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Alberto Alfarano

5 accepted papers

2026

Improving ML attacks on LWE with data repetition and stepwise regression

ICML 2026poster

ML attacks on Learning with Errors (LWE) with binary or small secrets only succeed on LWE settings with very simple secrets. For example, they can recover secrets with up to three non-zero bits when models are trained on not-reduced LWE data, and three non-zero bits in the ''cruel region'' [9] when …

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2026

On the origin of neural scaling laws: from random graphs to natural language

ICML 2026spotlight

Scaling laws have played a major role in modern AI, providing predictive power over how model performance will improve with increasing resources. This has spurred intense interest in their origin, with a common suggestion being that they arise from power laws already present in the data. Here we stu…

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2025

Making Hard Problems Easier with Custom Data Distributions and Loss Regularization: A Case Study in Modular Arithmetic

ICML 2025poster

Recent work showed that ML-based attacks on Learning with Errors (LWE), a hard problem used in post-quantum cryptography, outperform classical algebraic attacks in certain settings. Although promising, ML attacks struggle to scale to more complex LWE settings. Prior work connected this issue to the…

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2025

TAPAS: Datasets for Learning the Learning with Errors Problem

NeurIPS 2025poster

AI-powered attacks on Learning with Errors (LWE)—an important hard math problem in post-quantum cryptography—rival or outperform "classical" attacks on LWE under certain parameter settings. Despite the promise of this approach, a dearth of accessible data limits AI practitioners' ability to study an…

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2024

Global Lyapunov functions: a long-standing open problem in mathematics, with symbolic transformers

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite their spectacular progress, language models still struggle on complex reasoning tasks, such as advanced mathematics. We consider a long-standing open problem in mathematics: discovering a Lyapunov function that ensures the global stability of a dynamical system. This problem has no known gen…

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