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Deep embeddings answer one simple question: How similar are two images? Learning these embeddings is the bedrock of verification, zero-shot learning, and visual search. The most prominent approaches optimize a deep convolutional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Chao-Yuan Wu , R. Manmatha , Alexander J. Smola , Philipp Krähenbühl

We present collaborative similarity embedding (CSE), a unified framework that exploits comprehensive collaborative relations available in a user-item bipartite graph for representation learning and recommendation. In the proposed framework,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Chih-Ming Chen , Chuan-Ju Wang , Ming-Feng Tsai , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Binary similarity involves determining whether two binary programs exhibit similar functionality, often originating from the same source code. In this work, we propose VexIR2Vec, an approach for binary similarity using VEX-IR, an…

In this work, we begin to investigate the possibility of training a deep neural network on the task of binary code understanding. Specifically, the network would take, as input, features derived directly from binaries and output English…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Interrante-Grant , Andy Davis , Heather Preslier , Tim Leek

An autoassociative memory model is a function that, given a set of data points, takes as input an arbitrary vector and outputs the most similar data point from the memorized set. However, popular memory models fail to retrieve images even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Tommaso Salvatori , Beren Millidge , Yuhang Song , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) is not only essential for security tasks such as vulnerability identification but also for code copying detection, yet it remains challenging due to binary stripping and diverse compilation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Li Zhou , Marc Dacier , Charalambos Konstantinou

Binary code similarity analysis (BCSA) is a crucial research area in many fields such as cybersecurity. Specifically, function-level diffing tools are the most widely used in BCSA: they perform function matching one by one for evaluating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zhijie Liu , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Liang Feng Zhang , Yutian Tang

Binary codes have been widely used in vision problems as a compact feature representation to achieve both space and time advantages. Various methods have been proposed to learn data-dependent hash functions which map a feature vector to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-22 Jie Feng , Wei Liu , Yan Wang

In this vision paper, we propose a shift in perspective for improving the effectiveness of similarity search. Rather than focusing solely on enhancing the data quality, particularly machine learning-generated embeddings, we advocate for a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Renzhi Wu , Jingfan Meng , Jie Jeff Xu , Huayi Wang , Kexin Rong

Just as semantic hashing can accelerate information retrieval, binary valued embeddings can significantly reduce latency in the retrieval of graphical data. We introduce a simple but effective model for learning such binary vectors for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Vinith Misra , Sumit Bhatia

Binary code similarity detection is an important problem with applications in areas such as malware analysis, vulnerability research and license violation detection. This paper proposes a novel graph neural network architecture combined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Joshua Collyer , Tim Watson , Iain Phillips

Binary code similarity approaches compare two or more pieces of binary code to identify their similarities and differences. The ability to compare binary code enables many real-world applications on scenarios where source code may not be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Irfan Ul Haq , Juan Caballero

With the development of medical imaging technology and machine learning, computer-assisted diagnosis which can provide impressive reference to pathologists, attracts extensive research interests. The exponential growth of medical images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Xiao Kang , Xingbo Liu , Xiushan Nie , Yilong Yin

We present a supervised binary encoding scheme for image retrieval that learns projections by taking into account similarity between classes obtained from output embeddings. Our motivation is that binary hash codes learned in this way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Sravanthi Bondugula , Varun Manjunatha , Larry S. Davis , David Doermann

Attributed network embedding aims to learn low-dimensional vector representations for nodes in a network, where each node contains rich attributes/features describing node content. Because network topology structure and node attributes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Daokun Zhang , Jie Yin , Xingquan Zhu , Chengqi Zhang

Representing images by compact hash codes is an attractive approach for large-scale content-based image retrieval. In most state-of-the-art hashing-based image retrieval systems, for each image, local descriptors are first aggregated as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Thanh-Toan Do , Khoa Le , Tuan Hoang , Huu Le , Tam V. Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Embedding models have demonstrated strong performance in tasks like clustering, retrieval, and feature extraction while offering computational advantages over generative models and cross-encoders. Benchmarks such as MTEB have shown that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Zhuohao Li , Wenqing Chen , Jianxing Yu , Zhichao Lu

Binary embedding of high-dimensional data requires long codes to preserve the discriminative power of the input space. Traditional binary coding methods often suffer from very high computation and storage costs in such a scenario. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-05-14 Felix X. Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , Yunchao Gong , Shih-Fu Chang

Malware authors are continuously evolving their code base to include counter-analysis methods that can significantly hinder their detection and blocking. While the execution of malware in a sandboxed environment may provide a lot of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Vasilis Vouvoutsis , Fran Casino , Constantinos Patsakis

Learning binary representation is essential to large-scale computer vision tasks. Most existing algorithms require a separate quantization constraint to learn effective hashing functions. In this work, we present Direct Binary Embedding…

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