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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in recent years, driving their adoption across a wide range of domains, including computer security. In reverse engineering, LLMs are increasingly applied to critical tasks such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jun Yeon Won , Xin Jin , Shiqing Ma , Zhiqiang Lin

Decompilation is foundational to binary analysis, yet conventional tools prioritize human readability over strict recompilability and verifiable runtime correctness. While recent LLM-based approaches attempt to refine decompiled pseudocode,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuxin Cui , Zeyu Gao , Shuxian He , Siliang Qin , Chao Zhang

While much of the current research in deep learning-based vulnerability detection relies on disassembled binaries, this paper explores the feasibility of extracting features directly from raw x86-64 machine code. Although assembly language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mitchell Petingola

Unfolding, in the context of high-energy particle physics, refers to the process of removing detector distortions in experimental data. The resulting unfolded measurements are straightforward to use for direct comparisons between…

The scale of Android applications in the market is growing rapidly. To efficiently detect the malicious behavior in these applications, an array of static analysis tools are proposed. However, static analysis tools suffer from code hiding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Zhenyu Ning , Fengwei 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 tools remain monolithic and imperative compared to the advancement of modern compiler architectures: analyses are tied to a single mutable representation, making them difficult to extend or refine, and forcing premature…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Chang Liu , Yihao Sun , Thomas Gilray , Kristopher Micinski

Widely used complex code refactoring tools lack a solid reasoning about the correctness of the transformations they implement, whilst interest in proven correct refactoring is ever increasing as only formal verification can provide true…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Dániel Horpácsi , Judit Kőszegi , Zoltán Horváth

Machine learning has proved to be a useful tool for extracting knowledge from scientific data in numerous research fields, including astrophysics, genomics, and molecular dynamics. Often, data sets from these research areas need to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Javier Álvarez Cid-Fuentes , Pol Álvarez , Salvi Solà , Kuninori Ishii , Rafael K. Morizawa , Rosa M. Badia

We study the problem of rewriting a disjunctive datalog program into plain datalog. We show that a disjunctive program is rewritable if and only if it is equivalent to a linear disjunctive program, thus providing a novel characterisation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-14 Mark Kaminski , Yavor Nenov , Bernardo Cuenca Grau

Retrieving binary code via natural language queries is a pivotal capability for downstream tasks in the software security domain, such as vulnerability detection and malware analysis. However, it is challenging to identify binary functions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Guoqiang Chen , Lingyun Ying , Ziyang Song , Daguang Liu , Qiang Wang , Zhiqi Wang , Li Hu , Shaoyin Cheng , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Reversible debuggers have been developed at least since 1970. Such a feature is useful when the cause of a bug is close in time to the bug manifestation. When the cause is far back in time, one resorts to setting appropriate breakpoints in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Kapil Arya , Tyler Denniston , Ana-Maria Visan , Gene Cooperman

This paper addresses the problem of learning binary hash codes for large scale image search by proposing a novel hashing method based on deep neural network. The advantage of our deep model over previous deep model used in hashing is that…

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Redescription mining is a data analysis technique that has found applications in diverse fields. The most used redescription mining approaches involve two phases: finding matching pairs among data attributes and extending the pairs. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Maiju Karjalainen , Esther Galbrun , Pauli Miettinen

Two-level logic minimization is a central problem in logic synthesis, and has applications in reliability analysis and automated reasoning. This paper represents a method of minimizing Boolean sum of products function with binary decision…

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Security experts reverse engineer (decompile) binary code to identify critical security vulnerabilities. The limited access to source code in vital systems - such as firmware, drivers, and proprietary software used in Critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dylan Manuel , Nafis Tanveer Islam , Joseph Khoury , Ana Nunez , Elias Bou-Harb , Peyman Najafirad

Understanding binary code is an essential but complex software engineering task for reverse engineering, malware analysis, and compiler optimization. Unlike source code, binary code has limited semantic information, which makes it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Yifan Zhang

The task of reassembly is a significant challenge across multiple domains, including archaeology, genomics, and molecular docking, requiring the precise placement and orientation of elements to reconstruct an original structure. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Adeela Islam , Stefano Fiorini , Stuart James , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue

Binary analysis plays a pivotal role in security domains such as malware detection and vulnerability discovery, yet it remains labor-intensive and heavily reliant on expert knowledge. General-purpose large language models (LLMs) perform…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Guoqiang Chen , Huiqi Sun , Daguang Liu , Zhiqi Wang , Qiang Wang , Bin Yin , Lu Liu , Lingyun Ying

We have developed a method for the linear reconstruction of an image from undersampled, dithered data. The algorithm, known as Variable-Pixel Linear Reconstruction, or informally as Drizzle, preserves photometry and resolution, can weight…

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