arXiv:2607. 23882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern System-on-Chip (SoCs) often contain hundreds of millions to tens of billions of gates, making existing Hardware Trojan (HT) detection methods impractical due to their immense scale.
By Yaroslav Popryho, Debjit Pal, Inna Partin-Vaisband
arXiv:2608.21803v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: As machine learning (ML) models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes environments, explainable AI (XAI) methods like SHAP and LIME have become es...
By Maraz Mia, Shovan Roy, Mir Mehedi A. Pritom, Maanak Gupta
arXiv:2605. 10807v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and hardware security is rapidly reshaping the semiconductor industry.
By Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Ramesh Karri
arXiv:2604. 21688v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The IC3 algorithm represents the state-of-the-art (SOTA) hardware model checking technique, owing to its robust performance and scalability.
By Xiaofeng Zhou, Guangyu Hu, Hongce Zhang, Wei Zhang
The paper proposes a new evaluation test for explanation methods: if an explanation accurately captures how a model uses its features, one should be able to reconstruct the model’s predictions from it. The authors convert explanations into predictors by summing feature effects and assess how well these predictors reproduce the model on unseen data, without any fitting. They apply this test to partial dependence plots, accumulated local effects, SHAP, and LIME across multiple datasets and model families, showing that the best method depends on feature dependence and that some existing quality metrics can favor flawed explanations.
By Jacob Selb{\ae}k, Hugo L. Hammer
arXiv:2606. 20502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Whether LLMs scoring well on vulnerability benchmarks genuinely reason about security or merely pattern-match on contaminated data remains unresolved.
By Arastoo Zibaeirad, Marco Vieira