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Deep learning (DL) models have seen increased attention for time series forecasting, yet the application on cyber-physical systems (CPS) is hindered by the lacking robustness of these methods. Thus, this study evaluates the robustness and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Alexander Windmann , Henrik Steude , Oliver Niggemann

Deep Learning Systems (DLSs) have been widely applied in safety-critical tasks such as autopilot. However, when a perturbed input is fed into a DLS for inference, the DLS often has incorrect outputs (i.e., faults). DLS testing techniques…

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Deep learning (DL) frameworks are the fundamental infrastructure for various DL applications. Framework defects can profoundly cause disastrous accidents, thus requiring sufficient detection. In previous studies, researchers adopt DL models…

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Software testing activities scrutinize the artifacts and the behavior of a software product to find possible defects and ensure that the product meets its expected requirements. Recently, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Paulina Stevia Nouwou Mindom , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

Generation-based fuzzing produces appropriate test cases according to specifications of input grammars and semantic constraints to test systems and software. However, these specifications require significant manual effort to construct. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Chuyang Chen , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Zhiqiang Lin

Clinical abnormality grounding for rare diseases is often hindered by data scarcity, making supervised fine-tuning impractical and single-pass inference highly unstable. We propose Dynamic Decision Learning (DDL), a framework that enables…

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Large language model hallucination represents a critical challenge where outputs deviate from factual accuracy due to distributional biases in training data. While recent investigations establish that specific hidden layers exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Wenkai Wang , Vincent Lee , Yizhen Zheng

In the domain of software security testing, Directed Grey-Box Fuzzing (DGF) has garnered widespread attention for its efficient target localization and excellent detection performance. However, existing approaches measure only the physical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Wang Bin , Ao Yang , Kedan Li , Aofan Liu , Hui Li , Guibo Luo , Weixiang Huang , Yan Zhuang

Deep learning (DL) is becoming increasingly popular in several application domains and has made several new application features involving computer vision, speech recognition and synthesis, self-driving automobiles, drug design, etc.…

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Despite their outstanding performance in a broad spectrum of real-world tasks, deep artificial neural networks are sensitive to input noises, particularly adversarial perturbations. On the contrary, human and animal brains are much less…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Xiyuan Chen , Xingyu Li , Yi Zhou , Tianming Yang

Fuzzing is a technique of finding bugs by executing a software recurrently with a large number of abnormal inputs. Most of the existing fuzzers consider all parts of a software equally, and pay too much attention on how to improve the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yuwei Li , Shouling Ji , Chenyang Lv , Yuan Chen , Jianhai Chen , Qinchen Gu , Chunming Wu

Deep Learning (DL) systems are key enablers for engineering intelligent applications due to their ability to solve complex tasks such as image recognition and machine translation. Nevertheless, using DL systems in safety- and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Simos Gerasimou , Hasan Ferit Eniser , Alper Sen , Alper Cakan

Brain-inspired hyperdimensional computing (HDC) is an emerging computational paradigm that mimics brain cognition and leverages hyperdimensional vectors with fully distributed holographic representation and (pseudo)randomness. Compared to…

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Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict items that users may be interested in based on their historical behavior sequences. We revisit SR from a novel information-theoretic perspective and find that conventional sequential modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Wenjia Xie , Hao Wang , Luankang Zhang , Rui Zhou , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Grey-box fuzz testing has revealed thousands of vulnerabilities in real-world software owing to its lightweight instrumentation, fast coverage feedback, and dynamic adjusting strategies. However, directly applying grey-box fuzzing to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Hongxu Chen , Shengjian Guo , Yinxing Xue , Yulei Sui , Cen Zhang , Yuekang Li , Haijun Wang , Yang Liu

The rising popularity of neural networks (NNs) in recent years and their increasing prevalence in real-world applications have drawn attention to the importance of their verification. While verification is known to be computationally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Natalia Slusarz , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew L. Daggitt , Robert Stewart

Compiler correctness is crucial, as miscompilation can falsify program behaviors, leading to serious consequences. Fuzzing has been studied to uncover compiler defects. However, compiler fuzzing remains challenging: Existing arts focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Chenyuan Yang , Yinlin Deng , Runyu Lu , Jiayi Yao , Jiawei Liu , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand , Lingming Zhang

Jailbreaking large-language models (LLMs) involves testing their robustness against adversarial prompts and evaluating their ability to withstand prompt attacks that could elicit unauthorized or malicious responses. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Aman Goel , Xian Carrie Wu , Zhe Wang , Dmitriy Bespalov , Yanjun Qi

Fuzzing is a popular vulnerability automated testing method utilized by professionals and broader community alike. However, despite its abilities, fuzzing is a time-consuming, computationally expensive process. This is problematic for the…

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Advancements in deep learning are revolutionizing science and engineering. The immense success of deep learning is largely due to its ability to extract essential high-dimensional (HD) features from input data and make inference decisions…

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