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We propose a novel soft-aided iterative decoding algorithm for product codes (PCs). The proposed algorithm, named iterative bounded distance decoding with combined reliability (iBDD-CR), enhances the conventional iterative bounded distance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Alireza Sheikh , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva , Alex Alvarado

Software changes frequently. To efficiently deal with such frequent changes, software verification tools must be incremental. Most of today's approaches for incremental verification consider one specific verification approach. One exception…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Marie-Christine Jakobs , Tim Pollandt

Distributionally Robust (DR) optimization aims to certify worst-case risk within a Wasserstein uncertainty set. Current certifications typically rely either on global Lipschitz bounds, which are often conservative, or on local gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Hong T. M. Chu

Formal verification of deep neural networks is increasingly required in safety-critical domains, yet exact reasoning over piecewise-linear (PWL) activations such as ReLU suffers from a combinatorial explosion of activation patterns. This…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Chandrasekhar Gokavarapu

Products certified under security certification frameworks such as Common Criteria undergo significant scrutiny during the costly certification process. Yet, critical vulnerabilities, including private key recovery (ROCA, Minerva,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Adam Janovsky , Jan Jancar , Petr Svenda , Łukasz Chmielewski , Jiri Michalik , Vashek Matyas

Providing formal guarantees for neural network-based controllers in large-scale interconnected systems remains a fundamental challenge. In particular, using neural certificates to capture cooperative interactions and verifying these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Jingyuan Zhou , Haoze Wu , Kaidi Yang

In this paper we revisit the topic of generalizing proof obligations in bit-level Property Directed Reachability (PDR). We provide a comprehensive study which (1) determines the complexity of the problem, (2) thoroughly analyzes limitations…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Tobias Seufert , Felix Winterer , Christoph Scholl , Karsten Scheibler , Tobias Paxian , Bernd Becker

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a classical model for decision making in the presence of uncertainty. Often they are viewed as state transformers with planning objectives defined with respect to paths over MDP states. An increasingly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-08 S. Akshay , Krishnendu Chatterjee , Tobias Meggendorfer , Đorđe Žikelić

Products codes (PCs) are conventionally decoded with efficient iterative bounded-distance decoding (iBDD) based on hard-decision channel outputs which entails a performance loss compared to a soft-decision decoder. Recently, several hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sisi Miao , Lukas Rapp , Laurent Schmalen

Copy Detection Patterns (CDPs) are crucial elements in modern security applications, playing a vital role in safeguarding industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Current performance evaluations of CDPs predominantly rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Joakim Tutt , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Microarchitectural vulnerabilities increasingly undermine the assumption that hardware can be treated as a reliable root of trust. Prevention mechanisms often lag behind evolving attack techniques, leaving deployed systems unable to assume…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Martin Herrmann , Oussama Draissi , Christian Niesler , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Lucas Davi

Local certification is a topic originating from distributed computing, where a prover tries to convince the vertices of a graph $G$ that $G$ satisfies some property $\mathcal{P}$. To convince the vertices, the prover gives a small piece of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Louis Esperet , Sébastien Zeitoun

We introduce Conflict-Aware Replicated Data Types (CARDs). CARDs are significantly more expressive than Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) as they support operations that can conflict with each other. Introducing conflicting…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Nicholas V. Lewchenko , Arjun Radhakrishna , Akash Gaonkar , Pavol Černý

The key innovation of our analytical method, CaRT, lies in establishing a new hierarchical, distributed architecture to guarantee the safety and robustness of a given learning-based motion planning policy. First, in a nominal setting, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hiroyasu Tsukamoto , Benjamin Rivière , Changrak Choi , Amir Rahmani , Soon-Jo Chung

By the CAP Theorem, a distributed data storage system can ensure either Consistency under Partition (CP) or Availability under Partition (AP), but not both. This has led to a split between CP databases, in which updates are synchronous, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Marc Shapiro , Annette Bieniusa , Nuno Preguiça , Valter Balegas , Christopher Meiklejohn

Process capability indices such as $C_{pk}$ are widely used in manufacturing to support supplier qualification, pilot-build release, and production approval. In practice, approval decisions are often based on deterministic threshold rules…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-14 Fei Jiang , Lei Yang

In modern electronic manufacturing, defect detection on Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) plays a critical role in ensuring product yield and maintaining the reliability of downstream assembly processes. However, existing methods often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiangzhong Cao , Huanqi Wu , Xu Zhang , Lianghong Tan , Huan Zhang

A robustness certificate is the minimum distance of a given input to the decision boundary of the classifier (or its lower bound). For {\it any} input perturbations with a magnitude smaller than the certificate value, the classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi

The deployment of robust malware detection systems in big data environments requires careful consideration of both security effectiveness and computational efficiency. While recent advances in adversarial defenses have demonstrated strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ayush Chaudhary , Sisir Doppalpudi

Adversarial examples pose a security risk as they can alter decisions of a machine learning classifier through slight input perturbations. Certified robustness has been proposed as a mitigation where given an input $\mathbf{x}$, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiankai Jin , Olga Ohrimenko , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein