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The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerabilities. We have developed a tool for synthesizing microarchitecture-specific programs capable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Caroline Trippel , Daniel Lustig , Margaret Martonosi

Ensembling has proven to be a powerful technique for boosting model performance, uncertainty estimation, and robustness in supervised learning. Advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) enable leveraging large unlabeled corpora for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yangjun Ruan , Saurabh Singh , Warren Morningstar , Alexander A. Alemi , Sergey Ioffe , Ian Fischer , Joshua V. Dillon

Adversarial robustness is one of the essential safety criteria for guaranteeing the reliability of machine learning models. While various adversarial robustness testing approaches were introduced in the last decade, we note that most of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-04 Giuseppe Castiglione , Gavin Ding , Masoud Hashemi , Christopher Srinivasa , Ga Wu

Embedding as a Service (EaaS) has become a widely adopted solution, which offers feature extraction capabilities for addressing various downstream tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Prior studies have shown that EaaS can be prone…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Anudeex Shetty , Yue Teng , Ke He , Qiongkai Xu

Skim is a speculative execution framework for web agents that exploits the predictable structure of purpose-built websites. Today's web-agent expense is not intrinsic to the tasks but a property of how agents are composed: frontier-model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Mike Wong , Kevin Hsieh , Suman Nath , Ravi Netravali

WebAssembly (Wasm) has emerged as a powerful technology for executing high-performance code and reusing legacy code in web browsers. With its increasing adoption, ensuring the reliability of WebAssembly code becomes paramount. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sara Baradaran , Liyan Huang , Mukund Raghothaman , Weihang Wang

The proliferation of GPS-enabled devices has led to the development of numerous location-based services. These services need to process massive amounts of spatial data in real-time. The current scale of spatial data cannot be handled using…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Anas Daghistani , Walid G. Aref , Arif Ghafoor , Ahmed R. Mahmood

This research proposes a language independent intra-process framework for object based composition of unmodified code modules. Intuitively, the two major programming models, threads and processes, can be considered as extremes along a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Srinidhi Varadarajan

Meltdown and Spectre exploit microarchitectural changes the CPU makes during transient out-of-order execution. Using side-channel techniques, these attacks enable leaking arbitrary data from memory. As state-of-the-art software mitigations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Michael Schwarz , Claudio Canella , Lukas Giner , Daniel Gruss

Stencil computations are a fundamental kernel in scientific computing, critical for simulations in domains such as fluid dynamics and climate modeling. However, these computations are often memory-bound on traditional High-Performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Elia Belli , Daniele De Sensi

Recent work has shown that adversarial Windows malware samples - referred to as adversarial EXEmples in this paper - can bypass machine learning-based detection relying on static code analysis by perturbing relatively few input bytes. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Luca Demetrio , Scott E. Coull , Battista Biggio , Giovanni Lagorio , Alessandro Armando , Fabio Roli

Web attack detection is the first line of defense for securing web applications, designed to preemptively identify malicious activities. Deep learning-based approaches are increasingly popular for their advantages: automatically learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kangqiang Luo , Yi Xie , Shiqian Zhao , Jing Pan

Integrity checking is ubiquitous in data networks, but not all network traffic needs integrity protection. Many applications can tolerate slightly damaged data while still working acceptably, trading accuracy versus efficiency to save time…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Benjamin Ransford , Luis Ceze

System prompts are critical for guiding the behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet they often contain proprietary logic or sensitive information, making them a prime target for extraction attacks. Adversarial queries can successfully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Huseein Jawad , Nicolas Brunel

WebAssembly is increasingly used as the compilation target for cross-platform applications. In this paper, we investigate whether one can rely on the security measures enforced by existing C compilers when compiling C programs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Quentin Stiévenart , Coen De Roover , Mohammad Ghafari

The globalized semiconductor supply chain has made Hardware Trojans (HT) a significant security threat to embedded systems, necessitating the design of efficient and adaptable detection mechanisms. Despite promising machine learning-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zhixin Pan , Ziyu Shu , Linh Nguyen , Amberbir Alemayoh

Web Application Firewalls are widely used in production environments to mitigate security threats like SQL injections. Many industrial products rely on signature-based techniques, but machine learning approaches are becoming more and more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Luca Demetrio , Andrea Valenza , Gabriele Costa , Giovanni Lagorio

In this paper, a new approach to Spread Spectrum (SS) watermarking technique is introduced. This problem is particularly interesting in the field of modern multimedia applications like internet when copyright protection of digital image is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-12 T. S. Das , V. H. Mankar , S. K. Sarkar

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have been introduced as essential and popular security gates that inspect incoming HTTP traffic to filter out malicious requests and provide defenses against a diverse array of web-based threats. Evading…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Seyed Ali Akhavani , Bahruz Jabiyev , Ben Kallus , Cem Topcuoglu , Sergey Bratus , Engin Kirda

Compilers face an intrinsic tradeoff between compilation speed and code quality. The tradeoff is particularly stark in a dynamic setting where JIT compilation time contributes to application runtime. Many systems now employ multiple…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Ben L. Titzer