4 papers
Scalpel3: A High-Performance Data Carving Architecture for Recovery of Fragmented Files
Karley Waguespack, Samuel Goodwin, George Hendrick +8
File carving recovers files from raw storage without filesystem metadata, a key capability in digital forensics, data recovery, and digital exploration. Existing tools recover cont…
Co-Evolved Spiking Neural Network Ensembles via Marginal Contribution Fitness
Catherine Rodriquez, James Ghawaly
Evolutionary optimization of spiking neural networks (SNNs) becomes increasingly difficult as task complexity grows because they must search a combined topology--parameter space th…
Quantifying the Accuracy and Cost Impact of Design Decisions in Budget-Constrained Agentic LLM Search
Kyle McCleary, James Ghawaly
Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems combine iterative search, planning prompts, and retrieval backends, but deployed settings impose explicit budgets on tool calls…
REx86: A Local Large Language Model for Assisting in x86 Assembly Reverse Engineering
Darrin Lea, James Ghawaly, Golden Richard +2
Reverse engineering (RE) of x86 binaries is indispensable for malware and firmware analysis, but remains slow due to stripped metadata and adversarial obfuscation. Large Language M…