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Current hardware security verification processes predominantly rely on manual threat modeling and test plan generation, which are labor-intensive, error-prone, and struggle to scale with increasing design complexity and evolving attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Dipayan Saha , Hasan Al Shaikh , Shams Tarek , Farimah Farahmandi

Attestation means providing evidence that a remote target system is worthy of trust for some sensitive interaction. Although attestation is already used in network access control, security management, and trusted execution environments, it…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Will Thomas , Logan Schmalz , Adam Petz , Perry Alexander , Joshua D. Guttman , Paul D. Rowe , James Carter

Security teams face a challenge: the volume of newly disclosed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) far exceeds the capacity to manually develop detection mechanisms. In 2025, the National Vulnerability Database published over 48,000…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ayush Garg , Sophia Hager , Jacob Montiel , Aditya Tiwari , Michael Gentile , Zach Reavis , David Magnotti , Wayne Fullen

Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) is critical for ensuring functional correctness in modern hardware systems. However, manually writing high-quality SVAs remains labor-intensive and error-prone. To bridge this gap, we propose AssertCoder,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Enyuan Tian , Yiwei Ci , Qiusong Yang , Yufeng Li , Zhichao Lyu

In recent years, a proliferation of cyber-security threats and diversity has been on the rise culminating in an increase in their reporting and analysis. To counter that, many non-profit organizations have emerged in this domain, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Ashraf Haddad , Najwa Aaraj , Preslav Nakov , Septimiu Fabian Mare

In this paper, we introduce SecQA, a novel dataset tailored for evaluating the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the domain of computer security. Utilizing multiple-choice questions generated by GPT-4 based on the "Computer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zefang Liu

Assertions are widely used for functional validation as well as coverage analysis for both software and hardware designs. Assertions enable runtime error detection as well as faster localization of errors. While there is a vast literature…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Yangdi Lyu , Prabhat Mishra

Recent research on word-level confidence estimation for speech recognition systems has primarily focused on lightweight models known as Confidence Estimation Modules (CEMs), which rely on hand-engineered features derived from Automatic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Vaibhav Aggarwal , Shabari S Nair , Yash Verma , Yash Jogi

Artifact Evaluation (AE) is essential for ensuring the transparency and reliability of research, closing the gap between exploratory work and real-world deployment is particularly important in cybersecurity, particularly in IoT and CPSs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 David Heye , Karl Kindermann , Robin Decker , Johannes Lohmöller , Anastasiia Belova , Sandra Geisler , Klaus Wehrle , Jan Pennekamp

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant improvement in RTL code generation. Despite the advances, the generated code is often riddled with common vulnerabilities and weaknesses (CWEs) that can slip by untrained eyes. Attackers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Prithwish Basu Roy , Zeng Wang , Anatolii Chuvashlov , Weihua Xiao , Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Ramesh Karri

The increasing digitization of smart grids has improved operational efficiency but also introduced new cybersecurity vulnerabilities, such as False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs) targeting Automatic Generation Control (AGC) systems. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Muhammad Sharshar , Ahmad Mohammad Saber , Davor Svetinovic , Amr M. Youssef , Deepa Kundur , Ehab F. El-Saadany

The next generation of AI systems requires strong safety guarantees. This report looks at the software implementation of neural networks and related memory safety properties, including NULL pointer deference, out-of-bound access,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yiannis Charalambous , Edoardo Manino , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Formal property verification (FPV) has existed for decades and has been shown to be effective at finding intricate RTL bugs. However, formal properties, such as those written as SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), are time-consuming and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Marcelo Orenes-Vera , Margaret Martonosi , David Wentzlaff

Unit testing attempts to validate the correctness of basic units of the software system under test and has a crucial role in software development and testing. Very recent work proposes a retrieve-and-edit approach to generate unit test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Yi Zheng , Ruixiang Qian , Shengcheng Yu , Yuan Zhao , Jianyi Zhou , Yun Yang , Tao Zheng , Zhenyu Chen

Robotics and Autonomous Systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical domains, so that demonstrating their safety is essential. Assurance Cases (ACs) provide structured arguments supported by evidence, but generating and maintaining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Fang Yan , Simon Foster , Ana Cavalcanti , Ibrahim Habli , James Baxter

The hardware ecosystem is rapidly evolving, with increasing interest in translating low-level programs across different instruction set architectures (ISAs) in a quick, flexible, and correct way to enhance the portability and longevity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ahmed Heakl , Sarim Hashmi , Chaimaa Abi , Celine Lee , Abdulrahman Mahmoud

Generating SystemVerilog Assertions (SVAs) from natural language specifications remains a major challenge in formal verification (FV) due to the inherent ambiguity and incompleteness of specifications. Existing LLM-based approaches, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yunsheng Bai , Ghaith Bany Hamad , Syed Suhaib , Haoxing Ren

The application of large language models to code generation has evolved from one-shot generation to iterative refinement, yet the evolution of security throughout iteration remains insufficiently understood. Through comparative experiments…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yi Chen , Yun Bian , Haiquan Wang , Shihao Li , Zhe Cui

The security of scripting languages such as PowerShell is critical given their powerful automation and administration capabilities, often exercised with elevated privileges. Today, securing these languages still demands substantial human…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Keyang Zhang , Zeyu Chen , Xuan Feng , Dongliang Fang , Yaowen Zheng , Zhi Li , Limin Sun

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into software engineering has revolutionized code generation, enabling unprecedented productivity through promptware and autonomous AI agents. However, this transformation introduces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Satyam Kumar Navneet , Joydeep Chandra