7 papers
Threat-Oriented Digital Twinning for Security Evaluation of Autonomous Platforms
Thomas J. Neubert, Laxima Niure Kandel, Berker Peköz
Open, unclassified research on secure autonomy is constrained by limited access to operational platforms, contested communications infrastructure, and representative adversarial te…
Reed-Muller Error-Correction Code Encoder for SFQ-to-CMOS Interface Circuits
Yerzhan Mustafa, Berker Peköz, Selçuk Köse
Data transmission from superconducting digital electronics such as single flux quantum (SFQ) logic to semiconductor (CMOS) circuits is subject to bit errors due to, e.g., flux trap…
RadAround: A Field-Expedient Direction Finder for Contested IoT Sensing & EM Situational Awareness
Owen A. Maute, Blake A. Roberts, Berker Peköz
This paper presents RadAround, a passive 2-D direction-finding system designed for adversarial IoT sensing in contested environments. Using mechanically steered narrow-beam antenna…
Seed-Induced Uniqueness in Transformer Models: Subspace Alignment Governs Subliminal Transfer
AyÅe Selin Okatan, Mustafa Ä°lhan AkbaÅ, Laxima Niure Kandel +1
We analyze subliminal transfer in Transformer models, where a teacher embeds hidden traits that can be linearly decoded by a student without degrading main-task performance. Prior…
Keys in the Weights: Transformer Authentication Using Model-Bound Latent Representations
AyÅe S. Okatan, Mustafa Ä°lhan AkbaÅ, Laxima Niure Kandel +1
We introduce Model-Bound Latent Exchange (MoBLE), a decoder-binding property in Transformer autoencoders formalized as Zero-Shot Decoder Non-Transferability (ZSDN). In identity tas…
Clone What You Can't Steal: Black-Box LLM Replication via Logit Leakage and Distillation
Kanchon Gharami, Hansaka Aluvihare, Shafika Showkat Moni +1
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in mission-critical systems, facilitating tasks such as satellite operations, command-and-control, military decision support,…