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Deterministic replay is a method for allowing complex multitasking real-time systems to be debugged using standard interactive debuggers. Even though several replay techniques have been proposed for parallel, multi-tasking and real-time…

Large language models are increasingly used to produce runnable software. In practice, security is often addressed through a Detect--Repair--Verify (DRV) loop that detects issues, applies fixes, and verifies the result. This work studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Cheng Cheng

Duplicate bug report detection (DBRD) is a long-standing challenge in both academia and industry. Over the past decades, researchers have proposed various approaches to detect duplicate bug reports more accurately. With the recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Ferdian Thung , David Lo

Large language models (LLMs) are leading significant progress in code generation. Beyond one-pass code generation, recent works further integrate unit tests and program verifiers into LLMs to iteratively refine the generated programs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Li Zhong , Zilong Wang , Jingbo Shang

Researchers have developed numerous debugging approaches to help programmers in the debugging process, but these approaches are rarely used in practice. In this paper, we investigate how programmers debug their code and what researchers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

In the wake of the recent resurgence of the Datalog language of databases, together with its extensions for ontological reasoning settings, this work aims to bridge the gap between the theoretical studies of DatalogMTL (Datalog extended…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Luigi Bellomarini , Livia Blasi , Markus Nissl , Emanuel Sallinger

Clustering temporal and dynamically changing multivariate time series from real-world fields, called temporal clustering for short, has been a major challenge due to inherent complexities. Although several deep temporal clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhi Wang , Yanni Li , Pingping Zheng , Yiyuan Jiao

By recording every state change in the run of a program, it is possible to present the programmer every bit of information that might be desired. Essentially, it becomes possible to debug the program by going ``backwards in time,'' vastly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Bil Lewis

Unstructured data is pervasive, but analytical queries demand structured representations, creating a significant extraction challenge. Existing methods like RAG lack schema awareness and struggle with cross-document alignment, leading to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Daren Chao , Kaiwen Chen , Naiqing Guan , Nick Koudas

Debuggers are a popular reverse engineering and tampering tool. Self-debugging is an effective technique for applications to defend themselves against hostile debuggers. In penetration tests on state-of-the-art self-debugging, we observed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Bert Abrath , Bart Coppens , Ilja Nevolin , Bjorn De Sutter

Multiverse analysis, a paradigm for statistical analysis that considers all combinations of reasonable analysis choices in parallel, promises to improve transparency and reproducibility. Although recent tools help analysts specify…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ken Gu , Eunice Jun , Tim Althoff

The recent breakthroughs in deep learning methods have sparked a wave of interest in learning-based bug detectors. Compared to the traditional static analysis tools, these bug detectors are directly learned from data, thus, easier to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Chi Zhang , Yu Wang , Linzhang Wang

Fault tolerance for the upcoming exascale generation has long been an area of active research. One of the components of a fault tolerance strategy is checkpointing. Petascale-level checkpointing is demonstrated through a new mechanism for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Jiajun Cao , Kapil Arya , Rohan Garg , Shawn Matott , Dhabaleswar K. Panda , Hari Subramoni , Jérôme Vienne , Gene Cooperman

We introduce 3DB: an extendable, unified framework for testing and debugging vision models using photorealistic simulation. We demonstrate, through a wide range of use cases, that 3DB allows users to discover vulnerabilities in computer…

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Designing and debugging distributed systems is notoriously difficult. The correctness of a distributed system is largely determined by its handling of failure scenarios. The sequence of events leading to a bug can be long and complex, and…

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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has made significant achievements in many real-world applications. But these real-world applications typically can only provide partial observations for making decisions due to occlusions and noisy sensors.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yinbo Yu , Jiajia Liu , Shouqing Li , Kepu Huang , Xudong Feng

A gradual type system allows developers to declare certain types to be enforced by the compiler (i.e., statically typed), while leaving other types to be enforced via runtime checks (i.e., dynamically typed). When runtime checks fail,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Felipe Bañados Schwerter , Ronald Garcia , Reid Holmes , Karim Ali

Rug pull is a critical attack in the world of blockchain technology. Despite this, the absence of sufficient time-bound and well-structured datasets is considered one of the significant issues faced while identifying early detection.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fatemeh Shoaei , Mohammad Pishdar , Mozafar Bag-Mohammadi , Mojtaba Karami , Bert Lagaisse

The performance of a parallel algorithm in a very large scale grid is significantly influenced by the underlying Internet protocols and inter-connectivity. Many grid programming platforms use TCP due to its reliability, usually with some…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Elankovan Sundararajan , Aaron Harwood , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

As we stride toward the exascale era, due to increasing complexity of supercomputers, hard and soft errors are causing more and more problems in high-performance scientific and engineering computation. In order to improve reliability…

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