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Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs) have become ubiquitous in machine learning technologies because they are interesting for numerous methods. The field of machine learning holds the potential for substantial advancements across various…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Benjamin Antunes , David R. C Hill

Constructions of locally decodable codes (LDCs) have one of two undesirable properties: low rate or high locality (polynomial in the length of the message). In settings where the encoder/decoder have already exchanged cryptographic keys and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Jeremiah Blocki , Shubhang Kulkarni , Samson Zhou

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various tasks in computer vision. However, recent studies demonstrate that these models are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial samples and suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Xin Li , Xiangrui Li , Deng Pan , Dongxiao Zhu

We address the problem of detecting deviations of binary sequence from randomness,which is very important for random number (RNG) and pseudorandom number generators (PRNG). Namely, we consider a null hypothesis $H_0$ that a given bit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 B. Ya. Ryabko , V. A. Monarev

Shared randomness is a valuable resource in distributed computing, allowing some form of coordination between processors without explicit communication. But what happens when the shared random string can affect the inputs to the system?…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Adar Hadad , Moni Naor

Interactive proof systems whose verifiers are constant-space machines have interesting features that do not have counterparts in the better studied case where the verifiers operate under reasonably large space bounds. The language…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-17 M. Utkan Gezer , A. C. Cem Say

Relative entropy coding (REC) algorithms encode a sample from a target distribution $Q$ using a proposal distribution $P$ using as few bits as possible. Unlike entropy coding, REC does not assume discrete distributions or require…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Gergely Flamich , Stratis Markou , Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato

Recurrent neural networks are used to forecast time series in finance, climate, language, and from many other domains. Reservoir computers are a particularly easily trainable form of recurrent neural network. Recently, a "next-generation"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Sarah E. Marzen , Paul M. Riechers , James P. Crutchfield

Recent model inversion attack algorithms permit adversaries to reconstruct a neural network's private and potentially sensitive training data by repeatedly querying the network. In this work, we develop a novel network architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Sayanton V. Dibbo , Adam Breuer , Juston Moore , Michael Teti

Error-Correcting Output Codes (ECOCs) offer a principled approach for combining simple binary classifiers into multiclass classifiers. In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing optimal ECOCs to achieve both nominal and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Samarth Gupta , Saurabh Amin

Guessing Codeword Decoding (GCD) is a recently proposed soft-input forward error correction decoder for arbitrary binary linear codes. Inspired by recent proposals that leverage binary linear codebook structure to reduce the number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Joseph Griffin , Peihong Yuan , Ken R. Duffy , Muriel Medard

Random linear codes are a workhorse in coding theory, and are used to show the existence of codes with the best known or even near-optimal trade-offs in many noise models. However, they have little structure besides linearity, and are not…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Venkatesan Guruswami , Jonathan Mosheiff

The existence of adversarial examples and the easiness with which they can be generated raise several security concerns with regard to deep learning systems, pushing researchers to develop suitable defense mechanisms. The use of networks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Bowen Zhang , Benedetta Tondi , Xixiang Lv , Mauro Barni

In recent years, numerous incidents involving the leakage of website accounts and text passwords (referred to as passwords) have raised significant concerns regarding the potential exposure of personal information. These events underscore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Abel C. H. Chen

The Graphcore Intelligence Processing Unit contains an original pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) called xoroshiro128aox, based on the F2-linear generator xoroshiro128. It is designed to be cheap to implement in hardware and provide…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-13 James Hanlon , Stephen Felix

We study the arithmetic complexity of hitting set generators, which are pseudorandom objects used for derandomization of the polynomial identity testing problem. We give new explicit constructions of hitting set generators whose outputs are…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Robert Andrews

We present a general framework for derandomizing random linear codes with respect to a broad class of properties, known as local properties, which encompass several standard notions such as distance, list-decoding, list-recovery, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Fernando Granha Jeronimo , Nikhil Shagrithaya

This paper considers two challenges faced by practical quantum networks: the bootstrapping of seedless Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNGs) and the resilient combination of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and Quantum Key Distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Juan Antonio Vieira Giestinhas , Timothy Spiller

Backdoor attacks poison the training data, causing the model to behave normally on clean inputs but predict attacker-chosen labels when trigger patterns are embedded into the input samples. Defending against such attacks is highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wei Guo , Maura Pintor , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio

The library PRAND for pseudorandom number generation for modern CPUs and GPUs is presented. It contains both single-threaded and multi-threaded realizations of a number of modern and most reliable generators recently proposed and studied in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 L. Yu. Barash , L. N. Shchur