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Zero-shot coordination (ZSC) is a new cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) challenge that aims to train an ego agent to work with diverse, unseen partners during deployment. The significant difference between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Xihuai Wang , Shao Zhang , Wenhao Zhang , Wentao Dong , Jingxiao Chen , Ying Wen , Weinan Zhang

Watermarking schemes for large language models (LLMs) have been proposed to identify the source of the generated text, mitigating the potential threats emerged from model theft. However, current watermarking solutions hardly resolve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Haohua Duan , Liyao Xiang , Xin Zhang

Many seminal results in Interactive Proofs (IPs) use algebraic techniques based on low-degree polynomials, the study of which is pervasive in theoretical computer science. Unfortunately, known methods for endowing such proofs with zero…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Alessandro Chiesa , Michael A. Forbes , Nicholas Spooner

Understanding the decision-making process of machine learning models is crucial for ensuring trustworthy machine learning. Data Shapley, a landmark study on data valuation, advances this understanding by assessing the contribution of each…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Huaiguang Cai

We introduce a formal model for order queries on lists in zero knowledge in the traditional authenticated data structure model. We call this model Privacy-Preserving Authenticated List (PPAL). In this model, the queries are performed on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Esha Ghosh , Olga Ohrimenko , Roberto Tamassia

This paper investigates the feasibility of achieving zero-knowledge verifiability for graph databases, enabling database owners to cryptographically prove the query execution correctness without disclosing the underlying data. Although…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Hao Wu , Changzheng Wei , Yanhao Wang , Li Lin , Yilong Leng , Shiyu He , Minghao Zhao , Hanghang Wu , Ying Yan , Aoying Zhou

ZK-Rollups have emerged as a leading solution for blockchain scalability, leveraging succinct proofs primarily based on ZKP protocols. This paper explores the design of transaction fee mechanisms (TFMs) for ZK-Rollups, focusing on how key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Stefanos Chaliasos , Nicolas Mohnblatt , Assimakis Kattis , Benjamin Livshits

The Shapley value was originally introduced in cooperative game theory as a wealth distribution mechanism. It has since found use in knowledge representation and databases for the purpose of assigning scores to formulas and database tuples…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Meghyn Bienvenu , Diego Figueira , Pierre Lafourcade

Digital transactions currently exceed trillions of dollars annually, yet traditional paper-based agreements remain a bottleneck for automation, enforceability, and dispute resolution. Natural language contracts introduce ambiguity, require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 To-Wen Liu , Matthew Green

Identity verification is the process of confirming an individual's claimed identity, which is essential in sectors like finance, healthcare, and online services to ensure security and prevent fraud. However, current password/PIN-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yao Ma , Wen Yu Kon , Jefferson Chu , Kevin Han Yong Loh , Kaushik Chakraborty , Charles Lim

Current DAO governance praxis limits organizational expressivity and reduces complex organizational decisions to token-weighted voting due to on-chain computational limits. This paper proposes verifiable off-chain computation (leveraging…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jake Hartnell , Eugenio Battaglia

The Private Proof of Solvency is a groundbreaking solution in the realm of Proof of Solvency, offering a secure, efficient, and privacy-preserving method for crypto custody providers such as centralized cryptocurrency exchanges or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Hamid Bateni , Keyvan Kambakhsh

Recent advances in the cryptographic field of "Zero-Knowledge Proofs" have sparked a new wave of research, giving birth to many exciting theoretical approaches in the last few years. Such research has often overlapped with the need for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Mario Alessandro Barbara

This paper proposes a protocol for Proof of Assets of a bitcoin exchange using the Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge (ZK-SNARK) without revealing either the bitcoin addresses of the exchange or balances…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 B Swaroopa Reddy

Despite their ubiquitous use, Shapley value feature attributions can be misleading due to feature interaction in both model and data. We propose an alternative attribution approach, Shapley Sets, which awards value to sets of features.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Torty Sivill , Peter Flach

Debugging and auditing zero-knowledge-compatible smart contracts remains a significant challenge due to the lack of source mapping in compilers such as zkSolc. In this work, we present a preliminary source mapping framework that establishes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Pei Xu , Yulei Sui , Mark Staples

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are critical for privacy-preserving techniques and verifiable computation. Many ZKP protocols rely on key kernels such as the SumCheck protocol and Merkle Tree commitments to enable their key security…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jianqiao Mo , Alhad Daftardar , Joey Ah-Kiow , Kaiyue Guo , Benedikt Bünz , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning, have led to widespread adoption across various applications. Yet, a fundamental challenge persists: how can we verify the correctness of AI model inference when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yunxiao Wang

Numerous works propose post-hoc, model-agnostic explanations for learning to rank, focusing on ordering entities by their relevance to a query through feature attribution methods. However, these attributions often weakly correlate or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tanya Chowdhury , Yair Zick , James Allan

Shapley values have emerged as a critical tool for explaining which features impact the decisions made by machine learning models. However, computing exact Shapley values is difficult, generally requiring an exponential (in the feature…