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A C decompiler converts an executable into source code. The recovered C source code, once re-compiled, is expected to produce an executable with the same functionality as the original executable. With over twenty years of development, C…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Wai Kin Wong , Huaijin Wang , Zongjie Li , Zhibo Liu , Shuai Wang , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu

Decompilation -- recovering source code from compiled binaries -- is essential for security analysis, malware reverse engineering, and legacy software maintenance. However, existing decompilers produce code that often fails to compile or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yifan Zhang , Xiaohan Wang , Yueke Zhang , Yu Huang , Kevin Leach

Type recovery is a crucial step in binary code analysis, holding significant importance for reverse engineering and various security applications. Existing works typically simply target type identifiers within binary code and achieve type…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Gangyang Li , Xiuwei Shang , Shaoyin Cheng , Junqi Zhang , Li Hu , Xu Zhu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

In this paper, we explore a novel knowledge-transfer task, termed as Deep Model Reassembly (DeRy), for general-purpose model reuse. Given a collection of heterogeneous models pre-trained from distinct sources and with diverse architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Xingyi Yang , Daquan Zhou , Songhua Liu , Jingwen Ye , Xinchao Wang

Information retrieval (IR) or knowledge retrieval, is a critical component for many down-stream tasks such as open-domain question answering (QA). It is also very challenging, as it requires succinctness, completeness, and correctness. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Xiaodong Yu , Ben Zhou , Dan Roth

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

With distributed machine learning being a prominent technique for large-scale machine learning tasks, communication complexity has become a major bottleneck for speeding up training and scaling up machine numbers. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Pengyun Yue , Hanzhen Zhao , Cong Fang , Di He , Liwei Wang , Zhouchen Lin , Song-chun Zhu

Image demoir\'eing aims to remove structured moir\'e artifacts in recaptured imagery, where degradations are highly frequency-dependent and vary across scales and directions. While recent deep networks achieve high-quality restoration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zheng Chen , Zhi Yang , Xiaoyang Liu , Weihang Zhang , Mengfan Wang , Yifan Fu , Linghe Kong , Yulun Zhang

Regularization by denoising (RED) is an image reconstruction framework that uses an image denoiser as a prior. Recent work has shown the state-of-the-art performance of RED with learned denoisers corresponding to pre-trained convolutional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Jiaming Liu , Yu Sun , Cihat Eldeniz , Weijie Gan , Hongyu An , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Extract local variable is one of the most popular refactorings, and most IDEs and refactoring tools provide automated support for this refactoring. However, we find approximately 70% of the names recommended by these IDEs are different from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Taiming Wang , Hui Liu , Yuxia Zhang , Yanjie Jiang

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a pivotal and complex task in multimodal understanding. Current CIR benchmarks typically feature limited query categories and fail to capture the diverse requirements of real-world scenarios. To bridge this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Tingyu Song , Yanzhao Zhang , Mingxin Li , Zhuoning Guo , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Siyue Zhang , Yilun Zhao , Shu Wu

Rapid advances in GPU hardware and multiple areas of Deep Learning open up a new opportunity for billion-scale information retrieval with exhaustive search. Building on top of the powerful concept of semantic learning, this paper proposes a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Ying Shan , Jian Jiao , Jie Zhu , JC Mao

A private information retrieval (PIR) scheme is a protocol that allows a user to retrieve a file from a database without revealing the identity of the desired file to a curious database. Given a distributed data storage system, efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Camilla Hollanti , Neehar Verma

A Dockerfile defines a set of instructions to build Docker images, which can then be instantiated to support containerized applications. Recent studies have revealed a considerable amount of quality issues with Dockerfiles. In this paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Yu Zhou , Weilin Zhan , Zi Li , Tingting Han , Taolue Chen , Harald Gall

Disassembly is fundamental to binary analysis and rewriting. We present a novel disassembly technique that takes a stripped binary and produces reassembleable assembly code. The resulting assembly code has accurate symbolic information,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Antonio Flores-Montoya , Eric Schulte

High-dimensional dense embeddings have become central to modern Information Retrieval, but many dimensions are noisy or redundant. Recently proposed DIME (Dimension IMportance Estimation), provides query-dependent scores to identify…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Giulio D'Erasmo , Cesare Campagnano , Antonio Mallia , Pierpaolo Brutti , Nicola Tonellotto , Fabrizio Silvestri

We present BIEBER (Byte-IdEntical Binary parsER), the first system to model and regenerate a full working parser from instrumented program executions. To achieve this, BIEBER exploits the regularity (e.g., header fields and array-like data…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Thurston H. Y. Dang , Jose P. Cambronero , Martin C. Rinard

Compiler optimization level recognition can be applied to vulnerability discovery and binary analysis. Due to the exists of many different compilation optimization options, the difference in the contents of the binary file is very…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Shouguo Yang , Zhiqiang Shi , Guodong Zhang , Mingxuan Li , Yuan Ma , Limin Sun

A new computational private information retrieval (PIR) scheme based on random linear codes is presented. A matrix of messages from a McEliece scheme is used to query the server with carefully chosen errors. The server responds with the sum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Lukas Holzbaur , Camilla Hollanti , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Software tracing techniques are well-established and used by instrumentation tools to extract run-time information for program analysis and debugging. Dynamic binary instrumentation as one tool instruments program binaries to extract…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Pansy Arafa , Hany Kashif , Sebastian Fischmeister