitchell Petingola