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This study addresses the challenge of reverse engineering binaries from unknown instruction set architectures, a complex task with potential implications for software maintenance and cyber-security. We focus on the tasks of detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Håvard Pettersen , Donn Morrison

Function name prediction is crucial for understanding stripped binaries in software reverse engineering, a key step for \textbf{enabling subsequent vulnerability analysis and patching}. However, existing approaches often struggle with…

Existing defects in software components is unavoidable and leads to not only a waste of time and money but also many serious consequences. To build predictive models, previous studies focus on manually extracting features or using tree…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Anh Viet Phan , Minh Le Nguyen , Lam Thu Bui

Mission-critical embedded software is critical to our society's infrastructure but can be subject to new security vulnerabilities as technology advances. When security issues arise, Reverse Engineers (REs) use Software Reverse Engineering…

In this paper we investigate the problem of automatically naming pieces of assembly code. Where by naming we mean assigning to an assembly function a string of words that would likely be assigned by a human reverse engineer. We formally and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Fiorella Artuso , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Luca Massarelli , Leonardo Querzoni

Decompilation aims to recover the source code form of a binary executable. It has many security applications, such as malware analysis, vulnerability detection, and code hardening. A prominent challenge in decompilation is to recover…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiangzhe Xu , Zhuo Zhang , Zian Su , Ziyang Huang , Shiwei Feng , Yapeng Ye , Nan Jiang , Danning Xie , Siyuan Cheng , Lin Tan , Xiangyu Zhang

Reverse engineering of binary executables is a critical problem in the computer security domain. On the one hand, malicious parties may recover interpretable source codes from the software products to gain commercial advantages. On the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Cheng Fu , Huili Chen , Haolan Liu , Xinyun Chen , Yuandong Tian , Farinaz Koushanfar , Jishen Zhao

Reverse-engineering bar charts extracts textual and numeric information from the visual representations of bar charts to support application scenarios that require the underlying information. In this paper, we propose a neural network-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Fangfang Zhou , Yong Zhao , Wenjiang Chen , Yijing Tan , Yaqi Xu , Yi Chen , Chao Liu , Ying Zhao

Production software oftentimes suffers from the issue of performance inefficiencies caused by inappropriate use of data structures, programming abstractions, and conservative compiler optimizations. It is desirable to avoid unnecessary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Yixin Guo , Pengcheng Li , Yingwei Luo , Xiaolin Wang , Zhenlin Wang

Binary code similarity detection is a core task in reverse engineering. It supports malware analysis and vulnerability discovery by identifying semantically similar code in different contexts. Modern methods have progressed from manually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Charles E. Gagnon , Steven H. H. Ding , Philippe Charland , Benjamin C. M. Fung

Sensing the fluid flow around an arbitrary geometry entails extrapolating from the physical quantities perceived at its surface in order to reconstruct the features of the surrounding fluid. This is a challenging inverse problem, yet one…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Gregory Duthé , Imad Abdallah , Sarah Barber , Eleni Chatzi

Optimizing the execution time of tensor program, e.g., a convolution, involves finding its optimal configuration. Searching the configuration space exhaustively is typically infeasible in practice. In line with recent research using TVM, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-28 Jakub M. Tomczak , Romain Lepert , Auke Wiggers

The decompiler is one of the most common tools for examining binaries without corresponding source code. It transforms binaries into high-level code, reversing the compilation process. Decompilers can reconstruct much of the information…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jeremy Lacomis , Pengcheng Yin , Edward J. Schwartz , Miltiadis Allamanis , Claire Le Goues , Graham Neubig , Bogdan Vasilescu

Static analysis plays a key role in finding bugs, including security issues. A critical step in static analysis is building accurate call graphs that model function calls in a program. However, due to hard-to-analyze language features,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan , Gianluca De Stefano , Giancarlo Pellegrino , Cristian-Alexandru Staicu

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Toufique Ahmed , Premkumar Devanbu , Anand Ashok Sawant

Recovering binary programs' call graphs is crucial for inter-procedural analysis tasks and applications based on them.transfer One of the core challenges is recognizing targets of indirect calls (i.e., indirect callees). Existing solutions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Wenyu Zhu , Zhiyao Feng , Zihan Zhang , Jianjun Chen , Zhijian Ou , Min Yang , Chao Zhang

Graph neural networks trained to predict observable dynamics can be used to decompose the temporal activity of complex heterogeneous systems into simple, interpretable representations. Here we apply this framework to simulated neural…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-17 Cédric Allier , Larissa Heinrich , Magdalena Schneider , Stephan Saalfeld

Many engineered as well as naturally occurring dynamical systems do not have an accurate mathematical model to describe their dynamic behavior. However, in many applications, it is possible to probe the system with external inputs and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Vignesh Narayanan , Wei Miao , Jr-Shin Li

Deep learning-based approaches for software vulnerability prediction currently mainly rely on the original text of software code as the feature of nodes in the graph of code and thus could learn a representation that is only specific to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jinghua Groppe , Sven Groppe , Ralf Möller

The goal of decompilation is to convert compiled low-level code (e.g., assembly code) back into high-level programming languages, enabling analysis in scenarios where source code is unavailable. This task supports various reverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yunlong Feng , Bohan Li , Xiaoming Shi , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che
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