English
Related papers

Related papers: Loaded Dice: Solving the Non-Selection Problem for…

200 papers

High access frequency of certain rows in the DRAM may cause data loss in cells of physically adjacent rows due to crosstalk. The malicious exploit of this crosstalk by repeatedly accessing a row to induce this effect is known as row…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Seyed Mohammad Seyedzadeh , Alex K. Jones , Rami Melhem

Although deep learning-based personalized recommendation systems provide qualified recommendations, they strain data center resources. The main bottleneck is the embedding layer, which is highly memory-intensive due to its sparse, irregular…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Youngsuk Kim , Junghwan Lim , Hyuk-Jae Lee , Chae Eun Rhee

Rowhammer is a well-studied DRAM phenomenon wherein multiple activations to a given row can cause bit flips in adjacent rows. Many mitigation techniques have been introduced to address Rowhammer, with some support being incorporated into…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Maccoy Merrell , Daniel Puckett , Gino Chacon , Jeffrey Stuecheli , Stavros Kalafatis , Paul V. Gratz

Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer from RowHammer, a phenomenon where rapidly activating a DRAM row can cause bit-flips in physically-nearby rows. Recent studies demonstrate that modern DRAM chips,…

Multi-agent LLM systems introduce a security risk in which sensitive information accessed by one agent can propagate through shared context and reappear in downstream outputs, even without explicit adversarial intent. We formalise this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Riya Tapwal , Abhishek Kumar , Carsten Maple

The existence of noisy labels in real-world data negatively impacts the performance of deep learning models. Although much research effort has been devoted to improving robustness to noisy labels in classification tasks, the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Chang Liu , Han Yu , Boyang Li , Zhiqi Shen , Zhanning Gao , Peiran Ren , Xuansong Xie , Lizhen Cui , Chunyan Miao

RowHammer attacks are a growing security and reliability concern for DRAMs and computer systems as they can induce many bit errors that overwhelm error detection and correction capabilities. System-level solutions are needed as process…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Steven C. Woo , Wendy Elsasser , Mike Hamburg , Eric Linstadt , Michael R. Miller , Taeksang Song , James Tringali

Processing-in-memory (PIM) seeks to eliminate computation/memory data transfer using devices that support both storage and logic. Stateful logic techniques such as IMPLY, MAGIC and FELIX can perform logic gates within memristive crossbar…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Orian Leitersdorf , Ronny Ronen , Shahar Kvatinsky

Supervised machine learning techniques have shown promising results in code analysis and optimization problems. However, a learning-based solution can be brittle because minor changes in hardware or application workloads -- such as facing a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Huanting Wang , Patrick Lenihan , Zheng Wang

RowHammer vulnerabilities pose a significant threat to modern DRAM-based systems, where rapid activation of DRAM rows can induce bit-flips in neighboring rows. To mitigate this, state-of-the-art host-side RowHammer mitigations typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jeonghyun Woo , Prashant J. Nair

Generative sequence modeling faces a fundamental tension between the expressivity of Transformers and the efficiency of linear sequence models. Existing efficient architectures are theoretically bounded by shallow, single-step linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Jie Jiang , Ke Cheng , Xin Xu , Mengyang Pang , Tianhao Lu , Jiaheng Li , Yue Liu , Yuan Wang , Jun Zhang , Huan Yu , Zhouchen Lin

As Dynamic Random Access Memories (DRAM) scale, they are becoming increasingly susceptible to Row Hammer. By rapidly activating rows of DRAM cells (aggressor rows), attackers can exploit inter-cell interference through Row Hammer to flip…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jeonghyun Woo , Gururaj Saileshwar , Prashant J. Nair

DEEPTHINK methods improve reasoning by generating, refining, and aggregating populations of candidate solutions, which enables strong performance on complex mathematical and scientific tasks. However, existing frameworks often lack reliable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Rituraj Sharma , Weiyuan Chen , Noah Provenzano , Tu Vu

Proactive agents must decide not only what to say but also whether and when to intervene. Many current systems rely on brittle heuristics or indiscriminate long reasoning, which offers little control over the benefit-burden tradeoff. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuxuan Fu , Xiaoyu Tan , Teqi Hao , Chen Zhan , Xihe Qiu

Sparse tensors are the most used representation of sparse multidimensional data. Operations that decompose them, selecting their most important features while reducing their dimension, have become prevalent procedures in machine learning.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Pacheco , Leonel Sousa , Aleksandar Ilic

Database applications are increasingly bottlenecked by memory bandwidth and latency due to the memory wall and the limited scalability of DRAM. Join queries, central to analytical workloads, require intensive memory access and are…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Sabiha Tajdari , Anastasia Ailamaki , Sandhya Dwarkadas

Simulation plays a central role in scientific discovery. In many applications, the bottleneck is no longer running a simulator; it is choosing among large families of plausible simulators, each corresponding to different forward…

As its core computation, a self-attention mechanism gauges pairwise correlations across the entire input sequence. Despite favorable performance, calculating pairwise correlations is prohibitively costly. While recent work has shown the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Amir Yazdanbakhsh , Ashkan Moradifirouzabadi , Zheng Li , Mingu Kang

With lowering thresholds, transparently defending against Rowhammer within DRAM is challenging due to the lack of time to perform mitigation. Commercially deployed in-DRAM defenses like TRR that steal time from normal refreshes~(REF) to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Hritvik Taneja , Moinuddin Qureshi

Cryptographic algorithms such as AES-128 and SHA-256 are fundamental to ensuring data security and integrity. Although these algorithms are computationally efficient, their performance is often constrained by the processor-centric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nicola Barcarolo , Brahmaiah Gandham , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Roberto Passerone , Onur Mutlu , Flavio Vella