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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are utilized in numerous image processing, object detection, and video analysis tasks and need to be implemented using hardware accelerators to achieve practical speed. Logic locking is one of the most popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Jingbo Zhou , Xinmiao Zhang

Modern circuits face various threats like reverse engineering, theft of intellectual property (IP), side-channel attacks, etc. Here, we present a novel approach for IP protection based on logic encryption (LE). Unlike established schemes…

Keyloggers remain a serious threat in modern cybersecurity, silently capturing user keystrokes to steal credentials and sensitive information. Traditional defenses focus mainly on detection and removal, which can halt malicious activity but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Md Sajidul Islam Sajid , Shihab Ahmed , Ryan Sosnoski

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging computing paradigm that represents, manipulates, and communicates data using very long random vectors (aka hypervectors). Among different hardware platforms capable of executing HDC…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Robert Guirado , Abbas Rahimi , Geethan Karunaratne , Eduard Alarcón , Abu Sebastian , Sergi Abadal

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) facilitates privacy-preserving computation between multiple parties without leaking private information. While most secure deep learning techniques utilize MPC operations to achieve feasible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ke Lin , Yasir Glani , Ping Luo

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an increasingly popular computing paradigm with immense potential for future intelligent applications. Although the main ideas already took form in the 1990s, HDC recently gained significant attention,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Pieter Dewulf , Bernard De Baets , Michiel Stock

Overparameterized machine learning (ML) methods such as neural networks may be prohibitively resource intensive for devices with limited computational capabilities. Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging resource efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Nikita Zeulin , Olga Galinina , Ravikumar Balakrishnan , Nageen Himayat , Sergey Andreev

Machine learning-based hardware malware detectors (HMDs) offer a potential game changing advantage in defending systems against malware. However, HMDs suffer from adversarial attacks, can be effectively reverse-engineered and subsequently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Md Shohidul Islam , Ihsen Alouani , Khaled N. Khasawneh

With the rapid growth of IoT devices, ensuring robust network security has become a critical challenge. Traditional intrusion detection systems (IDSs) often face limitations in detecting sophisticated attacks within high-dimensional and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ghazal Ghajari , Ashutosh Ghimire , Elaheh Ghajari , Fathi Amsaad

Code-reuse attacks have become a kind of common attack method, in which attackers use the existing code in the program to hijack the control flow. Most existing defenses focus on control flow integrity (CFI), code randomization, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xiaoqi Song , Wenjie Lv , Haipeng Qu , Lingyun Ying

Publicly available collections of drug-like molecules have grown to comprise 10s of billions of possibilities in recent history due to advances in chemical synthesis. Traditional methods for identifying "hit" molecules from a large…

Outsourcing in semiconductor industry opened up venues for faster and cost-effective chip manufacturing. However, this also introduced untrusted entities with malicious intent, to steal intellectual property (IP), overproduce the circuits,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Nimisha Limaye , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Hyperdimensional computing (HDC) suits memory, energy, and reliability-constrained systems, yet the standard "one prototype per class" design requires $O(CD)$ memory (with $C$ classes and dimensionality $D$). Prior compaction reduces $D$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Sanggeon Yun , Hyunwoo Oh , Ryozo Masukawa , Pietro Mercati , Nathaniel D. Bastian , Mohsen Imani

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a paradigm for conducting machine learning across broad and decentralized datasets, promising enhanced privacy by obviating the need for direct data sharing. However, recent studies show that attackers can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Xueluan Gong , Yuji Wang , Shuaike Li , Mengyuan Sun , Songze Li , Qian Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam , Chen Chen

Consumer and defense systems demanded design and manufacturing of electronics with increased performance, compared to their predecessors. As such systems became ubiquitous in a plethora of domains, their application surface increased, thus…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Abhijitt Dhavlle

Logic locking (LL) has gained attention as a promising intellectual property protection measure for integrated circuits. However, recent attacks, facilitated by machine learning (ML), have shown the potential to predict the correct key in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yinghua Hu , Kaixin Yang , Subhajit Dutta Chowdhury , Pierluigi Nuzzo

We present HyperSeg, a hyperdimensional computing (HDC) approach to unsupervised dialogue topic segmentation. HDC is a class of vector symbolic architectures that leverages the probabilistic orthogonality of randomly drawn vectors at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Seongmin Park , Jinkyu Seo , Jihwa Lee

This paper presents a quantum algorithm for efficiently decoding hypervectors, a crucial process in extracting atomic elements from hypervectors - an essential task in Hyperdimensional Computing (HDC) models for interpretable learning and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Prathyush Poduval , Zhuowen Zou , Alvaro Velasquez , Mohsen Imani

Multi-party computation (MPC) is a branch of cryptography where multiple non-colluding parties execute a well designed protocol to securely compute a function. With the non-colluding party assumption, MPC has a cryptographic guarantee that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Wittawat Jitkrittum , Michal Lukasik , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Felix Yu , Gang Wang

A deep learning system typically suffers from a lack of reproducibility that is partially rooted in hardware or software implementation details. The irreproducibility leads to skepticism in deep learning technologies and it can hinder them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jiahao Pang , Muhammad Asad Lodhi , Junghyun Ahn , Yuning Huang , Dong Tian