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Fuzzing is widely used for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities, with various techniques proposed to enhance its effectiveness. To combine the advantages of multiple technologies, researchers proposed ensemble fuzzing, which integrates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yukai Zhao , Shaohua Wang , Jue Wang , Xing Hu , Xin Xia

Fuzz testing is one of the most effective techniques for finding software vulnerabilities. While modern fuzzers can generate inputs and monitor executions automatically, the overall workflow, from analyzing a codebase, to configuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Max Bazalii , Marius Fleischer

The control logic models built by Simulink or Ptolemy have been widely used in industry scenes. It is an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of the control logic models. Test case generation technologies are widely used to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yixiao Yang

Concolic testing, a powerful hybrid software testing technique, has historically been plagued by fundamental limitations such as path explosion and the high cost of constraint solving, which hinder its practical application in large-scale,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mahdi Eslamimehr

With the wide use of Deep Learning (DL) systems, academy and industry begin to pay attention to their quality. Testing is one of the major methods of quality assurance. However, existing testing techniques focus on the quality of DL models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Weisi Luo , Dong Chai , Xiaoyue Run , Jiang Wang , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen

Coverage guided fuzzing (CGF) is an effective testing technique which has detected hundreds of thousands of bugs from various software applications. It focuses on maximizing code coverage to reveal more bugs during fuzzing. However, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Ruixiang Qian , Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Lihua Guo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained widespread use in various applications due to their powerful capability to generate human-like text. However, prompt injection attacks, which involve overwriting a model's original instructions with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jiahao Yu , Yangguang Shao , Hanwen Miao , Junzheng Shi

To ensure the reliability of DNN systems and address the test generation problem for neural networks, this paper proposes a fuzzing test generation technique based on many-objective optimization algorithms. Traditional fuzz testing employs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Dongcheng Li , W. Eric Wong , Hu Liu , Man Zhao

Fuzzing is an effective bug-finding technique but it struggles with complex systems like JavaScript engines that demand precise grammatical input. Recently, researchers have adopted language models for context-aware mutation in fuzzing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jueon Eom , Seyeon Jeong , Taekyoung Kwon

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a powerful algorithm for solving complex decision-making problems. This paper presents an optimized MCTS implementation applied to the FrozenLake environment, a classic reinforcement learning task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Esteban Aldana Guerra

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized software testing, particularly fuzz testing, by automating the generation of diverse and effective test inputs. This advancement holds great promise for improving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Linghan Huang , Peizhou Zhao , Huaming Chen

Deep learning-based code processing models have shown good performance for tasks such as predicting method names, summarizing programs, and comment generation. However, despite the tremendous progress, deep learning models are often prone…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Moshi Wei , Yuchao Huang , Jinqiu Yang , Junjie Wang , Song Wang

The statefulness property of network protocol implementations poses a unique challenge for testing and verification techniques, including Fuzzing. Stateful fuzzers tackle this challenge by leveraging state models to partition the state…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Dongge Liu , Van-Thuan Pham , Gidon Ernst , Toby Murray , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

Fuzzing is the process of finding security vulnerabilities in input-processing code by repeatedly testing the code with modified inputs. In this paper, we formalize fuzzing as a reinforcement learning problem using the concept of Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Konstantin Böttinger , Patrice Godefroid , Rishabh Singh

Fuzzing is a commonly used technique designed to test software by automatically crafting program inputs. Currently, the most successful fuzzing algorithms emphasize simple, low-overhead strategies with the ability to efficiently monitor…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-20 William Drozd , Michael D. Wagner

We introduce an approach aimed at enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) through an iterative preference learning process inspired by the successful strategy employed by AlphaZero. Our work leverages Monte…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yuxi Xie , Anirudh Goyal , Wenyue Zheng , Min-Yen Kan , Timothy P. Lillicrap , Kenji Kawaguchi , Michael Shieh

The success of a fuzzing campaign is heavily depending on the quality of seed inputs used for test generation. It is however challenging to compose a corpus of seed inputs that enable high code and behavior coverage of the target program,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Liang Cheng , Yang Zhang , Yi Zhang , Chen Wu , Zhangtan Li , Yu Fu , Haisheng Li

As machine learning gains prominence in various sectors of society for automated decision-making, concerns have risen regarding potential vulnerabilities in machine learning (ML) frameworks. Nevertheless, testing these frameworks is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Zhao Liu , Quanchen Zou , Tian Yu , Xuan Wang , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Deyue Zhang

Testing Deep Neural Network (DNN) models has become more important than ever with the increasing usage of DNN models in safety-critical domains such as autonomous cars. The traditional approach of testing DNNs is to create a test set, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Samet Demir , Hasan Ferit Eniser , Alper Sen

Greybox fuzzing is one of the most popular methods for detecting software vulnerabilities, which conducts a biased random search within the program input space. To enhance its effectiveness in achieving deep coverage of program behaviors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury
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