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Toward Scalable Automated Repository-Level Datasets for Software Vulnerability Detection

Software Engineering 2026-03-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Software vulnerabilities continue to grow in volume and remain difficult to detect in practice. Although learning-based vulnerability detection has progressed, existing benchmarks are largely function-centric and fail to capture realistic, executable, interprocedural settings. Recent repo-level security benchmarks demonstrate the importance of realistic environments, but their manual curation limits scale. This doctoral research proposes an automated benchmark generator that injects realistic vulnerabilities into real-world repositories and synthesizes reproducible proof-of-vulnerability (PoV) exploits, enabling precisely labeled datasets for training and evaluating repo-level vulnerability detection agents. We further investigate an adversarial co-evolution loop between injection and detection agents to improve robustness under realistic constraints.

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@article{arxiv.2603.17974,
  title  = {Toward Scalable Automated Repository-Level Datasets for Software Vulnerability Detection},
  author = {Amine Lbath},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17974},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Supervisor: Prof. Massih-Reza Amini

R2 v1 2026-07-01T11:26:38.884Z