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Valgrind, and specifically the included tool Memcheck, offers an easy and reliable way for checking the correctness of memory operations in programs. This works in an unintrusive way where Valgrind translates the program into intermediate…

This paper introduces a new open-source tool for the dynamic analyzer Valgrind. The tool measures the amount of memory that is actively being used by a process at any given point in time. While there exist numerous tools to measure the…

Tools for algorithmic differentiation (AD) provide accurate derivatives of computer-implemented functions for use in, e. g., optimization and machine learning (ML). However, they often require the source code of the function to be available…

In this survey paper, we review recent work on frameworks for the high-level, portable programming of heterogeneous multi-/manycore systems (especially, GPU-based systems) using high-level constructs such as annotated user-level software…

Evaluating code generation models for 3D spatial reasoning requires executing generated code in realistic environments and assessing outputs beyond surface-level correctness. We introduce a platform VoxelCode, for analyzing code generation…

Code that is highly optimized poses a problem for program-level verification: programmers can employ various clever tricks that are non-trivial to reason about. For cryptography on low-power devices, it is nonetheless crucial that…

Binary rewriting is a rapidly-maturing technique for modifying software for instrumentation, customization, optimization, and hardening without access to source code. Unfortunately, the practical applications of binary rewriting tools are…

We introduce custom code generation for parametrized convex optimization problems that supports evaluating the derivative of the solution with respect to the parameters, i.e., differentiating through the optimization problem. We extend the…

Processor manufacturers build increasingly specialized processors to mitigate the effects of the power wall to deliver improved performance. Currently, database engines are manually optimized for each processor: A costly and error prone…

Existing methods for visual reasoning attempt to directly map inputs to outputs using black-box architectures without explicitly modeling the underlying reasoning processes. As a result, these black-box models often learn to exploit biases…

Leveraging the SIMD capability of modern CPU architectures is mandatory to take full benefit of their increasing performance. To exploit this feature, binary executables must be explicitly vectorized by the developers or an automatic…

This paper introduces a code generator designed for node-level optimized, extreme-scalable, matrix-free finite element operators on hybrid tetrahedral grids. It optimizes the local evaluation of bilinear forms through various techniques…

Automated code generation remains a persistent challenge in software engineering, as conventional multi-agent frameworks are often constrained by static planning, isolated execution, high computational overhead, and limited adaptability to…

In the database community, we typically evaluate new methods based on experimental results, which we produce by integrating the proposed method along with a set of baselines in a single benchmarking codebase and measuring the individual…

Much software, whether beneficent or malevolent, is distributed only as binaries, sans source code. Absent source code, understanding binaries' behavior can be quite challenging, especially when compiled under higher levels of compiler…

Visual programs are executable code generated by large language models to address visual reasoning problems. They decompose complex questions into multiple reasoning steps and invoke specialized models for each step to solve the problems.…

PLUMED is an open-source software package that is widely used for analyzing and enhancing molecular dynamics simulations that works in conjunction with most available molecular dynamics softwares. While the computational cost of PLUMED…

Binary embeddings provide efficient and powerful ways to perform operations on large scale data. However binary embedding typically requires long codes in order to preserve the discriminative power of the input space. Thus binary coding…

Since compiler optimization is the most common source contributing to binary code differences in syntax, testing the resilience against the changes caused by different compiler optimization settings has become a standard evaluation step for…

Code has emerged as a precise and executable medium for reasoning and action in the agent era. Yet, progress has largely focused on language-centric tasks such as program synthesis and debugging, leaving visual-centric coding underexplored.…