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In this paper, we present a novel attack against authorship attribution of source code. We exploit that recent attribution methods rest on machine learning and thus can be deceived by adversarial examples of source code. Our attack performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Erwin Quiring , Alwin Maier , Konrad Rieck

Programmer attribution seeks to identify or verify the author of a source code artifact using stylistic, structural, or behavioural characteristics. This problem has been studied across software engineering, security, and digital forensics,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Marek Horvath , Emilia Pietrikova , Diomidis Spinellis

Source code authorship attribution is important in software forensics, plagiarism detection, and protecting software patch integrity. Existing techniques often rely on supervised machine learning, which struggles with generalization across…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Soohyeon Choi , Yong Kiam Tan , Mark Huasong Meng , Mohamed Ragab , Soumik Mondal , David Mohaisen , Khin Mi Mi Aung

Authorship attribution mainly deals with undecided authorship of literary texts. Authorship attribution is useful in resolving issues like uncertain authorship, recognize authorship of unknown texts, spot plagiarism so on. Statistical…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-10-21 M. Sudheep Elayidom , Chinchu Jose , Anitta Puthussery , Neenu K Sasi

Accurate attribution of authorship is crucial for maintaining the integrity of digital content, improving forensic investigations, and mitigating the risks of misinformation and plagiarism. Addressing the imperative need for proper…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Baixiang Huang , Canyu Chen , Kai Shu

Source Code Authorship Attribution (SCAA) is crucial for software classification because it provides insights into the origin and behavior of software. By accurately identifying the author or group behind a piece of code, experts can better…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Bhaskar Joshi , Sepideh HajiHossein Khani , Arash HabibiLashkari

The source code of a program not only defines its semantics but also contains subtle clues that can identify its author. Several studies have shown that these clues can be automatically extracted using machine learning and allow for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Micha Horlboge , Erwin Quiring , Roland Meyer , Konrad Rieck

Source code authorship attribution is an important problem often encountered in applications such as software forensics, bug fixing, and software quality analysis. Recent studies show that current source code authorship attribution methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhen Li , Guenevere , Chen , Chen Chen , Yayi Zou , Shouhuai Xu

Source code segment authorship identification is the task of identifying the author of a source code segment through supervised learning. It has vast importance in plagiarism detection, digital forensics, and several other law enforcement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Parvez Mahbub , Naz Zarreen Oishie , S M Rafizul Haque

Program authorship attribution has implications for the privacy of programmers who wish to contribute code anonymously. While previous work has shown that complete files that are individually authored can be attributed, we show here for the…

Authorship attribution is the problem of identifying the most plausible author of an anonymous text from a set of candidate authors. Researchers have investigated same-topic and cross-topic scenarios of authorship attribution, which differ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Malik H. Altakrori , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Benjamin C. M. Fung

This paper contributes in developing source code plagiarism detection that is more aligned with human perspective. Three evaluation mechanisms that directly relate human perspective with evaluated approaches are proposed: think-aloud,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Oscar Karnalim , Lisan Sulistiani

Authorship attribution refers to the task of automatically determining the author based on a given sample of text. It is a problem with a long history and has a wide range of application. Building author profiles using language models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Zhenhao Ge , Yufang Sun

We describe a technique for attributing parts of a written text to a set of unknown authors. Nothing is assumed to be known a priori about the writing styles of potential authors. We use multiple independent clusterings of an input text to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-27 David Fifield , Torbjørn Follan , Emil Lunde

Authorship identification tasks, which rely heavily on linguistic styles, have always been an important part of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) research. While other tasks based on linguistic style understanding benefit from deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Weicheng Ma , Ruibo Liu , Lili Wang , Soroush Vosoughi

There are many occasions in which the security community is interested to discover the authorship of malware binaries, either for digital forensics analysis of malware corpora or for thwarting live threats of malware invasion. Such a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Saed Alrabaee , Paria Shirani , Mourad Debbabi , Lingyu Wang

The article presents a system for testing the independence of solutions to algorithmic problems sent by students as part of the student programming competition. First, the context was discussed, as well as the need to organize programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Zenon Gniazdowski , Maciej Boniecki

Authorship Attribution is a long-standing problem in Natural Language Processing. Several statistical and computational methods have been used to find a solution to this problem. In this paper, we have proposed methods to deal with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Shanta Phani , Shibamouli Lahiri , Arindam Biswas

Authorship identification is a process in which the author of a text is identified. Most known literary texts can easily be attributed to a certain author because they are, for example, signed. Yet sometimes we find unfinished pieces of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer , Carolyn Penstein Rose

Descriptive comments play a crucial role in the software engineering process. They decrease development time, enable better bug detection, and facilitate the reuse of previously written code. However, comments are commonly the last of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Jessica Moore , Ben Gelman , David Slater
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