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Understanding communication behavior in modern system-on-chip (SoC) designs is critical for functional verification, performance analysis, and post-silicon debugging. Communication traces capture message exchanges among system components…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Bardia Nadimi , Hao Zheng

Searchable encryption (SE) is one of the key enablers for building encrypted databases. It allows a cloud server to search over encrypted data without decryption. Dynamic SE additionally includes data addition and deletion operations to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Viet Vo , Shangqi Lai , Xingliang Yuan , Shi-Feng Sun , Surya Nepal , Joseph K. Liu

Current static verification techniques support a wide range of programs. However, such techniques only support complete and detailed specifications, which places an undue burden on users. To solve this problem, prior work proposed gradual…

This paper presents a detailed evaluation of the efficiency of software-only techniques to mitigate SEU and SET in microprocessors. A set of well-known rules is presented and implemented automatically to transform an unprotected program…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Jose Rodrigo Azambuja , Fernando Sousa , Lucas Rosa , Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt

Symbolic execution is a classical program analysis technique used to show that programs satisfy or violate given specifications. In this work we generalize symbolic execution to support program analysis for relational specifications in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Gian Pietro Farina , Stephen Chong , Marco Gaboardi

A protocol for two-party secure function evaluation (2P-SFE) aims to allow the parties to learn the output of function $f$ of their private inputs, while leaking nothing more. In a sense, such a protocol realizes a trusted oracle that…

We present safe active incremental feature selection~(SAIF) to scale up the computation of LASSO solutions. SAIF does not require a solution from a heavier penalty parameter as in sequential screening or updating the full model for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Shaogang Ren , Jianhua Z. Huang , Shuai Huang , Xiaoning Qian

The ever increasing popularity and availability of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) had a stark influence on microarchitectural attack research in academia, as their strong attacker model both boosts existing attack vectors and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Luca Wilke , Jan Wichelmann , Anja Rabich , Thomas Eisenbarth

Multiple successful compositional symbolic execution (CSE) tools and platforms exploit separation logic (SL) for compositional verification and/or incorrectness separation logic (ISL) for compositional bug-finding, including VeriFast,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Andreas Lööw , Seung Hoon Park , Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho , Sacha-Élie Ayoun , Opale Sjöstedt , Philippa Gardner

We present DataFlow, a computational framework for building, testing, and deploying high-performance machine learning systems on unbounded time-series data. Traditional data science workflows assume finite datasets and require substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Giacinto Paolo Saggese , Paul Smith

The Free Energy Principle (FEP) is a theoretical framework for describing how (intelligent) systems self-organise into coherent, stable structures by minimising a free energy functional. Active Inference (AIF) is a corollary of the FEP that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Magnus Koudahl , Thijs van de Laar , Bert de Vries

Multi-Agent System is emerging as the \textit{de facto} standard for complex task orchestration. However, its reliance on autonomous execution and unstructured inter-agent communication introduces severe risks, such as indirect prompt…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yangyang Wei , Yijie Xu , Zhenyuan Li , Xiangmin Shen , Shouling Ji

The ever increasing complexity of the hardware design process demands improved hardware design and verification methodologies. With the advent of generative AI various attempts have been made to automate parts of the design and verification…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Mubarek Mohammed

We address the challenges associated with deploying neural networks on CPUs, with a particular focus on minimizing inference time while maintaining accuracy. Our novel approach is to use the dataflow (i.e., computation order) of a neural…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Cyrus Zhou , Zack Hassman , Ruize Xu , Dhirpal Shah , Vaugnn Richard , Yanjing Li

When attempting to understand the behavior of an executable, a binary analyst can make use of many different techniques. These include program slicing, dynamic instrumentation, binary-level rewriting, symbolic execution, and formal…

Developing efficient and accurate visuomotor policies poses a central challenge in robotic imitation learning. While recent rectified flow approaches have advanced visuomotor policy learning, they suffer from a key limitation: After…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rong Xue , Jiageng Mao , Mingtong Zhang , Yue Wang

Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) encoded in STIX and structured according to the MITRE ATT&CK framework has become a global reference for describing adversary behavior. However, ATT&CK was designed as a descriptive knowledge base rather than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ágney Lopes Roth Ferraz , Sidnei Barbieri , Murray Evangelista de Souza , Lourenço Alves Pereira Júnior

Many users implicitly assume that software can only be exploited after it is installed. However, recent supply-chain attacks demonstrate that application integrity must be ensured during installation itself. We introduce SIGL, a new tool…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xueyuan Han , Xiao Yu , Thomas Pasquier , Ding Li , Junghwan Rhee , James Mickens , Margo Seltzer , Haifeng Chen

Fault attacks enable adversaries to manipulate the control-flow of security-critical applications. By inducing targeted faults into the CPU, the software's call graph can be escaped and the control-flow can be redirected to arbitrary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Pascal Nasahl , Salmin Sultana , Hans Liljestrand , Karanvir Grewal , Michael LeMay , David M. Durham , David Schrammel , Stefan Mangard

Fault injection attacks (FIA) pose significant security threats to embedded systems as they exploit weaknesses across multiple layers, including system software, instruction set architecture (ISA), microarchitecture, and physical hardware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Arsalan Ali Malik , Harshvadan Mihir , Aydin Aysu