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Due to its open-source nature, the Android operating system has consistently been a primary target for attackers. Learning-based methods have made significant progress in the field of Android malware detection. However, traditional…

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Data driven research on Android has gained a great momentum these years. The abundance of data facilitates knowledge learning, however, also increases the difficulty of data preprocessing. Therefore, it is non-trivial to prepare a demanding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Guozhu Meng , Yinxing Xue , Jing Kai Siow , Ting Su , Annamalai Narayanan , Yang Liu

Android apps have become a valuable target for app modifiers and imitators due to its popularity and being trusted with highly sensitive data. Packers, on the other hand, protect apps from tampering with various anti-analysis techniques…

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Deep learning has emerged as a promising technology for achieving Android malware detection. To further unleash its detection potentials, software visualization can be integrated for analyzing the details of app behaviors clearly. However,…

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Verification of numerical accuracy properties in modern software remains an important and challenging task. This paper describes an original framework combining different solutions for numerical accuracy. First, we extend an existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Maxime Jacquemin , Fonenantsoa Maurica , Nikolai Kosmatov , Julien Signoles , Franck Védrine

Measuring and evaluating source code similarity is a fundamental software engineering activity that embraces a broad range of applications, including but not limited to code recommendation, duplicate code, plagiarism, malware, and smell…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Morteza Zakeri-Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa , Mohammad Ramezani , Chanchal Roy , Masoud Ekhtiarzadeh

Android is the most widely used smartphone OS with 82.8% market share in 2015. It is therefore the most widely targeted system by malware authors. Researchers rely on dynamic analysis to extract malware behaviors and often use emulators to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Paul Irolla , Eric Filiol

Fragmentation is a serious problem in the Android ecosystem. This problem is mainly caused by the fast evolution of the system itself and the various customizations independently maintained by different smartphone manufacturers. Many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Pei Liu , Yanjie Zhao , Haipeng Cai , Mattia Fazzini , John Grundy , Li Li

With the Increasing use of Machine Learning in Android applications, more research and efforts are being put into developing better-performing machine learning algorithms with a vast amount of data. Along with machine learning for mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Aryan Verma

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

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Coverage closure is the most time-consuming phase of hardware verification, and recent large language model (LLM)-based coding agents offer a promising approach to automated stimulus generation. However, prior LLM-based flows do not…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Vihaan Patel , Vidya Chhabria , Aman Arora

Android, the #1 mobile app framework, enforces the single-GUI-thread model, in which a single UI thread manages GUI rendering and event dispatching. Due to this model, it is vital to avoid blocking the UI thread for responsiveness. One…

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Precise, correct feedback is crucial for effectively training large language models (LLMs) in code reinforcement learning. However, synthesizing high-quality test cases remains a profoundly challenging and unsolved problem. In this work, we…

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The rapidly evolving Android malware ecosystem demands high-quality, real-time datasets as a foundation for effective detection and defense. With the widespread adoption of mobile devices across industrial systems, they have become a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hongpeng Bai , Minhong Dong , Yao Zhang , Shunzhe Zhao , Haobo Zhang , Lingyue Li , Yude Bai , Guangquan Xu

Verification is a critical process for ensuring the correctness of modern processors. The increasing complexity of processor designs and the emergence of new instruction set architectures (ISAs) like RISC-V have created demands for more…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yang Zhong , Haoran Wu , Xueqi Li , Sa Wang , David Boland , Yungang Bao , Kan Shi

With the digital breakthrough, smart phones have become very essential component. Mobile devices are very attractive attack surface for cyber thieves as they hold personal details (accounts, locations, contacts, photos) and have potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Shweta Bhandari , Wafa Ben Jaballah , Vineeta Jain , Vijay Laxmi , Akka Zemmari , Manoj Singh Gaur , Mohamed Mosbah , Mauro Conti

For the dramatic increase of Android malware and low efficiency of manual check process, deep learning methods started to be an auxiliary means for Android malware detection these years. However, these models are highly dependent on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Ji Wang , Qi Jing , Jianbo Gao

We introduce KodCode, a synthetic dataset that addresses the persistent challenge of acquiring high-quality, verifiable training data across diverse difficulties and domains for training Large Language Models for coding. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhangchen Xu , Yang Liu , Yueqin Yin , Mingyuan Zhou , Radha Poovendran

An Android-based smart Television (TV) must reliably run its applications in an embedded program environment under diverse hardware resource conditions. Owing to the diverse hardware components used to build numerous TV models, TV…

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