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Differential Privacy (DP) relies on random numbers to preserve privacy, typically utilising Pseudorandom Number Generators (PRNGs) as a source of randomness. In order to allow for consistent reproducibility, testing and bug-fixing in DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Naoise Holohan

Quantum Key Distribution(QKD) thrives to achieve perfect secrecy of One time Pad (OTP) through quantum processes. One of the crucial components of QKD are Quantum Random Number Generators(QRNG) for generation of keys. Unfortunately, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Arun Mishra , Kanaka Raju Pandiri , Anupama Arjun Pandit , Lucy Sharma

Random Number Generators (RNGs) are crucial for applications ranging from cryptography to simulations. Depending on the source of randomness, RNGs are classified into Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs), True Random Number Generators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Anurag K. S. V. , Shubham Chouhan , K. Srinivasan , G. Raghavan , Kanaka Raju P

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are high-nonlinear processes, and they are key blocks in optimization of Large language models. Transformers excel at processing complex nonlinear relationships. Thus it is reasonable to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ran Li , Lingshu Zeng

In this paper, a new pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) based on chaotic iterations is proposed. This method also combines the digits of two XORshifts PRNGs. The statistical properties of this new generator are improved: the generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Christophe Guyeux , Qianxue Wang , Jacques M. Bahi

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) play an important role to ensure the security and confidentiality of image cryptographic algorithms. Their primary function is to generate a sequence of numbers that possesses unpredictability and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Takreem Haider , Saúl A. Blanco , Umar Hayat

Machine learning (ML) frameworks rely heavily on pseudorandom number generators (PRNGs) for tasks such as data shuffling, weight initialization, dropout, and optimization. Yet, the statistical quality and reproducibility of these…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Benjamin A. Antunes

The paper develops techniques in order to construct computer programs, pseudorandom number generators (PRNG), that produce uniformly distributed sequences. The paper exploits an approach that treats standard processor instructions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2011-11-15 Vladimir Anashin

Linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) based pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) has applications in a plethora of fields. The issue of being linear is generally circumvented by introducing non-linearities as per the required applications,…

A novel Mathematical Random Number Generator (MRNG) is presented here. In this case, "mathematical" refers to the fact that to construct that generator it is not necessary to resort to a physical phenomenon, such as the thermal noise of an…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-11-22 Osvaldo Skliar , Ricardo E. Monge , Sherry Gapper , Guillermo Oviedo

Although machine learning (ML) has been successful in automating various software engineering needs, software testing still remains a highly challenging topic. In this paper, we aim to improve the generative testing of software by directly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Chuan-Yung Tsai , Graham W. Taylor

We address the problem of detecting deviations of binary sequence from randomness,which is very important for random number (RNG) and pseudorandom number generators (PRNG). Namely, we consider a null hypothesis $H_0$ that a given bit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 B. Ya. Ryabko , V. A. Monarev

The advantages of quantum random number generators (QRNGs) over pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are normally attributed to the nature of quantum measurements. This is often seen as implying the superiority of the sequences of bits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Nan Huang

This paper targets to search so-called \emph{good} generators by doing a brief survey over the generators developed in the history of pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs), verify their claims and rank them based on strong empirical tests…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Kamalika Bhattacharjee , Sukanta Das

Emergence of stochastic simulations as an extensively used computational tool for scientific purposes intensified the need for more accurate ways of generating sufficiently long sequences of uncorrelated random numbers. Even though several…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2014-08-14 Ayse Ferhan Yesil , M. Cemal Yalabik

Random number generators (RNG) are essential elements in many cryptographic systems. True random number generators (TRNG) rely upon sources of randomness from natural processes such as those arising from quantum mechanics phenomena. We…

Random number generators (RNGs) are notoriously challenging to build and test, especially for cryptographic applications. While statistical tests cannot definitively guarantee an RNG's output quality, they are a powerful verification tool…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Cameron Foreman , Richie Yeung , Florian J. Curchod

Pseudo-rehearsal allows neural networks to learn a sequence of tasks without forgetting how to perform in earlier tasks. Preventing forgetting is achieved by introducing a generative network which can produce data from previously seen tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Craig Atkinson , Brendan McCane , Lech Szymanski , Anthony Robins

Pseudorandom number generation (PRNG) is a key element in hardware security platforms like field-programmable gate array FPGA circuits. In this article, 18 PRNGs belonging in 4 families (xorshift, LFSR, TGFSR, and LCG) are physically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-28 Mohammed Bakiri , Jean-François Couchot , Christophe Guyeux

Real-world sequential decision making problems commonly involve partial observability, which requires the agent to maintain a memory of history in order to infer the latent states, plan and make good decisions. Coping with partial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Yonathan Efroni , Chi Jin , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Sobhan Miryoosefi