English
Related papers

Related papers: Data-Driven Synthesis of Provably Sound Side Chann…

200 papers

Performing a comprehensive side-channel analysis evaluation of small embedded devices is a process known for its variability and complexity. In real-world experimental setups, the results are largely influenced by a huge amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Unai Rioja , Servio Paguada , Lejla Batina , Igor Armendariz

In this paper, we introduce a data-driven framework for synthesis of provably-correct controllers for general nonlinear switched systems under complex specifications. The focus is on systems with unknown disturbances whose effects on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-17 Ibon Gracia , Dimitris Boskos , Luca Laurenti , Morteza Lahijanian

We develop a learning-based control algorithm for unknown dynamical systems under very severe data limitations. Specifically, the algorithm has access to streaming and noisy data only from a single and ongoing trial. It accomplishes such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Franck Djeumou , Ufuk Topcu

Static analysis is a growing application of software engineering, leading to a range of essential security tools, bug-finding tools, as well as software verification. Recent years show an increase of universal static analysis tools that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Avi Hayoun , Veselin Raychev , Jack Hair

This paper addresses source tracing in synthetic speech-identifying generative systems behind manipulated audio via speaker recognition-inspired pipelines. While prior work focuses on spoofing detection, source tracing lacks robust…

This paper develops a method to construct robust positively invariant (RPI) tube sets from finite noisy input-state data of an unknown linear time-invariant (LTI) system, yielding tubes that can be directly embedded in tube-based robust…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Chi Wang , David Angeli

Developers today use significant amounts of open source code, surfacing the need for ways to automatically audit and upgrade library dependencies, and giving rise to the subfield of Software Composition Analysis (SCA). SCA products are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Darius Foo , Jason Yeo , Hao Xiao , Asankhaya Sharma

Static analysis tools are widely used to detect software bugs and vulnerabilities but often struggle with scalability and efficiency in complex codebases. Traditional approaches rely on manually crafted annotations -- labeling functions as…

This paper presents a linear-programming based algorithm to perform data-driven stabilizing control of linear positive systems. A set of state-input-transition observations is collected up to magnitude-bounded noise. A state feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-23 Jared Miller , Tianyu Dai , Mario Sznaier , Bahram Shafai

We consider the problem of synthesizing a dynamic output-feedback controller for a linear system, using solely input-output data corrupted by measurement noise. To handle input-output data, an auxiliary representation of the original system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Lidong Li , Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Nima Monshizadeh

In recent years a new class of side-channel attacks has emerged. Instead of targeting device emissions during dynamic computation, adversaries now frequently exploit the leakage or response behaviour of integrated circuits in a static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Robert Dumitru , Thorben Moos , Andrew Wabnitz , Yuval Yarom

Modern control is implemented with digital microcontrollers, embedded within a dynamical plant that represents physical components. We present a new algorithm based on counter-example guided inductive synthesis that automates the design of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-17 Alessandro Abate , Iury Bessa , Dario Cattaruzza , Lucas Cordeiro , Cristina David , Pascal Kesseli , Daniel Kroening

The widespread adoption of TLS 1.3 and QUIC has rendered payload content invisible, shifting traffic analysis toward side-channel features. However, rigorous justification for why side-channel leakage is inevitable in encrypted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Guangjie Liu , Guang Chen , Weiwei Liu

Data-driven methods have become paramount in modern systems and control problems characterized by growing levels of complexity. In safety-critical environments, deploying these methods requires rigorous guarantees, a need that has motivated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Dario Paccagnan , Daniel Marks , Marco C. Campi , Simone Garatti

Recent advances in generating synthetic captions based on audio and related metadata allow using the information contained in natural language as input for other audio tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel method to guide a sound event…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

Deployed large language models (LLMs) often rely on speculative decoding, a technique that generates and verifies multiple candidate tokens in parallel, to improve throughput and latency. In this work, we reveal a new side-channel whereby…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jiankun Wei , Abdulrahman Abdulrazzag , Tianchen Zhang , Adel Muursepp , Gururaj Saileshwar

Static analysis remains one of the most popular approaches for detecting and correcting poor or vulnerable program code. It involves the examination of code listings, test results, or other documentation to identify errors, violations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Fitzroy D. Nembhard , Marco M. Carvalho

Smart vehicles produce large amounts of data, much of which is sensitive and at risk of privacy breaches. As attackers increasingly exploit anonymised metadata within these datasets to profile drivers, it's important to find solutions that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Krish Parikh

We introduce transductive program synthesis, a new formulation of the program synthesis task that explicitly leverages test inputs during synthesis. While prior approaches to program synthesis--whether based on natural language descriptions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Kang-il Lee , Jahyun Koo , Seunghyun Yoon , Minbeom Kim , Hyukhun Koh , Dongryeol Lee , Kyomin Jung

Static analysis has established itself as a weapon of choice for detecting security vulnerabilities. Taint analysis in particular is a very general and powerful technique, where security policies are expressed in terms of forbidden flows,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Saikat Dutta , Diego Garbervetsky , Shuvendu Lahiri , Max Schäfer