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Adversarial Co-Evolution of Malware and Detection Models: A Bilevel Optimization Perspective

Olha Jureckova, Martin Jurecek, Matous Kozak, Robert Lorencz · 2026

Machine learning-based malware detectors are increasingly vulnerable to adversarial examples. Traditional defenses, such as one-shot adversarial training, often fail against adaptive attackers who use…

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vstash: Local-First Hybrid Retrieval with Adaptive Fusion for LLM Agents

Jayson Steffens · 2026

We present **vstash**, a local-first document memory system that combines vector similarity search with full-text keyword matching via Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) and adaptive per-query IDF weighting…

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Visibly Recursive Automata

Kevin Dubrulle, Veronique Bruyere, Guillermo A. Perez, Gaetan Staquet · 2026

As an alternative to visibly pushdown automata, we introduce visibly recursive automata (VRAs), composed of a set of classical automata that can call each other. VRAs are a strict extension of so-call…

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Insights for an AI Whistleblower Office from 30 Case Studies

Ethan Beri, Mauricio Baker · 2026

Whistleblower programmes are a promising tool for uncovering noncompliance with AI regulations. This paper aims to help policymakers design an AI whistleblower programme by giving them an understandin…

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Transferable Backdoor Attacks for Code Models via Sharpness-Aware Adversarial Perturbation

Shuyu Chang, Haiping Huang, Yanjun Zhang, Yujin Huang, Fu Xiao, Leo Yu Zhang · 2026

Code models are increasingly adopted in software development but remain vulnerable to backdoor attacks via poisoned training data. Existing backdoor attacks on code models face a fundamental trade-off…

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Lights-Out: An Automated Ground Segment for unstaffed Satellite Operations

Marvin Bocker, Ralph Biggins, Michael Schmeing · 2025

We present our approach for a periodically unstaffed, fully automated ground segment. The concept is in use for the first time on the German satellite communications mission Heinrich Hertz on behalf o…

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IECZ-III: Hardcore Condensation Lift with Size-Aware Invariants

Marko Lela · 2025

This paper develops a compact, size-aware blueprint for transferring structure through gadget lifts. Two low-order invariants -- cumulative mod-$q$ Fourier mass up to degree $k$ and noise stability $\…

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Enhanced cast-128 with adaptive s-box optimization via neural networks for image protection

Fadhil Abbas Fadhil, Maryam Mahdi Alhusseini, Mohammad-Reza Feizi-Derakhshi · 2025

An improved CAST-128 encryption algorithm, which is done by implementing chaos-based adaptive S-box generation using Logistic sine Map (LSM), has been provided in this paper because of the increasing …

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Retrieval-Confused Generation is a Good Defender for Privacy Violation Attack of Large Language Models

Wanli Peng, Xin Chen, Hang Fu, XinYu He, Xue Yiming, Juan Wen · 2025

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made a profound impact on our society and also raised new security concerns. Particularly, due to the remarkable inference ability of LLMs, the pri…

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Lightweight and High-Throughput Secure Logging for Internet of Things and Cold Cloud Continuum

Saif E. Nouma, Attila A. Yavuz · 2025

The growing deployment of resource-limited Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their expanding attack surfaces demand efficient and scalable security mechanisms. System logs are vital for the trust a…

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Modulation of switching dynamics in magnetic tunnel junctions for low-error-rate computational random-access memory

Yang Lv, Brahmdutta Dixit, Jian-Ping Wang · 2025

The conventional computer architecture has been facing challenges answering the ever-increasing demands from emerging applications, such as AI, for energy-efficient computation and memory hardware sys…

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Tight Bounds for some Classical Problems Parameterized by Cutwidth

Narek Bojikian, Vera Chekan, Stefan Kratsch · 2025

Cutwidth is a widely studied parameter that quantifies how well a graph can be decomposed along small edge-cuts. It complements pathwidth, which captures decomposition by small vertex separators, and …

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On equidistant single-orbit cyclic and quasi-cyclic subspace codes

Mahak, Maheshanand Bhaintwal · 2025

A code is said to be equidistant if the distance between any two distinct codewords of the code is the same. In this paper, we have studied equidistant single-orbit cyclic and quasi-cyclic subspace co…

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To Err is AI : A Case Study Informing LLM Flaw Reporting Practices

Sean McGregor, Allyson Ettinger, Nick Judd, Paul Albee, Liwei Jiang, Kavel Rao, Will Smith, Shayne Longpre, Avijit Ghosh, Christopher Fiorelli, Michelle Hoang, Sven Cattell, Nouha Dziri · 2024

In August of 2024, 495 hackers generated evaluations in an open-ended bug bounty targeting the Open Language Model (OLMo) from The Allen Institute for AI. A vendor panel staffed by representatives of …

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SERENE: A Collusion Resilient Replication-based Verification Framework

Amir Esmaeili, Abderrahmen Mtibaa · 2024

The rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology is accompanied by substantial challenges, particularly the reliance on remote task execution without ensuring a reliable and accurate returned re…

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On Approximation Schemes for Stabbing Rectilinear Polygons

Arindam Khan, Aditya Subramanian, Tobias Widmann, Andreas Wiese · 2024

We study the problem of stabbing rectilinear polygons, where we are given $n$ rectilinear polygons in the plane that we want to stab, i.e., we want to select horizontal line segments such that for eac…

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STAA-Net: A Sparse and Transferable Adversarial Attack for Speech Emotion Recognition

Yi Chang, Zhao Ren, Zixing Zhang, Xin Jing, Kun Qian, Xi Shao, Bin Hu, Tanja Schultz, Bjorn W. Schuller · 2024

Speech contains rich information on the emotions of humans, and Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) has been an important topic in the area of human-computer interaction. The robustness of SER models is …

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StemGen: A music generation model that listens

Julian D. Parker, Janne Spijkervet, Katerina Kosta, Furkan Yesiler, Boris Kuznetsov, Ju-Chiang Wang, Matt Avent, Jitong Chen, Duc Le · 2023

End-to-end generation of musical audio using deep learning techniques has seen an explosion of activity recently. However, most models concentrate on generating fully mixed music in response to abstra…

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Assessing requirements engineering and software test alignment -- Five case studies

Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Tony Gorschek, Robert Feldt, Eriks Klotins · 2023

The development of large, software-intensive systems is a complex undertaking that we generally tackle by a divide and conquer strategy. Companies thereby face the challenge of coordinating individual…

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$(1-\epsilon)$-Approximation of Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time

Xiao Mao · 2023

Knapsack is one of the most fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. In the $(1 - \epsilon)$-approximation setting, although there is a fine-grained lower bound of $(n + 1 / \epsilon) ^ {…

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