SecureLLAMA: Secure FPGAs Using LLAMA Large Language Models
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are increasingly utilized in critical applications across sectors such as infrastructure, defense, and autonomous systems. However, the inherent flexibility of FPGAs introduces significant security vulnerabilities, particularly in the hardware description languages (HDLs) used to program them. This article introduces SecureLLAMA, an enhanced version of the LLAMA2 model, specifically designed to detect and mitigate FPGA vulnerabilities. Leveraging a novel dataset “FPGAvul” which includes both real-world examples and synthetically generated vulnerabilities. Our dataset FPGAvul addresses vulnerabilities such as initialization errors, clock domain crossing issues, insecure state machines, resource sharing conflicts, and buffer overflows. SecureLLAMA demonstrates superior accuracy in identifying and addressing security flaws in FPGA configurations. Comprehensive evaluation shows that SecureLLAMA significantly improves the detection of vulnerabilities, providing a robust solution for securing FPGAs in embedded systems. The findings of this research have the potential to advance FPGA security practices, ensuring their safe integration in critical environments where reliability is essential.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it