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Academic examination systems worldwide continue to rely on centralised, opaque record-keeping that is often vulnerable to credential forgery, result tampering, examiner bias, and the absence of transparent re-evaluation pathways. Existing…

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We advance the state-of-the-art in automated symbolic analysis for e-voting protocols by introducing three conditions that together are sufficient to guarantee ballot secrecy. There are two main advantages to using our conditions, compared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Cas Cremers , Lucca Hirschi

When validating formal models, sizable effort goes into ensuring two types of properties: safety properties (nothing bad happens) and liveness properties (something good occurs eventually. Event-B supports checking safety properties all…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Sebastian Stock , Michael Leuschel , Atif Mashkoor

Machine learning models are increasingly used in societal applications, yet legal and privacy concerns demand that they very often be kept confidential. Consequently, there is a growing distrust about the fairness properties of these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chhavi Yadav , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Dan Boneh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

This paper presents a secure aggregation system Armadillo that has disruptive resistance against adversarial clients, such that any coalition of malicious clients (within the tolerated threshold) can affect the aggregation result only by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Yiping Ma , Yue Guo , Harish Karthikeyan , Antigoni Polychroniadou

Neural network (NN) verification aims to formally verify properties of NNs, which is crucial for ensuring the behavior of NN-based models in safety-critical applications. In recent years, the community has developed many NN verifiers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xingjian Zhou , Keyi Shen , Andy Xu , Hongji Xu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Huan Zhang , Zhouxing Shi

Adversarial robustness is essential for security and reliability of machine learning systems. However, adversarial robustness enhanced by defense algorithms is easily erased as the neural network's weights update to learn new tasks. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Xiaolei Ru , Xiaowei Cao , Zijia Liu , Jack Murdoch Moore , Xin-Ya Zhang , Xia Zhu , Wenjia Wei , Gang Yan

Over the past decade, the Bitcoin P2P network protocol has become a reference model for all modern cryptocurrencies. While nodes in this network are known, the connections among them are kept hidden, as it is commonly believed that this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Federico Franzoni , Xavier Salleras , Vanesa Daza

The intrinsic non-locality of correlations in Quantum Mechanics allow us to certify the behaviour of a quantum mechanism in a device independent way. In particular, we present a new protocol that allows an unbounded amount of randomness to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Brian Coyle , Matty J. Hoban , Elham Kashefi

Federated learning algorithms are developed both for efficiency reasons and to ensure the privacy and confidentiality of personal and business data, respectively. Despite no data being shared explicitly, recent studies showed that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Balázs Pejó , Gergely Biczók

Cryptography promises four information security objectives, namely, confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation, to support trillions of transactions annually in the digital economy. Efficient digital signatures, ensuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Hua-Lei Yin , Yao Fu , Chen-Long Li , Chen-Xun Weng , Bing-Hong Li , Jie Gu , Yu-Shuo Lu , Shan Huang , Zeng-Bing Chen

Dual-submission homework, where students submit work, receive feedback and then revise has gained attention as a way to foster reflection and discourage reliance on online answer repositories. This study analyzes 13 years of exam data from…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Madhur Dixit , Kavya Lalbahadur Joshi , Kaveri Bhalchandra Konde , Edward F. Gehringer

Most computer science conferences rely on paper bidding to assign reviewers to papers. Although paper bidding enables high-quality assignments in days of unprecedented submission numbers, it also opens the door for dishonest reviewers to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ruihan Wu , Chuan Guo , Felix Wu , Rahul Kidambi , Laurens van der Maaten , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Currently, reinforcement learning (RL), especially deep RL, has received more and more attention in the research area. However, the security of RL has been an obvious problem due to the attack manners becoming mature. In order to defend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Jiarui Yao , Simon Shaolei Du

Existing regulations prohibit model developers from accessing protected attributes (gender, race, etc.), often resulting in fairness assessments on populations without knowing their protected groups. In such scenarios, institutions often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Faisal Hamman , Jiahao Chen , Sanghamitra Dutta

Bisimulation is crucial for verifying process equivalence in probabilistic systems. This paper presents a novel logical framework for analyzing bisimulation in probabilistic parameterized systems, namely, infinite families of finite-state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Chih-Duo Hong , Anthony W. Lin , Philipp Rümmer , Rupak Majumdar

Complex decision-making problems such as the privacy policy selection when sharing content in online social networks can significantly benefit from artificial intelligence systems. With the use of Computational Argumentation, it is possible…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Ramon Ruiz-Dolz , Jose Alemany , Stella Heras , Ana García-Fornes

Online voting is attractive for convenience and accessibility, but is more susceptible to voter coercion and vote buying than in-person voting. One mitigation is to give voters fake voting credentials that they can yield to a coercer. Fake…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Louis-Henri Merino , Alaleh Azhir , Haoqian Zhang , Simone Colombo , Bernhard Tellenbach , Vero Estrada-Galiñanes , Bryan Ford

High voter turnout in elections and referendums is very desirable in order to ensure a robust democracy. Secure electronic voting is a vision for the future of elections and referendums. Such a system can counteract factors that hinder…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Maximilian Schiedermeier , Omar Hasan , Tobias Mayer , Lionel Brunie , Harald Kosch

Collecting anonymous opinions finds various applications ranging from simple whistleblowing, releasing secretive information, to complex forms of voting, where participants rank candidates by order of preferences. Unfortunately, as far as…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Christian Cachin , Daniel Collins , Tyler Crain , Vincent Gramoli