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Ryan Swift

Publications 2

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CPU-Auth: Device Fingerprinting for Authentication via DVFS Side-Channel

Ryan Swift · 2026

Lack of effective authentication has resulted in numerous security and privacy breaches, including unauthorized access to protected information, identity theft, and fraud. One approach to mitigating such attacks is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), in which users must provide multiple pieces of information for authent …

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KDFP: A first-principles approach to knowledge distillation in large language models

Ryan Swift, Konstantinos Psounis · 2026

Knowledge distillation is an established technique for improving the capabilities of small, efficient student models by training them with the representations of larger, more capable teacher models. Much of the recent work in the distillation of large language models (LLMs) has focused on distilling abilities learned d …

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Konstantinos Psounis