English
Related papers

Related papers: Mon CH\'ERI: Mitigating Uninitialized Memory Acces…

200 papers

While Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) scales capacity via conditional computation, Transformers lack a native primitive for knowledge lookup, forcing them to inefficiently simulate retrieval through computation. To address this, we introduce…

Programs written in C/C++ can suffer from serious memory fragmentation, leading to low utilization of memory, degraded performance, and application failure due to memory exhaustion. This paper introduces Mesh, a plug-in replacement for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Bobby Powers , David Tench , Emery D. Berger , Andrew McGregor

The memory model is the crux of the concurrency semantics of shared-memory systems. It defines the possible values that a read operation is allowed to return for any given set of write operations performed by a concurrent program, thereby…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Manuel Pöter , Jesper Larsson Träff

Memory errors continue to be a critical concern for programs written in low-level programming languages such as C and C++. Many different memory error defenses have been proposed, each with varying trade-offs in terms of overhead,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Sai Dhawal Phaye , Gregory J. Duck , Roland H. C. Yap , Trevor E. Carlson

In-memory computing architectures provide a much needed solution to energy-efficiency barriers posed by Von-Neumann computing due to the movement of data between the processor and the memory. Functions implemented in such in-memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Sina Sayyah Ensan , Karthikeyan Nagarajan , Mohammad Nasim Imtia Khan , Swaroop Ghosh

Shared cache resources in multi-core processors are vulnerable to cache side-channel attacks. Recently proposed defenses have their own caveats: Randomization-based defenses are vulnerable to the evolving attack algorithms besides relying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Ghada Dessouky , Alexander Gruler , Pouya Mahmoody , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Emmanuel Stapf

Currently, various uncertainty quantification methods have been proposed to provide certainty and probability estimates for deep learning models' label predictions. Meanwhile, with the growing demand for the right to be forgotten, machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Qian , Chenxu Zhao , Yangyi Li , Wenqian Ye , Mengdi Huai

Cache attacks exploit memory access patterns of cryptographic implementations. Constant-Time implementation techniques have become an indispensable tool in fighting cache timing attacks. These techniques engineer the memory accesses of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Ahmad Moghimi , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

Memory safety defects pose a major threat to software reliability, enabling cyberattacks, outages, and crashes. To mitigate these risks, organizations adopt Compositional Bounded Model Checking (BMC), using unit proofs to formally verify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Paschal C. Amusuo , Owen Cochell , Taylor Le Lievre , Parth V. Patil , Aravind Machiry , James C. Davis

A cyber range, a practical and highly educational information security exercise system, is difficult to implement in educational institutions because of the high cost of implementing and maintaining it. Therefore, there is a need for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Ryotaro Nakata , Akira Otsuka

Flash memory has been widely adopted as stand-alone memory and embedded memory due to its robust reliability. However, the limited endurance obstacles its further applications in storage class memory (SCM) and to proceed endurance-required…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Yang Feng , Zhaohui Sun , Chengcheng Wang , Xinyi Guo , Junyao Mei , Yueran Qi , Jing Liu , Junyu Zhang , Jixuan Wu , Xuepeng Zhan , Jiezhi Chen

Weaknesses in computer systems such as faults, bugs and errors in the architecture, design or implementation of software provide vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to compromise the security of a system. Common Weakness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Siddhartha Shankar Das , Edoardo Serra , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Alex Pothen , Ehab Al-Shaer

This paper proposes a novel framework for developing safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) by combining Active Inference principles with Large Language Models (LLMs). We argue that traditional approaches to AI safety, focused on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Bo Wen

Spatial memory safety violation is still a major issue for C programs. Checked-C is a safe dialect of C and extends it with Checked pointer types and annotations that guarantee spatial memory safety in a backward-compatible manner, allowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Liyi Li , Arunkumar Bhattar , Le Chang , Mingwei Zhu , Aravind Machiry

Class-incremental continual learning addresses catastrophic forgetting by enabling classification models to preserve knowledge of previously learned classes while acquiring new ones. However, the vulnerability of the models against…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jungwoo Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

AI agents are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks, where malicious content hijacks agent behavior to steal credentials or cause financial loss. The only known robust defense is architectural isolation that strictly separates trusted task…

Memory poisoning attacks for Agentic AI and multi-agent systems (MAS) have recently caught attention. It is partially due to the fact that Large Language Models (LLMs) facilitate the construction and deployment of agents. Different memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Vicenç Torra , Maria Bras-Amorós

Functional encryption (FE) is a versatile paradigm that enables fine-grained access control over encrypted data. Despite its potential, achieving the gold standard of simulation-based security for FE is impossible in full generality. Known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mohammed Barhoush , Louis Salvail

Despite the widely reported success of embedding-based machine learning methods on natural language processing tasks, the use of more easily interpreted engineered features remains common in fields such as cognitive impairment (CI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Benjamin Eyre , Aparna Balagopalan , Jekaterina Novikova

Machine unlearning focuses on efficiently removing specific data from trained models, addressing privacy and compliance concerns with reasonable costs. Although exact unlearning ensures complete data removal equivalent to retraining, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Nima Naderloui , Shenao Yan , Binghui Wang , Jie Fu , Wendy Hui Wang , Weiran Liu , Yuan Hong