3 papers
cs.AR2026
CacheMind: From Miss Rates to Why -- Natural-Language, Trace-Grounded Reasoning for Cache Replacement
Kaushal Mhapsekar, Azam Ghanbari, Bita Aslrousta +1
Cache replacement remains a challenging problem in CPU microarchitecture, often addressed using hand-crafted heuristics, limiting cache performance. Cache data analysis requires pa…
cs.CR2025
GATEBLEED: Exploiting On-Core Accelerator Power Gating for High Performance & Stealthy Attacks on AI
Joshua Kalyanapu, Farshad Dizani, Darsh Asher +4
As power consumption from AI training and inference continues to increase, AI accelerators are being integrated directly into the CPU. Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) is o…
cs.CR2025
THOR: A Non-Speculative Value Dependent Timing Side Channel Attack Exploiting Intel AMX
Farshad Dizani, Azam Ghanbari, Joshua Kalyanapu +2
The rise of on-chip accelerators signifies a major shift in computing, driven by the growing demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and specialized applications. These accelerator…