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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into IT infrastructures, where they process user data according to predefined instructions. However, conventional LLMs remain vulnerable to prompt injection, where malicious users…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ruofan Liu , Yun Lin , Zhiyong Huang , Jin Song Dong

Libraries for supervised classification have enabled the wide-spread usage of machine learning methods. Existing libraries, such as scikit-learn, caret, and mlpack, implement techniques based on the classical empirical risk minimization…

JAX-Privacy is a library designed to simplify the deployment of robust and performant mechanisms for differentially private machine learning. Guided by design principles of usability, flexibility, and efficiency, JAX-Privacy serves both…

Access control is an important component for web services such as a cloud. Current clouds tend to design the access control mechanism together with the policy language on their own. It leads to two issues: (i) a cloud user has to learn…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Yang Luo , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu

Management of information is an important aspect of every application. This includes, for example, protecting user data against breaches (like the one reported in the news about 50 million Facebook profiles being harvested for Cambridge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-01 David H. Lorenz , Boaz Rosenan

Reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly improved the reasoning ability of large language models. However, current reward models underperform in challenging reasoning scenarios and predominant RL training paradigms rely on rule-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Meng Zhou , Bei Li , Jiahao Liu , Xiaowen Shi , Yang Bai , Rongxiang Weng , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai

Open-source software supply chain security relies heavily on assessing affected versions of library vulnerabilities. While prior studies have leveraged exploits for verifying vulnerability affected versions, they point out a key limitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zirui Chen , Qi Zhan , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

Quorum systems are a powerful mechanism for ensuring the consistency of replicated data. Production systems usually opt for majority quorums due to their simplicity and fault tolerance, but majority quorum systems provide poor throughput…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Michael Whittaker , Aleksey Charapko , Joseph M. Hellerstein , Heidi Howard , Ion Stoica

This work presents MLIR, a novel approach to building reusable and extensible compiler infrastructure. MLIR aims to address software fragmentation, improve compilation for heterogeneous hardware, significantly reduce the cost of building…

The verification of concurrent programs under weak-memory models is a burgeoning effort, owing to the increasing adoption of weak memory in concurrent software and hardware. Release/Acquire has become the standard model for high-performance…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Giovanna Kobus Conrado , Andreas Pavlogiannis

To take full advantage of a specific hardware target, performance engineers need to gain control on compilers in order to leverage their domain knowledge about the program and hardware. Yet, modern compilers are poorly controlled, usually…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Martin Paul Lücke , Oleksandr Zinenko , William S. Moses , Michel Steuwer , Albert Cohen

Web applications often include third-party content and scripts to personalize a user's online experience. These scripts have unrestricted access to a user's private data stored in the browser's persistent storage like cookies, localstorage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Gayatri Priyadarsini Kancherla , Dishank Goel , Abhishek Bichhawat

Progressive Web Applications (PWAs) blend the advantages of web and native apps, offering features like offline access, push notifications, and installability. Beyond these, modern PWAs are increasingly granted system-level capabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mengxiao Wang , Guofei Gu

We propose a new formal criterion for evaluating secure compilation schemes for unsafe languages, expressing end-to-end security guarantees for software components that may become compromised after encountering undefined behavior---for…

Self-evolving skill libraries face a silent failure mode we term \emph{library drift}: unbounded skill accumulation without outcome-driven lifecycle management causes retrieval degradation, false-positive injections, and performance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xing Zhang , Yanwei Cui , Guanghui Wang , Ziyuan Li , Wei Qiu , Bing Zhu , Peiyang He

Software vulnerabilities in access control models can represent a serious threat in a system. In fact, OWASP lists broken access control as number 5 in severity among the top 10 vulnerabilities. In this paper, we study the permission model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Atheer Abu Zaid , Manar H. Alalfi , Ali Miri

Private information retrieval (PIR) is a cryptographic primitive that allows a client to securely query one or multiple servers without revealing their specific interests. In spite of their strong security guarantees, current PIR…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mpoki Mwaisela , Peterson Yuhala , Pascal Felber , Valerio Schiavoni

The manual migration between different third-party libraries represents a challenge for software developers. Developers typically need to explore both libraries Application Programming Interfaces, along with reading their documentation, in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Hussein Alrubaye , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Igor Khokhlov , Leon Reznik , Ali Ouni , Jason Mcgoff

Library-based methods are known to be very effective for fast motion planning by adapting an experience retrieved from a precomputed library. This article presents CoverLib, a principled approach for constructing and utilizing such a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hirokazu Ishida , Naoki Hiraoka , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

Permission systems which restrict access to system resources are a well-established technology in operating systems, especially for smartphones. However, as such systems are implemented in the operating system they can at most manage access…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Lukas Gehring , Sebastian Rehms , Florian Tschorsch