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System prompts that include detailed instructions to describe the task performed by the underlying LLM can easily transform foundation models into tools and services with minimal overhead. They are often considered intellectual property,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 David Pape , Sina Mavali , Thorsten Eisenhofer , Lea Schönherr

Reproducing machine learning papers is essential for scientific progress but remains challenging for both humans and automated agents. Existing agent-based methods often struggle to fully and accurately reproduce implementation details such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingyang Zhou , Quanming Yao , Lun Du , Lanning Wei , Da Zheng

In the last two decades, several classes of codes are introduced to protect the copyrighted digital data. They have important applications in the scenarios like digital fingerprinting and broadcast encryption schemes. In this paper we will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Chong Shangguan , Jingxue Ma , Gennian Ge

Constrained codes are used to prevent errors from occurring in various data storage and data transmission systems. They can help in increasing the storage density of magnetic storage devices, in managing the lifetime of electronic storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Ahmed Hareedy , Beyza Dabak , Robert Calderbank

The false discovery proportion (FDP) is a convenient way to account for false positives when a large number $m$ of tests are performed simultaneously. Romano and Wolf [Ann. Statist. 35 (2007) 1378-1408] have proposed a general principle…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Sylvain Delattre , Etienne Roquain

The true online TD({\lambda}) algorithm has recently been proposed (van Seijen and Sutton, 2014) as a universal replacement for the popular TD({\lambda}) algorithm, in temporal-difference learning and reinforcement learning. True online…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Harm van Seijen , A. Rupam Mahmood , Patrick M. Pilarski , Richard S. Sutton

Adversarial examples pose a security threat to many critical systems built on neural networks (such as face recognition systems, and self-driving cars). While many methods have been proposed to build robust models, how to build certifiably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ruihan Zhang , Peixin Zhang , Jun Sun

The prevalence of neural networks in society is expanding at an increasing rate. It is becoming clear that providing robust guarantees on systems that use neural networks is very important, especially in safety-critical applications. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Matthew Newton , Antonis Papachristodoulou

We construct efficient data structures that are resilient against a constant fraction of adversarial noise. Our model requires that the decoder answers most queries correctly with high probability and for the remaining queries, the decoder…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-01-27 Victor Chen , Elena Grigorescu , Ronald de Wolf

Tor recently integrated a circuit padding framework for creating padding machines: defenses that work by defining state machines that inject dummy traffic to protect against traffic analysis attacks like Website Fingerprinting (WF) attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Tobias Pulls

As state-of-the-art neural networks are deployed on reasoning and algorithmic tasks, exactness guarantees become increasingly important. However, high average-case accuracy can still mask inconsistent behaviors. This motivates exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Artur Back de Luca , Kimon Fountoulakis

Safety defenses for large language models (LLMs) are typically trained and evaluated on single-turn prompts, yet real attacks often unfold as indirect, multi-turn probing. To defend against this more nuanced form of deception, we present a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-28 Surender Suresh Kumar , Mary L. Cummings

Among user authentication methods, behavioural biometrics has proven to be effective against identity theft as well as user-friendly and unobtrusive. One of the most popular traits in the literature is keystroke dynamics due to the large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Giuseppe Stragapede , Paula Delgado-Santos , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Richard Guest , Aythami Morales

High-rate and large-distance quantum codes are expected to make fault-tolerant quantum computing more efficient, but most of them lack efficient fault-tolerant encoded-state preparation methods. We propose such a fault-tolerant encoder for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Naoyuki Kanomata , Hayato Goto

Temporal difference (TD) methods constitute a class of methods for learning predictions in multi-step prediction problems, parameterized by a recency factor lambda. Currently the most important application of these methods is to temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-02-03 P. Cichosz

Digital fingerprinting is a framework for marking media files, such as images, music, or movies, with user-specific signatures to deter illegal distribution. Multiple users can collude to produce a forgery that can potentially overcome a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-16 Dustin G. Mixon , Christopher J. Quinn , Negar Kiyavash , Matthew Fickus

Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) systems are usually designed independently of the fingerprint verification system. While this can be acceptable for use cases where specific user templates are not predetermined, it represents a missed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Marco Micheletto , Giulia Orrù , Luca Ghiani , Gian Luca Marcialis

In the Shortest Superstring problem, we are given a set of strings and we are asking for a common superstring, which has the minimum number of characters. The Shortest Superstring problem is NP-hard and several constant-factor approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Matthias Englert , Nicolaos Matsakis , Pavel Veselý

Model fingerprinting is a widely adopted approach to safeguard the intellectual property rights of open-source models by preventing their unauthorized reuse. It is promising and convenient since it does not necessitate modifying the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shuo Shao , Haozhe Zhu , Yiming Li , Hongwei Yao , Tianwei Zhang , Zhan Qin

It is not so well-known that measurement-free quantum error correction protocols can be designed to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing. Despite the potential advantages of using such protocols in terms of the relaxation of accuracy,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-02 Gerardo A. Paz-Silva , Gavin K. Brennen , Jason Twamley