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ODoQ: Oblivious DNS-over-QUIC
Aditya Kulkarni, Tamal Das, Vivek Balachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11123 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11123

ODoQ: Oblivious DNS-over-QUIC
The Domain Name System (DNS), which converts domain names to their respective IP addresses, has advanced enhancements aimed at safeguarding DNS data and users' identity from attackers. The recent privacy-focused advancements have enabled the IETF to standardize several protocols. Nevertheless, these protocols tend to focus on either strengthening user privacy (like Oblivious DNS and Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS) or reducing resolution latency (as demonstrated by DNS-over-QUIC). Achieving both withi…

Adaptive Attacks on Trusted Monitors Subvert AI Control Protocols
Mikhail Terekhov, Alexander Panfilov, Daniil Dzenhaliou, Caglar Gulcehre, Maksym Andriushchenko, Ameya Prabhu, Jonas Geiping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09462

Adaptive Attacks on Trusted Monitors Subvert AI Control Protocols
AI control protocols serve as a defense mechanism to stop untrusted LLM agents from causing harm in autonomous settings. Prior work treats this as a security problem, stress testing with exploits that use the deployment context to subtly complete harmful side tasks, such as backdoor insertion. In practice, most AI control protocols are fundamentally based on LLM monitors, which can become a central point of failure. We study adaptive attacks by an untrusted model that knows the protocol and the…

Just read the 'don't look up' paper on satellite link interception; it's quite fun. The bit that surprises me a bit is that a lot of the traffic they sniffed was encapsulated in DVB-S signals; different lower level protocols, but they were using a standard DVB-S card for it.
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On the Speed-up of Wave-like Dark Matter Searches with Entangled Qubits
Arushi Bodas, Sohitri Ghosh, Roni Harnik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11795 https://a…

On the Speed-up of Wave-like Dark Matter Searches with Entangled Qubits
Qubit-based sensing platforms offer promising new directions for wave-like dark matter searches. Recent proposals demonstrate that entangled qubits can achieve quadratic scaling of the signal in the number of qubits. In this work we expand on these proposals to analyze the bandwidth and scan rate performance of entangled qubit protocols across different error regimes. We find that the phase-based readout of entangled protocols preserves the search bandwidth independent of qubit number, in contr…

Co-Alignment: Rethinking Alignment as Bidirectional Human-AI Cognitive Adaptation
Yubo Li, Weiyi Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12179 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Co-Alignment: Rethinking Alignment as Bidirectional Human-AI Cognitive Adaptation
Current AI alignment through RLHF follows a single directional paradigm that AI conforms to human preferences while treating human cognition as fixed. We propose a shift to co-alignment through Bidirectional Cognitive Alignment (BiCA), where humans and AI mutually adapt. BiCA uses learnable protocols, representation mapping, and KL-budget constraints for controlled co-evolution. In collaborative navigation, BiCA achieved 85.5% success versus 70.3% baseline, with 230% better mutual adaptation an…

Practical Routing and Criticality in Large-Scale Quantum Communication Networks
Cillian Harney, Stefano Pirandola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10908 https://…

Practical Routing and Criticality in Large-Scale Quantum Communication Networks
The efficacy of a communication network hinges upon both its physical architecture and the protocols that are employed within it. In the context of quantum communications, there exists a fundamental rate-loss tradeoff for point-to-point quantum channels such that the rate for distributing entanglement, secret keys, or quantum states decays exponentially with respect to transmission distance. Quantum networks are the solution to overcome point-to-point limitations, but they simultaneously invite…

Tokenization Disparities as Infrastructure Bias: How Subword Systems Create Inequities in LLM Access and Efficiency
Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot, Wolfgang Nejdl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12389

Tokenization Disparities as Infrastructure Bias: How Subword Systems Create Inequities in LLM Access and Efficiency
Tokenization disparities pose a significant barrier to achieving equitable access to artificial intelligence across linguistically diverse populations. This study conducts a large-scale cross-linguistic evaluation of tokenization efficiency in over 200 languages to systematically quantify computational inequities in large language models (LLMs). Using a standardized experimental framework, we applied consistent preprocessing and normalization protocols, followed by uniform tokenization through …

DMAS-Forge: A Framework for Transparent Deployment of AI Applications as Distributed Systems
Alessandro Cornacchia, Vaastav Anand, Muhammad Bilal, Zafar Qazi, Marco Canini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11872

DMAS-Forge: A Framework for Transparent Deployment of AI Applications as Distributed Systems
Agentic AI applications increasingly rely on multiple agents with distinct roles, specialized tools, and access to memory layers to solve complex tasks -- closely resembling service-oriented architectures. Yet, in the rapid evolving landscape of programming frameworks and new protocols, deploying and testing AI agents as distributed systems remains a daunting and labor-intensive task. We present DMAS-Forge, a framework designed to close this gap. DMAS-Forge decouples application logic from spec…

SCOR: A Framework for Responsible AI Innovation in Digital Ecosystems
Mohammad Saleh Torkestani, Taha Mansouri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10653 https://arx…

SCOR: A Framework for Responsible AI Innovation in Digital Ecosystems
AI-driven digital ecosystems span diverse stakeholders including technology firms, regulators, accelerators and civil society, yet often lack cohesive ethical governance. This paper proposes a four-pillar framework (SCOR) to embed accountability, fairness, and inclusivity across such multi-actor networks. Leveraging a design science approach, we develop a Shared Ethical Charter(S), structured Co-Design and Stakeholder Engagement protocols(C), a system of Continuous Oversight and Learning(O), an…

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 243, which mandates safety protocols for AI chatbot companions, the first state law to regulate such AI chatbots (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/13/california-becomes-firs…

California becomes first state to regulate AI companion chatbots | TechCrunch
SB 243 is designed to protect children and vulnerable users from harms associated with use of AI companion chatbots.

Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network
Michael Crystal, Guy Goren, Scott Duke Kominers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11866 …

Rationally Analyzing Shelby: Proving Incentive Compatibility in a Decentralized Storage Network
Decentralized storage is one of the most natural applications built on blockchains and a central component of the Web3 ecosystem. Yet despite a decade of active development -- from IPFS and Filecoin to more recent entrants -- most of these storage protocols have received limited formal analysis of their incentive properties. Claims of incentive compatibility are sometimes made, but rarely proven. This gap matters: without well-designed incentives, a system may distribute storage but fail to tru…

Multi-Layer Perceptron-Based Relay Node Selection for Next-Generation Intelligent Delay-Tolerant Networks
Zhekun Huang, Milena Radenkovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11239 https:…

Multi-Layer Perceptron-Based Relay Node Selection for Next-Generation Intelligent Delay-Tolerant Networks
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are critical for emergency communication in highly dynamic and challenging scenarios characterized by intermittent connectivity, frequent disruptions, and unpredictable node mobility. While some protocols are widely adopted for simplicity and low overhead, their static replication strategy lacks the ability to adaptively distinguish high-quality relay nodes, often leading to inefficient and suboptimal message dissemination. To address this challenge, we propose a …

The Diameter of (Threshold) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs
Zylan Benjert, Kostas Lakis, Johannes Lengler, Raghu Raman Ravi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12543 https://

The Diameter of (Threshold) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs
We prove that the diameter of threshold (zero temperature) Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs (GIRG) is $Θ(\log n)$. This has strong implications for the runtime of many distributed protocols on those graphs, which often have runtimes bounded as a function of the diameter. The GIRG model exhibits many properties empirically found in real-world networks, and the runtime of various practical algorithms has empirically been found to scale in the same way for GIRG and for real-world networks,…

Nagare Media Ingest: A System for Multimedia Ingest Workflows
Matthias Neugebauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11972 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11972

Nagare Media Ingest: A System for Multimedia Ingest Workflows
Ingesting multimedia data is usually the first step of multimedia workflows. For this purpose, various streaming protocols have been proposed for live and file-based content. For instance, SRT, RIST, DASH-IF Live Media Ingest Protocol and MOQT have been introduced in recent years. At the same time, the number of use cases has only proliferated by the move to cloud- and edge-computing environments. Multimedia systems now have to handle this complexity in order to stay relevant for today's workfl…

Great to see @… running with #ProtocolsForPublishers
Chad is a huge open protocols advocate, and fortunately he's not completely engineering brained and has been spending time at the Internet Governance Forum and other important venues that are m…

Ultrafast optical gating in a nonlinear lithium niobate microcavity
Ouri Karni, Chirag Vaswani, Thibault Chervy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11965 https://ar…

Ultrafast optical gating in a nonlinear lithium niobate microcavity
Recent advances in optical simulation and computational techniques have renewed interest in high-finesse optical cavities for applications such as enhancing light-matter interactions, engineering complex photonic band structures, and storing quantum information. However, the extended interaction times enabled by these cavities often come at the cost of slow optical read-out protocols and limited control over system transients. To address this challenge, we demonstrate an ultrafast intra-cavity …

Utilizing Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing Secure Multi-Party Computation Protocols
Javad Sayyadi, Mahdi Nangir, Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi, Hamid Sayyadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07814 …

Utilizing Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing Secure Multi-Party Computation Protocols
In this manuscript, we explore the application of model-free reinforcement learning in optimizing secure multiparty computation (SMPC) protocols. SMPC is a crucial tool for performing computations on private data without the need to disclose it, holding significant importance in various domains, including information security and privacy. However, the efficiency of current protocols is often suboptimal due to computational and communicational complexities. Our proposed approach leverages model-…

Characterizing and Harnessing Correlations Featuring Independent Qubit Devices
Liang-Liang Sun, Xiang Zhou, Chengjie Zhang, Zizhu Wang, Yong-Shun Song, Sixia Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12022

Characterizing and Harnessing Correlations Featuring Independent Qubit Devices
We propose a framework to characterize the correlations in qubit systems for Bell and prepare-and-measure scenarios with independent devices -- a typically non-convex problem. Based on this result, we introduce protocols for referring devices and detecting entanglement with correlation that are not necessarily extreme or nonlocal, as required by common linear approach. } Specifically, our correlation criterion, derived from uncertainty relation specific to qubit systems, can capture the non-con…

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On 30 April, 1993, CERN published the complete source code to the #WWW protocols developed by @…, as well as his client and server software with this statement: “CERN relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary and permission is given to anyon…

Optimizing BCI Rehabilitation Protocols for Stroke: Exploring Task Design and Training Duration
Aniana Cruz, Marko Kuzmanoski, Gabriel Pires
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08082 htt…

Optimizing BCI Rehabilitation Protocols for Stroke: Exploring Task Design and Training Duration
Stroke is a leading cause of long-term disability and the second most common cause of death worldwide. Although acute treatments have advanced, recovery remains challenging and limited. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have emerged as a promising tool for post-stroke rehabilitation by promoting neuroplasticity. However, clinical outcomes remain variable, and optimal protocols have yet to be established. This study explores strategies to optimize BCI-based rehabilitation by comparing motor image…

Optimizing Cross-Domain Transfer for Universal Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
Jaesun Kim, Jinmu You, Yutack Park, Yunsung Lim, Yujin Kang, Jisu Kim, Haekwan Jeon, Deokgi Hong, Seung Yul Lee, Saerom Choi, Yongdeok Kim, Jae W. Lee, Seungwu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11241

Optimizing Cross-Domain Transfer for Universal Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
Accurate yet transferable machine-learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs) are essential for accelerating materials and chemical discovery. However, most universal MLIPs overfit to narrow datasets or computational protocols, limiting their reliability across chemical and functional domains. We introduce a transferable multi-domain training strategy that jointly optimizes universal and task-specific parameters through selective regularization, coupled with a domain-bridging set (DBS) that aligns …

Decoding Multimode Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Codes with Noisy Auxiliary States
Marc-Antoine Roy, Thomas Pousset, Baptiste Royer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12677 https://

Decoding Multimode Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill Codes with Noisy Auxiliary States
In order to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computing, we make use of quantum error correction schemes designed to protect the logical information of the system from decoherence. A promising way to preserve such information is to use the multimode Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) encoding, which encodes logical qubits into several harmonic oscillators. In this work, we focus on decoding the measurements obtained from Steane-type quantum error correction protocols for multimode GKP codes. We propo…

Strategic Communication Protocols for Interstellar Objects Using a Threat-Communication Viability Index and the Information-Communication Paradox
David R. Gruber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03973

Strategic Communication Protocols for Interstellar Objects Using a Threat-Communication Viability Index and the Information-Communication Paradox
Strategic Communication Protocols provide a structured approach for first contact with interstellar objects that demonstrate technological characteristics and high levels of threat. The protocols find their starting point in an ISO Information-Communication Paradox, namely, as our knowledge of an ISO's threatening capabilities increases, the probability of successful communication decreases while the urgency of communication attempts simultaneously intensifies. From this paradox, a Threat-Commu…

Adaptive Protein Design Protocols and Middleware
Aymen Alsaadi, Jonathan Ash, Mikhail Titov, Matteo Turilli, Andre Merzky, Shantenu Jha, Sagar Khare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06396

Adaptive Protein Design Protocols and Middleware
Computational protein design is experiencing a transformation driven by AI/ML. However, the range of potential protein sequences and structures is astronomically vast, even for moderately sized proteins. Hence, achieving convergence between generated and predicted structures demands substantial computational resources for sampling. The Integrated Machine-learning for Protein Structures at Scale (IMPRESS) offers methods and advanced computing systems for coupling AI to high-performance computing…

IPbus extension for the ALFRED framework
Krystian Roslon, Maciej Czarnynoga, Sebastian Koryciak, Monika Kutyla, Ignacy Mermer, Jacek Tomasz Otwinowski, Wiktor Pierozak, Pawel Grzegorz Russek, Wladyslaw Trzaska, Franciszek Urbanski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11165

IPbus extension for the ALFRED framework
We present a development of the ALFRED framework that includes support for the IPbus protocol, created for the Fast Interaction Trigger (FIT) detector in the ALICE experiment at CERN. This modification resolves the incompatibility between the current GBT-based slow-control protocols and the FIT electronics, which is based on the IPbus. A compatibility layer, named ALF IPbus, was created in C++ and integrated with DIM services, allowing for the transparent conversion of SWT frames into IPbus tra…

During five months of covering ICE raids, LA Public Press added legal training for staff, digital security protocols, threat assessment policies, and more (Michelle Zenarosa/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2025/la-public-press-…

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it

Great article on MIDI and a reminder that open protocols won't easily go obsolete once adopted
https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/midi-essenti…

MALF: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Intelligent Fuzzing of Industrial Control Protocols
Bowei Ning, Xuejun Zong, Kan He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02694 https://

MALF: A Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Intelligent Fuzzing of Industrial Control Protocols
Industrial control systems (ICS) are vital to modern infrastructure but increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, particularly through weaknesses in their communication protocols. This paper presents MALF (Multi-Agent LLM Fuzzing Framework), an advanced fuzzing solution that integrates large language models (LLMs) with multi-agent coordination to identify vulnerabilities in industrial control protocols (ICPs). By leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for domain-specific knowle…

Parametric Drive of a Double Quantum Dot in a Cavity
L. Jarjat, B. Hue, T. Philippe-Kagan, B. Neukelmance, J. Craquelin, A. Th\'ery, C. Fruy, G. Abulizi, J. Becdelievre, M. M. Desjardins, T. Kontos, M. R. Delbecq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09120

Parametric Drive of a Double Quantum Dot in a Cavity
We demonstrate the parametric modulation of a double quantum dot charge dipole coupled to a cavity, at the cavity frequency, achieving an amplified readout signal compared to conventional dispersive protocols. Our findings show that the observed cavity field displacement originates from dipole radiation within the cavity, rather than from a longitudinal coupling mechanism, yet exhibits the same signatures while relying on a transverse coupling. By carefully tuning the phase and amplitude of the…

Evaluating Multiconfigurational Trials for Accurate Phaseless Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo on 3d Transition Metal Complexes
Hung T. Vuong, Ankit Mahajan, John L. Weber, James Shee, David R. Reichman, Richard A. Friesner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09532

Evaluating Multiconfigurational Trials for Accurate Phaseless Auxiliary-Field Quantum Monte Carlo on 3d Transition Metal Complexes
In this study, we evaluate multi-configurational trial wave function protocols for phaseless auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo (ph-AFQMC) on transition metal containing systems. First, we benchmark vertical ionization potentials for 22 3d transition metal complexes against published high-accuracy ph-AFQMC values in a double zeta basis set. We then compute the vertical ionization potential for a set of six metallocenes using our best-performing protocol, alongside ph-AFQMC using a configuratio…

What Do Temporal Graph Learning Models Learn?
Abigail J. Hayes, Tobias Schumacher, Markus Strohmaier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09416 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

What Do Temporal Graph Learning Models Learn?
Learning on temporal graphs has become a central topic in graph representation learning, with numerous benchmarks indicating the strong performance of state-of-the-art models. However, recent work has raised concerns about the reliability of benchmark results, noting issues with commonly used evaluation protocols and the surprising competitiveness of simple heuristics. This contrast raises the question of which properties of the underlying graphs temporal graph learning models actually use to f…

Hybrid MAC Protocol with Integrated Multi-Layered Security for Resource-Constrained UAV Swarm Communications
Dhrumil Bhatt, Siddharth Penumatsa, Vidushi Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10236

Hybrid MAC Protocol with Integrated Multi-Layered Security for Resource-Constrained UAV Swarm Communications
Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs) present unique challenges due to high node mobility, dynamic topologies, and strict resource constraints. Existing routing protocols often optimize for a single metric, such as path length or energy, while neglecting the complex dependencies between network performance, security, and MAC layer efficiency. This paper introduces a novel hardware software co design framework for secure and adaptive UAV swarm communications, featuring an energy aware protocol stack. …

MaP: A Unified Framework for Reliable Evaluation of Pre-training Dynamics
Jiapeng Wang, Changxin Tian, Kunlong Chen, Ziqi Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Wayne Xin Zhao, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09295

MaP: A Unified Framework for Reliable Evaluation of Pre-training Dynamics
Reliable evaluation is fundamental to the progress of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the evaluation process during pre-training is plagued by significant instability that obscures true learning dynamics. In this work, we systematically diagnose this instability, attributing it to two distinct sources: \textit{Parameter Instability} from training stochasticity and \textit{Evaluation Instability} from noisy measurement protocols. To counteract both sources of noise, we introduce \textbf{MaP}, …

Adaptive Stain Normalization for Cross-Domain Medical Histology
Tianyue Xu, Yanlin Wu, Abhai K. Tripathi, Matthew M. Ippolito, Benjamin D. Haeffele
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06592

Adaptive Stain Normalization for Cross-Domain Medical Histology
Deep learning advances have revolutionized automated digital pathology analysis. However, differences in staining protocols and imaging conditions can introduce significant color variability. In deep learning, such color inconsistency often reduces performance when deploying models on data acquired under different conditions from the training data, a challenge known as domain shift. Many existing methods attempt to address this problem via color normalization but suffer from several notable dra…

Memory behavior of a randomly driven model glass
Roni Chatterjee, Smarajit Karmakar, Muhittin Mungan, Damien Vandembroucq
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05537 https://

Memory behavior of a randomly driven model glass
We investigate by atomistic simulations the memory behavior a model glass subjected to random driving protocols. The training consists of a random walk of forward and/or backward shearing sequences bounded by a maximal shear strain of absolute value γT . We show that such a stochastic training protocol is able to record the training amplitude. Different read-out protocols are also tested and are shown to be able to retrieve the training amplitude. We then emphasize the ten- sorial character of…

Optimal Computation from Fluctuation Responses
Jinghao Lyu, Kyle J. Ray, James P. Crutchfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03900 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

Optimal Computation from Fluctuation Responses
The energy cost of computation has emerged as a central challenge at the intersection of physics and computer science. Recent advances in statistical physics -- particularly in stochastic thermodynamics -- enable precise characterizations of work, heat, and entropy production in information-processing systems driven far from equilibrium by time-dependent control protocols. A key open question is then how to design protocols that minimize thermodynamic cost while ensur- ing correct outcomes. To …

DeltaChat is a cool idea but should be cranked to the max. Fuck protocols, instant messaging has never been been about the protocol but the network effect.
Not everyone knows how to login to their email outside of the web browser, a chat client should facilitate speech between you and your friend’s favourite app.
These are all open protocols that allow for direct communication but garden off others: activitypub, email, irc, matrix, xmpp, bluesky, nostr, simplex, theema, tox, jam…

A different, not only technical look at the technology behind the #Fediverse:
"What if instead we thought of the federation protocols (e.g. ActivityPub and friends) as something that could be added to most websites and make them interoperable with other sites?"
Talk, video & slides by @…
https://www.sfscon.it/talks/from-the-fediverse-to-the-open-social-web/

Unsupervised full-field Bayesian inference of orthotropic hyperelasticity from a single biaxial test: a myocardial case study
Rogier P. Krijnen, Akshay Joshi, Siddhant Kumar, Mathias Peirlinck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09498

Unsupervised full-field Bayesian inference of orthotropic hyperelasticity from a single biaxial test: a myocardial case study
Fully capturing this behavior in traditional homogenized tissue testing requires the excitation of multiple deformation modes, i.e. combined triaxial shear tests and biaxial stretch tests. Inherently, such multimodal experimental protocols necessitate multiple tissue samples and extensive sample manipulations. Intrinsic inter-sample variability and manipulation-induced tissue damage might have an adverse effect on the inversely identified tissue behavior. In this work, we aim to overcome this g…

Refereed Learning
Ran Canetti, Ephraim Linder, Connor Wagaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05440 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05440

Refereed Learning
We initiate an investigation of learning tasks in a setting where the learner is given access to two competing provers, only one of which is honest. Specifically, we consider the power of such learners in assessing purported properties of opaque models. Following prior work that considers the power of competing provers in different settings, we call this setting refereed learning. After formulating a general definition of refereed learning tasks, we show refereed learning protocols that obtai…

Open vs. Closed: The Fight for a New Internet
The Story Behind — A federated internet is forming. It's built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.
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A look at NY's RAISE Act, requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols and disclose serious incidents, as its co-sponsor is targeted by a pro-AI super PAC (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/raise-act-new-yo…

Here's what's in the RAISE Act, a state-level AI bill opposed by Trump and industry leaders
The RAISE Act would require large AI companies to publish safety and risk protocols and disclose serious safety incidents. 

A Microstructure Analysis of Coupling in CFMMs
Althea Sterrett, Austin Adams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06095 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06095

A Microstructure Analysis of Coupling in CFMMs
The programmable and composable nature of smart contract protocols has enabled the emergence of novel market structures and asset classes that are architecturally frictional to implement in traditional financial paradigms. This fluidity has produced an understudied class of market dynamics, particularly in coupled markets where one market serves as an oracle for the other. In such market structures, purchases or liquidations through the intermediate asset create coupled price action between the…

Compositional Interface Refinement Through Subtyping in Probabilistic Session Types
Paula Blechschmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16228 https://arxiv.org/p…

Compositional Interface Refinement Through Subtyping in Probabilistic Session Types
Multiparty session types (MPST) are a robust typing framework that ensures safe and deadlock-free communication within distributed protocols. As these protocols grow in complexity, compositional modelling becomes increasingly important to scalably verify their behaviour. Therefore, we propose using a refinement-based subtyping approach to facilitate the modularity needed for compositional verification. Subtyping in classic MPST systems inherently represents a notion of refinement: A larger type…

Co-TAP: Three-Layer Agent Interaction Protocol Technical Report
Shunyu An, Miao Wang, Yongchao Li, Dong Wan, Lina Wang, Ling Qin, Liqin Gao, Congyao Fan, Zhiyong Mao, Jiange Pu, Wenji Xia, Dong Zhao, Rui Hu, Ji Lu, Guiyue Zhou, Baoyu Tang, Yanqin Gao, Yongsheng Du, Daigang Xu, Lingjun Huang, Baoli Wang, Xiwen Zhang, Luyao Wang, Shilong Liu
https://

Co-TAP: Three-Layer Agent Interaction Protocol Technical Report
This paper proposes Co-TAP (T: Triple, A: Agent, P: Protocol), a three-layer agent interaction protocol designed to address the challenges faced by multi-agent systems across the three core dimensions of Interoperability, Interaction and Collaboration, and Knowledge Sharing. We have designed and proposed a layered solution composed of three core protocols: the Human-Agent Interaction Protocol (HAI), the Unified Agent Protocol (UAP), and the Memory-Extraction-Knowledge Protocol (MEK). HAI focuse…

I thought I was too old to get excited about protocols, but this atproto discussion from Dan Abramov delivers:
https://overreacted.io/where-its-at/
(a follow up to his open social post)

Where It's at:// — overreacted
From handles to hosting.

Communication-Optimal Blind Quantum Protocols
Ethan Davies, Alastair Kay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07112 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07112

Communication-Optimal Blind Quantum Protocols
A user, Alice, wants to get server Bob to implement a quantum computation for her. However, she wants to leave him blind to what she's doing. What are the minimal communication resources Alice must use in order to achieve information-theoretic security? In this paper, we consider a single step of the protocol, where Alice conveys to Bob whether or not he should implement a specific gate. We use an entropy-bounding technique to quantify the minimum number of qubits that Alice must send so that B…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- Adaptive Protein Design Protocols and Middleware
Aymen Alsaadi, Jonathan Ash, Mikhail Titov, Matteo Turilli, Andre Merzky, Shantenu Jha, Sagar Khare

PoS-CoPOR: Proof-of-Stake Consensus Protocol with Native Onion Routing Providing Scalability and DoS-Resistance
Ivan Homoliak, Martin Pere\v{s}\'ini, Marek Tama\v{s}kovi\v{c}, Timotej Ponek, Luk\'a\v{s} Hellebrandt, Kamil Malinka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04619

PoS-CoPOR: Proof-of-Stake Consensus Protocol with Native Onion Routing Providing Scalability and DoS-Resistance
Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocols often face a trade-off between performance and security. Protocols that pre-elect leaders for subsequent rounds are vulnerable to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, which can disrupt the network and compromise liveness. In this work, we present PoS-CoPOR, a single-chain PoS consensus protocol that mitigates this vulnerability by integrating a native onion routing mechanism into the consensus protocol itself. PoS-CoPOR combines stake-weighted probabilistic …

The leading vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a far stricter course for federal vaccine approvals,
following claims from his team that Covid vaccines were linked to the deaths of at least 10 children.
Experts suggest the announcement will make the vaccine approval process significantly more difficult.
Dr Vinay Prasad, whose vaccine policy direction has been supported by the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, told FDA staff that…

Angelfish: Consensus with Optimal Throughput and Latency Across the Leader-DAG Spectrum
Qianyu Yu, Giuliano Losa, Nibesh Shrestha, Xuechao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15847 …

Angelfish: Consensus with Optimal Throughput and Latency Across the Leader-DAG Spectrum
To maximize performance, many modern blockchain systems rely on eventually-synchronous, Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus protocols. Two protocol designs have emerged in this space: protocols that minimize latency using a leader that drives both data dissemination and consensus, and protocols that maximize throughput using a separate, asynchronous data dissemination layer. Recent protocols such as Partially-Synchronous Bullshark and Sailfish combine elements of both approaches by using a…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.SE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/new
[1/1]:
- Adaptive Protein Design Protocols and Middleware
Aymen Alsaadi, Jonathan Ash, Mikhail Titov, Matteo Turilli, Andre Merzky, Shantenu Jha, Sagar Khare

Development and Evaluation of an AI-Driven Telemedicine System for Prenatal Healthcare
Juan Barrientos, Michaelle P\'erez, Douglas Gonz\'alez, Favio Reyna, Julio Fajardo, Andrea Lara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01194

Development and Evaluation of an AI-Driven Telemedicine System for Prenatal Healthcare
Access to obstetric ultrasound is often limited in low-resource settings, particularly in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. This work proposes a human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to assist midwives in acquiring diagnostically relevant fetal images using blind sweep protocols. The system incorporates a classification model along with a web-based platform for asynchronous specialist reviews. By identifying key frames in blind sweep studies, the AI syste…

Universal syndrome-based recovery for noise-adapted quantum error correction
Debjyoti Biswas, Prabha Mandayam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08719 https://arxi…

Universal syndrome-based recovery for noise-adapted quantum error correction
Quantum error correction (QEC) is an essential tool for quantum computing that enables reliable information processing in the presence of noise. Syndrome measurements play a central role in QEC, making it possible to unambiguously identify the location and type of errors. While syndrome extraction is natural for conventional QEC protocols, where the errors satisfy certain algebraic constraints \emph{perfectly}, this feature is largely missing in the framework of approximate or noise-adapted QEC…

A look at challenges facing Tether and Circle's stablecoin duopoly, such as intermediaries like exchanges and DeFi protocols exploring their own stablecoins (Nic Carter/Murmurations II)
https://murmurationstwo.substack.com/p/the-stablecoin-duopoly-is-ending…

The stablecoin duopoly is ending
Three's a crowd

On the Limits of Consensus under Dynamic Availability and Reconfiguration
Joachim Neu, Javier Nieto, Ling Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03625 https://arxi…

On the Limits of Consensus under Dynamic Availability and Reconfiguration
Proof-of-stake blockchains require consensus protocols that support Dynamic Availability and Reconfiguration (so-called DAR setting), where the former means that the consensus protocol should remain live even if a large number of nodes temporarily crash, and the latter means it should be possible to change the set of operating nodes over time. State-of-the-art protocols for the DAR setting, such as Ethereum, Cardano's Ouroboros, or Snow White, require unrealistic additional assumptions, such as…

Discriminative Feature Feedback with General Teacher Classes
Omri Bar Oz, Tosca Lechner, Sivan Sabato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07245 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Discriminative Feature Feedback with General Teacher Classes
We study the theoretical properties of the interactive learning protocol Discriminative Feature Feedback (DFF) (Dasgupta et al., 2018). The DFF learning protocol uses feedback in the form of discriminative feature explanations. We provide the first systematic study of DFF in a general framework that is comparable to that of classical protocols such as supervised learning and online learning. We study the optimal mistake bound of DFF in the realizable and the non-realizable settings, and obtain …

Nonlocal Games Through Communication Complexity and Quantum Cryptography
Pierre Botteron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09457 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09457

Nonlocal Games Through Communication Complexity and Quantum Cryptography
This thesis explores foundational aspects of quantum information theory and quantum cryptography. First, we investigate quantum correlations in interactive settings, including the CHSH and graph isomorphism games. We aim to distinguish quantum correlations from non-signaling correlations by leveraging the principle of communication complexity. To this end, we employ techniques such as distributed computation, majority-function-based distillation protocols, the algebraic and geometric properti…

Chainalysis CEO Jonathan Levin says DeFi platforms' rapid growth leaves their users' assets at risk of attack; DefiLlama says $140B is held on DeFi protocols (Nikou Asgari/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/70faf2ae-8279-49cd-97c1-20654d935be8

A Target-Agnostic Protocol-Independent Interface for the Transport Layer
Pedro Mizuno, Kimiya Mohammadtaheri, Linfan Qian, Joshua Johnson, Danny Akbarzadeh, Chris Neely, Mario Baldi, Nacihket Kapre, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21550

A Target-Agnostic Protocol-Independent Interface for the Transport Layer
Transport protocols are fundamental to network communications, continuously evolving to meet the demands of new applications, workloads, and network architectures while running in a wide range of execution environments (a.k.a targets). We argue that this diversity across protocols and targets calls for a high-level, target-agnostic programming abstraction for the transport layer. Specifically, we propose to specify transport protocols as high-level programs that take an event and flow state as …

A federal judge in Washington permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms,
a change dictated in an executive order Donald Trump signed in March.
The ruling definitively halted the effort to compel the Elections Assistance Commission,
an independent body,
to adopt nationwide changes to voting procedures
at a time when the president has also called for requiring voter identification …

Judge Permanently Bars Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration
The ruling on Friday found that Trump had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols.

Multi-Stage CD-Kennedy Receiver for QPSK Modulated CV-QKD in Turbulent Channels
Renzhi Yuan, Zhixing Wang, Shouye Miao, Mufei Zhao, Haifeng Yao, Bin Cao, Mugen Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20030

Multi-Stage CD-Kennedy Receiver for QPSK Modulated CV-QKD in Turbulent Channels
Continuous variable-quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) protocols attract increasing attentions in recent years because they enjoy high secret key rate (SKR) and good compatibility with existing optical communication infrastructure. Classical coherent receivers are widely employed in coherent states based CV-QKD protocols, whose detection performance is bounded by the standard quantum limit (SQL). Recently, quantum receivers based on displacement operators are experimentally demonstrated with det…

cMPI: Using CXL Memory Sharing for MPI One-Sided and Two-Sided Inter-Node Communications
Xi Wang, Bin Ma, Jongryool Kim, Byungil Koh, Hoshik Kim, Dong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05476

cMPI: Using CXL Memory Sharing for MPI One-Sided and Two-Sided Inter-Node Communications
Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a foundational programming model for high-performance computing. MPI libraries traditionally employ network interconnects (e.g., Ethernet and InfiniBand) and network protocols (e.g., TCP and RoCE) with complex software stacks for cross-node communication. We present cMPI, the first work to optimize MPI point-to-point communication (both one-sided and two-sided) using CXL memory sharing on a real CXL platform, transforming cross-node communication into memory t…

Entanglement distribution via satellite: an evaluation of competing protocols assuming realistic free-space optical channels
Nicholas Zaunders, Timothy C. Ralph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01633

Entanglement distribution via satellite: an evaluation of competing protocols assuming realistic free-space optical channels
A key technical requirement of any future quantum network is the ability to distribute quantum-entangled resources between two spatially separated points at a high rate and high fidelity. Entanglement distribution protocols based on satellite platforms, which transmit and receive quantum resources directly via free-space optical propagation, are therefore excellent candidates for quantum networking, since the geometry and loss characteristics of satellite networks feasibly allow for up to conti…

Diagnostics of cognitive failures in multi-agent expert systems using dynamic evaluation protocols and subsequent mutation of the processing context
Andrejs Sorstkins, Josh Bailey, Dr Alistair Baron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15366

Diagnostics of cognitive failures in multi-agent expert systems using dynamic evaluation protocols and subsequent mutation of the processing context
The rapid evolution of neural architectures - from multilayer perceptrons to large-scale Transformer-based models - has enabled language models (LLMs) to exhibit emergent agentic behaviours when equipped with memory, planning, and external tool use. However, their inherent stochasticity and multi-step decision processes render classical evaluation methods inadequate for diagnosing agentic performance. This work introduces a diagnostic framework for expert systems that not only evaluates but als…

FOR-Prompting: From Objection to Revision via an Asymmetric Prompting Protocol
He Zhang, Anzhou Zhang, Jian Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01674 https://ar…

FOR-Prompting: From Objection to Revision via an Asymmetric Prompting Protocol
Reasoning protocols such as Chain of Thought (CoT) and Tree of Thought (ToT) organize internal deliberation but lack an explicit mechanism for external questioning that elicits self-revision. We present FOR-Prompting (From Objection to Revision Prompting), an asymmetric protocol where a Defender proposes an answer, an Objectioner raises question-style objections with no direct fixes, and a Host enforces consistency and closure. On GSM8K we observe about a 22% point gain over single-prompt and a…

A federal judge in Washington permanently barred the Trump administration on Friday from requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms,
a change dictated in an executive order Donald Trump signed in March.
The ruling definitively halted the effort to compel the Elections Assistance Commission,
an independent body,
to adopt nationwide changes to voting procedures
at a time when the president has also called for requiring voter identification …

Judge Permanently Bars Trump From Requiring Proof of Citizenship for Voter Registration
The ruling on Friday found that Trump had usurped the power vested in Congress and the states to administer and oversee elections protocols.

Calyx: Privacy-Preserving Multi-Token Optimistic-Rollup Protocol
Dominik Apel, Zeta Avarikioti, Matteo Maffei, Yuheng Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00164 https://

Calyx: Privacy-Preserving Multi-Token Optimistic-Rollup Protocol
Rollup protocols have recently received significant attention as a promising class of Layer 2 (L2) scalability solutions. By utilizing the Layer 1 (L1) blockchain solely as a bulletin board for a summary of the executed transactions and state changes, rollups enable secure off-chain execution while avoiding the complexity of other L2 mechanisms. However, to ensure data availability, current rollup protocols require the plaintext of executed transactions to be published on-chain, resulting in in…

Leaked Meta internal document shows updated training protocols for its AI chatbot to refuse any prompts involving sexual roleplay with minors (Jyoti Mann/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-chatbot-children-ftc-safety-guidelines-202…

Leaked Meta guidelines show how it trains AI chatbots to respond to child sexual exploitation prompts
A leaked Meta document shows how its AI chatbot is trained to handle child sexual exploitation prompts as it faces FTC scrutiny.

Universally Composable Termination Analysis of Tendermint
Zhixin Dong, Xian Xu, Yuhang Zeng, Mingchao Wan, Chunmiao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01097 https://

Universally Composable Termination Analysis of Tendermint
Modern blockchain systems operating in adversarial environments require robust consensus protocols that guarantee both safety and termination under network delay attacks. Tendermint, a widely adopted consensus protocol in consortium blockchains, achieves high throughput and finality. However, previous analysis of the safety and termination has been done in a standalone fashion, with no consideration of the composition with other protocols interacting with it in a concurrent manner. Moreover, th…

Learning and certification of local time-dependent quantum dynamics and noise
Daniel Stilck Fran\c{c}a, Tim M\"obus, Cambyse Rouz\'e, Albert H. Werner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08500

Learning and certification of local time-dependent quantum dynamics and noise
Hamiltonian learning protocols are essential tools to benchmark quantum computers and simulators. Yet rigorous methods for time-dependent Hamiltonians and Lindbladians remain scarce despite their wide use. We close this gap by learning the time-dependent evolution of a locally interacting $n$-qubit system on a graph of effective dimension $D$ using only preparation of product Pauli eigenstates, evolution under the time-dependent generator for given times, and measurements in product Pauli bases…

GRU-Based Learning for the Identification of Congestion Protocols in TCP Traffic
Paul Bergeron, Sandhya Aneja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13490 https://arxi…

GRU-Based Learning for the Identification of Congestion Protocols in TCP Traffic
This paper presents the identification of congestion control protocols TCP Reno, TCP Cubic, TCP Vegas, and BBR on the Marist University campus, with an accuracy of 97.04% using a GRU-based learning model. We used a faster neural network architecture on a more complex and competitive network in comparison to existing work and achieved comparably high accuracy.

Impossibility Results of Card-Based Protocols via Mathematical Optimization
Shunnosuke Ikeda, Kazumasa Shinagawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17595 https://a…

Impossibility Results of Card-Based Protocols via Mathematical Optimization
This paper introduces mathematical optimization as a new method for proving impossibility proofs in the field of card-based cryptography. While previous impossibility proofs were often limited to cases involving a small number of cards, this new approach establishes results that hold for a large number of cards. The research focuses on single-cut full-open (SCFO) protocols, which consist of performing one random cut and then revealing all cards. The main contribution is that for any three-varia…

Localizing entanglement in high-dimensional states
Christopher Vairogs, Akanksha Chablani, Leo Lee, Hanyang Sha, Abigail Vaughan-Lee, Jacob L. Beckey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08501

Localizing entanglement in high-dimensional states
In this work, we study the asymptotic behavior of protocols that localize entanglement in large multi-qubit states onto a subset of qubits by measuring the remaining qubits. We use the maximal average n-tangle that can be generated on a fixed subsystem by measuring its complement -- either with local or global measurements -- as our key figure of merit. These quantities are known respectively as the localizable entanglement (LE) and the entanglement of assistance (EA). We build upon the work of…

QScale: Probabilistic Chained Consensus for Moderate-Scale Systems
Hasan Heydari, Alysson Bessani, Kartik Nayak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01536 https://ar…

QScale: Probabilistic Chained Consensus for Moderate-Scale Systems
Existing distributed ledger protocols either incur a high communication complexity and are thus suited to systems with a small number of processes (e.g., PBFT), or rely on committee-sampling-based approaches that only work for a very large number of processes (e.g., Algorand). Neither of these lines of work is well-suited for moderate-scale distributed ledgers ranging from a few hundred to a thousand processes, which are common in production (e.g, Redbelly, Sui). The goal of this work is to des…

From Description to Detection: LLM based Extendable O-RAN Compliant Blind DoS Detection in 5G and Beyond
Thusitha Dayaratne, Ngoc Duy Pham, Viet Vo, Shangqi Lai, Sharif Abuadbba, Hajime Suzuki, Xingliang Yuan, Carsten Rudolph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06530

From Description to Detection: LLM based Extendable O-RAN Compliant Blind DoS Detection in 5G and Beyond
The quality and experience of mobile communication have significantly improved with the introduction of 5G, and these improvements are expected to continue beyond the 5G era. However, vulnerabilities in control-plane protocols, such as Radio Resource Control (RRC) and Non-Access Stratum (NAS), pose significant security threats, such as Blind Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. Despite the availability of existing anomaly detection methods that leverage rule-based systems or traditional machine lea…

Quantum Probe Tomography
Sitan Chen, Jordan Cotler, Hsin-Yuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08499 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08499

Quantum Probe Tomography
Characterizing quantum many-body systems is a fundamental problem across physics, chemistry, and materials science. While significant progress has been made, many existing Hamiltonian learning protocols demand digital quantum control over the entire system, creating a disconnect from many real-world settings that provide access only through small, local probes. Motivated by this, we introduce and formalize the problem of quantum probe tomography, where one seeks to learn the parameters of a man…

It Takes a Village: Bridging the Gaps between Current and Formal Specifications for Protocols
David Basin, Nate Foster, Kenneth L. McMillan, Kedar S. Namjoshi, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Jonathan M. Smith, Pamela Zave, Lenore D. Zuck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13208

It Takes a Village: Bridging the Gaps between Current and Formal Specifications for Protocols
Formal specifications have numerous benefits for both designers and users of network protocols. They provide clear, unambiguous representations, which are useful as documentation and for testing. They can help reveal disagreements about what a protocol "is" and identify areas where further work is needed to resolve ambiguities or internal inconsistencies. They also provide a foundation for formal reasoning, making it possible to establish important security and correctness guarantees on all inp…

Single-Shot Universality in Quantum LDPC Codes via Code-Switching
Shi Jie Samuel Tan, Yifan Hong, Ting-Chun Lin, Michael J. Gullans, Min-Hsiu Hsieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08552

Single-Shot Universality in Quantum LDPC Codes via Code-Switching
Code-switching is a powerful technique in quantum error correction that allows one to leverage the complementary strengths of different codes to achieve fault-tolerant universal quantum computation. However, existing code-switching protocols that encapsulate recent generalized lattice surgery approaches often either require many rounds of measurements to ensure fault-tolerance or suffer from low code rates. We present a single-shot, universal protocol that uses code-switching between high-rate …

Verifiable blind observable estimation: A composably secure protocol for near-term quantum advantage tasks
Bo Yang, Elham Kashefi, Harold Ollivier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08548

Verifiable blind observable estimation: A composably secure protocol for near-term quantum advantage tasks
The rapid advance of quantum hardware is spotlighting pre-fault-tolerant tasks that may no longer be efficiently validated by classical means and are likely to run on potentially untrusted remote quantum servers. This motivates problem-independent verification protocols with rigorous guarantees. The Verifiable Blind Quantum Computation (VBQC) protocol provides delegated computation where the composable security spans the confidentiality and integrity of the computation. However, the success o…

Publicly Verifiable Private Information Retrieval Protocols Based on Function Secret Sharing
Lin Zhu, Lingwei Kong, Xin Ning, Xiaoyang Qu, Jianzong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13684

Publicly Verifiable Private Information Retrieval Protocols Based on Function Secret Sharing
Private Information Retrieval (PIR) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive that enables users to retrieve data from a database without revealing which item is being accessed, thereby preserving query privacy. However, PIR protocols also face the challenge of result verifiability, as users expect the reconstructed data to be trustworthy and authentic. In this work, we propose two effective constructions of publicly verifiable PIR (PVPIR) in the multi-server setting, which achieve query privacy…

A Position- and Energy-Aware Routing Strategy for Subterranean LoRa Mesh Networks
Nalith Udugampola, Xiaoyu Ai, Binghao Li, Henry Gong, Aruna Seneviratne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03714

A Position- and Energy-Aware Routing Strategy for Subterranean LoRa Mesh Networks
Although LoRa is predominantly employed with the single-hop LoRaWAN protocol, recent advancements have extended its application to multi-hop mesh topologies. Designing efficient routing for LoRa mesh networks remains challenging due to LoRa's low data rate and ALOHA-based MAC. Prior work often adapts conventional protocols for low-traffic, aboveground networks with strict duty cycle constraints or uses flooding-based methods in subterranean environments. However, these approaches inefficiently …

Sequential quantum processes with group symmetries
Dmitry Grinko, Satoshi Yoshida, Mio Murao, Maris Ozols
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07100 https://arxiv.or…

Sequential quantum processes with group symmetries
Symmetry plays a crucial role in the design and analysis of quantum protocols. This result shows a canonical circuit decomposition of a $(G \times H)$-invariant quantum comb for compact groups $G$ and $H$ using the corresponding Clebsch-Gordan transforms, which naturally extends to the $G$-covariant quantum comb. By using this circuit decomposition, we propose a parametrized quantum comb with group symmetry, and derive the optimal quantum comb which transforms an unknown unitary operation $U \i…

Entangling remote qubits through a two-mode squeezed reservoir
A. Andr\'es-Juanes, J. Agust\'i, R. Sett, E. S. Redchenko, L. Kapoor, S. Hawaldar, P. Rabl, J. M. Fink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07139

Entangling remote qubits through a two-mode squeezed reservoir
The distribution of entanglement across distant qubits is a central challenge for the operation of scalable quantum computers and large-scale quantum networks. Existing approaches rely on deterministic state transfer schemes or probabilistic protocols that require active control or measurement and postselection. Here we demonstrate an alternative, fully autonomous process, where two remote qubits are entangled through their coupling to a quantum-correlated photonic reservoir. In our experiment,…

Quantum-Kaniadakis entropy as a measure of quantum correlations through implicit bounds
Narayan S Iyer, Shraddha Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07241 https://

Quantum-Kaniadakis entropy as a measure of quantum correlations through implicit bounds
In the present article, we examine the relationship of negative conditional quantum Kaniadakis entropy ($α-$CQKE) with the fully entangled fraction (FEF) which is a substantial yardstick for quantum information processing protocols including teleportation, and quantum steerability, executed over four vital quantum states with maximally mixed marginals, the 2-qubit Werner state, the 2-qubit Weyl state, the 2-qudit Werner state and the isotropic state. We initiate our analysis in 2$\otimes$2 sys…

Who's Wearing? Ear Canal Biometric Key Extraction for User Authentication on Wireless Earbuds
Chenpei Huang, Lingfeng Yao, Hui Zhong, Kyu In Lee, Lan Zhang, Xiaoyong Yuan, Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Miao Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02563

Who's Wearing? Ear Canal Biometric Key Extraction for User Authentication on Wireless Earbuds
Ear canal scanning/sensing (ECS) has emerged as a novel biometric authentication method for mobile devices paired with wireless earbuds. Existing studies have demonstrated the uniqueness of ear canals by training and testing machine learning classifiers on ECS data. However, implementing practical ECS-based authentication requires preventing raw biometric data leakage and designing computationally efficient protocols suitable for resource-constrained earbuds. To address these challenges, we pro…

Realistic Threat Models for Fiber and Free-Space Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution
Zhiyue Zuo, Masoud Ghalaii, Stefano Pirandola
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06971 http…

Realistic Threat Models for Fiber and Free-Space Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution
Future global quantum communication networks, or quantum Internet, will realize high-rate secure communication and entanglement distribution for large-scale users over long distances. Continuous variable (CV) quantum key distribution (QKD) provides a powerful setting for secure quantum communications, thanks to the use of room-temperature off-the-shelf optical devices and the potential to reach high rates. However, the achievable performance of CV-QKD protocols is fundamentally limited by the f…

Threat Modeling for Enhancing Security of IoT Audio Classification Devices under a Secure Protocols Framework
Sergio Benlloch-Lopez, Miquel Viel-Vazquez, Javier Naranjo-Alcazar, Jordi Grau-Haro, Pedro Zuccarello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14657

Threat Modeling for Enhancing Security of IoT Audio Classification Devices under a Secure Protocols Framework
The rapid proliferation of IoT nodes equipped with microphones and capable of performing on-device audio classification exposes highly sensitive data while operating under tight resource constraints. To protect against this, we present a defence-in-depth architecture comprising a security protocol that treats the edge device, cellular network and cloud backend as three separate trust domains, linked by TPM-based remote attestation and mutually authenticated TLS 1.3. A STRIDE-driven threat model…

Universal classical-quantum channel resolvability and private channel coding
Takaya Matsuura, Masahito Hayashi, Min-Hsiu Hsieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02883 https://

Universal classical-quantum channel resolvability and private channel coding
We address the problem of constructing fully universal private channel coding protocols for classical-quantum (c-q) channels. Previous work constructed universal decoding strategies, but the encoder relied on random coding, which prevents fully universal code construction. In this work, we resolve this gap by identifying an explicit structural property of codebooks -- namely, the spectral expansion of an associated Schreier graph -- that guarantees universal channel resolvability. Our analysis …

Optimal Threshold Signatures in Bitcoin
Korok Ray, Sindura Saraswathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25408 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25408

Optimal Threshold Signatures in Bitcoin
We formulate the design of a threshold signature scheme as made possible on cryptocurrency protocols like Bitcoin. The funds are secured by an m-of-n threshold signature, where at least m signatures are needed to unlock the funds. A user designs this scheme knowing that a malicious attacker can also obtain the signatures with some probability. Higher thresholds offer more security, but also risk locking the user out of his own funds. The optimal threshold balances these twin effects. Interventi…

On the Cryptographic Foundations of Interactive Quantum Advantage
Kabir Tomer (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Mark Zhandry (Stanford University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05082

On the Cryptographic Foundations of Interactive Quantum Advantage
In this work, we study the hardness required to achieve proofs of quantumness (PoQ), which in turn capture (potentially interactive) quantum advantage. A ``trivial'' PoQ is to simply assume an average-case hard problem for classical computers that is easy for quantum computers. However, there is much interest in ``non-trivial'' PoQ that actually rely on quantum hardness assumptions, as these are often a starting point for more sophisticated protocols such as classical verification of quantum co…

Probing Non-Markovian Quantum Channels via Hilbert-Schmidt Speed and Fidelity Enhanced Teleportation Protocols
Safae Gaidi, Nour-Eddine Abouelkhir, Abdallah Slaoui, Mohammed El Falaki, Rachid Ahl Laamara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19578

Probing Non-Markovian Quantum Channels via Hilbert-Schmidt Speed and Fidelity Enhanced Teleportation Protocols
The reliable transmission of quantum information remains a central challenge in the presence of environmental noise. In particular, maintaining high teleportation fidelity in open quantum systems is hindered by decoherence, which disrupts quantum coherence and entanglement. Traditional noise mitigation techniques often neglect the rich temporal correlations present in realistic environments. This raises a key question: can non-Markovian memory effects be harnessed to improve the performance of …

Cheat-Penalised Quantum Weak Coin-Flipping
Atul Singh Arora, Carl A. Miller, Mauro E. S. Morales, Jamie Sikora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03218 https://arx…

Cheat-Penalised Quantum Weak Coin-Flipping
Coin-flipping is a fundamental task in two-party cryptography where two remote mistrustful parties wish to generate a shared uniformly random bit. While quantum protocols promising near-perfect security exist for weak coin-flipping -- when the parties want opposing outcomes -- it has been shown that they must be inefficient in terms of their round complexity, and it is an open question of how space efficient they can be. In this work, we consider a variant called cheat-penalised weak coin-flipp…

Quantum metrology in presence of correlated noise via Markovian embedding
Arpan Das, Rafa{\l} Demkowicz-Dobrza\'nski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19685 https://

Quantum metrology in presence of correlated noise via Markovian embedding
We analyze quantum metrological protocols, where the sensing system is linearly coupled to a bosonic environment, by performing a Markovian embedding of the problem based on pseudomode formalism. This allows us to effectively model the problem using low-dimensional environment and apply recently developed powerful tools that yield optimal metrological protocols and fundamental metrological bounds for correlated-noise models. We illustrate the method by investigating a frequency estimation proto…

Probability distributions over CSS codes: two-universality, QKD hashing, collision bounds, security
Pete Rigas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02402 https://arx…

Probability distributions over CSS codes: two-universality, QKD hashing, collision bounds, security
We characterize novel probability distributions for CSS codes. Such classes of error correcting codes, originally introduced by Calderbank, Shor, and Steane, are of great significance in advancing the fidelity of Quantum computation, with implications for future near term applications. Within the context of Quantum key distribution, such codes, as examined by Ostrev in arXiv: 2109.06709 along with two-universal hashing protocols, have greatly simplified Quantum phases of computation for uncondi…

Designing Shadow Tomography Protocols by Natural Language Processing
Yadong Wu, Pengfei Zhang, Ce Wang, Juan Yao, Yi-Zhuang You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12782 https://

Designing Shadow Tomography Protocols by Natural Language Processing
Quantum circuits form a foundational framework in quantum science, enabling the description, analysis, and implementation of quantum computations. However, designing efficient circuits, typically constructed from single- and two-qubit gates, remains a major challenge for specific computational tasks. In this work, we introduce a novel artificial intelligence-driven protocol for quantum circuit design, benchmarked using shadow tomography for efficient quantum state readout. Inspired by technique…

Practical Quantum Clock Synchronization Using Weak Coherent Pulses
Noah Crum, Md Mehdi Hassan, George Siopsis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00199 https://arxi…

Practical Quantum Clock Synchronization Using Weak Coherent Pulses
Establishing and maintaining a common time reference across spatially separated devices is a prerequisite for networked quantum experiments and secure communications. Classical two-way timing protocols such as Network Time Protocol (NTP) or Precision Time Protocol (PTP) are vulnerable to asymmetric channel delays and cannot provide the picosecond-level precision demanded by quantum repeater networks. We propose and numerically evaluate a quantum-enhanced clock synchronization protocol based on …

Pre-Distillation of Magic States via Composite Schemes
Muhammad Erew, Moshe Goldstein, Yaron Oz, Haim Suchowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00804 https://ar…

Pre-Distillation of Magic States via Composite Schemes
Magic state distillation (MSD) is a cornerstone of fault-tolerant quantum computing, enabling non-Clifford gates via state injection into stabilizer circuits. However, the substantial overhead of current MSD protocols remains a major obstacle to scalable implementations. We propose a general framework for pre-distillation, based on composite pulse sequences that suppress systematic errors in the generation of magic states. Unlike typical composite designs that target simple gates such as $X$, $…

A Review of Software for Designing and Operating Quantum Networks
Robert J. Hayek, Joaquin Chung, Rajkumar Kettimuthu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00203 https://

A Review of Software for Designing and Operating Quantum Networks
Quantum network protocol development is crucial to realizing a production-grade network that can support distributed sensing, secure communication, and utility-scale quantum computation. However, the transition from laboratory demonstration to deployable networks requires software implementations of architectures and protocols tailored to the unique constraints of quantum systems. This paper reviews the current state of software implementations for quantum networks, organized around the three-p…