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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

The Price of Peeking: Anytime-Valid Leakage Detection on ML-KEM EM Traces

Side-channel evaluators routinely inspect leakage tests while acquisition is still running, and extend or stop the campaign based on what they see. Fixed-horizon screening such as the Welch $t$-test with threshold $|t|>4.5$ gives no error guarantee for this monitored decision rule. We study anytime-valid leakage detect...

G. Feretzakis, Alexandros Papaspyridis · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Geometry-Adaptive Mechanisms for Private Synthetic Data

A pure $\varepsilon$-differentially private mechanism that combines private depth selection with the authors' pruned variant of the Private Measure Mechanism (PMM) is proposed, and a lower bound under a corresponding internal packing-growth condition is proved, showing that the exponent $1/k$ is sharp within this frame...

Raoof Zare Moayedi, Amir R. Asadi, M. Yassaee et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

DegreeSpar: Structured Degree Sparsity for Efficient Secure Transformer Inference

DegreeSpar is introduced, which formulates secure Transformer compression as structured sparsification over nonlinear polynomial degrees, establishing structured polynomial degree as an effective shared optimization space for secure Transformer compression.

Yi-Fei Cai, Zhuo-Ran Li, Xiao-Zuo Shen et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Evasion Attacks on Cost-Utility-Based Adversarial Training for Online AutoML in IoT Networks

Evaluating the impact of black-box evasion attacks on a cost-utility-based adversarial training defense strategy in an Online AutoML context for IoT networks shows that the AT versions of LB and SRP performed best, achieving the highest adversarial accuracy and high clean accuracy.

C. Nwokoye, Wajiha Zaheer, Khalil El-Khatib et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

TANGO: Watermarking Masked Diffusion Language Models in Token Pairs

TANGO is presented, a watermark for masked-diffusion language models that keys each new token to a nearby token that is already unmasked, and TANGO biases the new token toward a color determined by the key and the nearby token's color.

Kasra Arabi, Nir Weinberger, Micah Goldblum et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Training Witnesses: Trusting the Training without Trusting the Trainer

The key insight is that fast behavioral fingerprints with occasional replay challenges are sufficient for auditing neural network training, and the method is applicable at scale with minimal overhead to the trainer, is cheap for the verifier, rejects bad training runs with amplifiable probability, and allows for exact...

Hou-Jun Liu, Pratyusha Sharma · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

No Free Efficiency: Revisiting the Trade-off Between Training Efficiency and Model Vulnerability

Across vision and language models, it is shown that efficiency-oriented training increases susceptibility to adversarial and privacy attacks, and is called for a paradigm shift toward multi-objective training that jointly optimizes for performance, cost, and security.

Yi-Yong Liu, Jun Sakuma, Michael Backes et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

Climbing the Hill: Prompt Injection Red-Teaming Against Frontier Models with Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

This work proposes a curriculum learning-based method to address the cold-start problem and can effectively red-team frontier LLMs, and shows that the attacker LLM transfers across targets, e.g., an attacker LLM trained to defeat one strong LLM also succeeds against six other frontier LLMs it was never trained on.

Chen-Long Yin, Xiao-Long Jin, Wei Zou et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Sep 2026

Leaky Students: Membership Inference against On-Policy Distillation

On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student to match a teacher's next-token distributions on student-generated trajectories. However, privileged information supplied to the teacher for OPD training may contain sensitive data. Whether the student leaks private information about the records supplied to the teacher duri...

Zhexi Lu, Mingzhi Zhu, Stacy Patterson et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

AnchorMixGAN: Anchor-Aligned Generative Semi-Supervision for DDoS Detection in Cloud-Integrated IoT Networks

AnchorMixGAN is a generative semi-supervised framework that addresses distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in cloud-integrated IoT networks through anchor-aligned target construction, and analyzes how reference-classifier error, view construction, and sharpening affect the target.

Jin Yang, Xu-Feng Liu, Yong-Cai Hu et al. · 0 citations

DualityCert: Verifier-Gated Language-Model Repair of Broken Duality Claims in Quantum Field Theory

DualityCert, a symbolic verifier for candidate Seiberg-duality claims in four-dimensional N=1 quiver gauge theories, is presented and used as a repair environment for language-model agents, which receive a deliberately broken claim and must edit it until it certifies.

Xingyang Yu · 0 citations

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Microsoft Research Blog Nov 3, 2026

Learn the rules: The hacker mindset

Research Manager Mike Walker reflects on a career spanning hacker culture, cybersecurity, and AI, sharing lessons about trust, teamwork, leadership, and why solving difficult problems requires curiosity, judgment, agility—and an understanding of the rules. The post Learn the rules: The hacker mindset appeared first on Microsoft Research.

GPT-Lab Oct 30, 2026

Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation

Critical flaws, compromised release channels and agentic AI threats landed within days of each other in mid-October 2026. Why “Black October” may say more about how well we now find weaknesses than about the attacks themselves. The post Black October? The Week AI Changed the Cybersecurity Conversation appeared first on GPT-Lab.

Google DeepMind Blog Jul 17, 2026

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

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