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Binary Code Similarity Analysis (BCSA) has a wide spectrum of applications, including plagiarism detection, vulnerability discovery, and malware analysis, thus drawing significant attention from the security community. However, conventional…

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In this work novel results concerning Network-on-Chip-based turbo decoder architectures are presented. Stemming from previous publications, this work concentrates first on improving the throughput by exploiting adaptive-bandwidth reduction…

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Binary code similarity analysis (BCSA) is widely used for diverse security applications, including plagiarism detection, software license violation detection, and vulnerability discovery. Despite the surging research interest in BCSA, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Dongkwan Kim , Eunsoo Kim , Sang Kil Cha , Sooel Son , Yongdae Kim

We introduce a novel hybrid quantum-classical variational optimization method for unconstrained binary combinatorial optimization problems on gate-model quantum computers, integrating a custom variational ansatz, staged feedback-based dual…

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) plays a crucial role in numerous fields, including vulnerability detection, malware analysis, and code reuse identification. As IoT devices proliferate and rapidly evolve, their highly heterogeneous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xiuwei Shang , Li Hu , Shaoyin Cheng , Guoqiang Chen , Benlong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of FineIBT: a CFI enforcement mechanism that improves the precision of hardware-assisted CFI solutions, like Intel IBT, by instrumenting program code to reduce the valid/allowed targets…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Alexander J. Gaidis , Joao Moreira , Ke Sun , Alyssa Milburn , Vaggelis Atlidakis , Vasileios P. Kemerlis

In recent years, fuzzing has been widely applied not only to application software but also to system software, including the Linux kernel and firmware, and has become a powerful technique for vulnerability discovery. Among these approaches,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Masami Ichikawa

Binary code similarity detection (BCSD) has important applications in various fields such as vulnerability detection, software component analysis, and reverse engineering. Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks (DNNs) can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Hao Wang , Wenjie Qu , Gilad Katz , Wenyu Zhu , Zeyu Gao , Han Qiu , Jianwei Zhuge , Chao Zhang

Toward robust malware detection, we explore the attack surface of existing malware detection systems. We conduct root-cause analyses of the practical binary-level black-box adversarial malware examples. Additionally, we uncover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Ahmed Abusnaina , Yizhen Wang , Sunpreet Arora , Ke Wang , Mihai Christodorescu , David Mohaisen

Federated bilevel optimization (FBO) has shown great potential recently in machine learning and edge computing due to the emerging nested optimization structure in meta-learning, fine-tuning, hyperparameter tuning, etc. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yifan Yang , Peiyao Xiao , Kaiyi Ji

Existing visual token pruning methods target prompt alignment and visual preservation with static strategies, overlooking the varying relative importance of these objectives across tasks, which leads to inconsistent performance. To address…

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Coverage-guided fuzzing's aggressive, high-volume testing has helped reveal tens of thousands of software security flaws. While executing billions of test cases mandates fast code coverage tracing, the nature of binary-only targets leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Stefan Nagy , Anh Nguyen-Tuong , Jason D. Hiser , Jack W. Davidson , Matthew Hicks

The bbob-largescale test suite, containing 24 single-objective functions in continuous domain, extends the well-known single-objective noiseless bbob test suite, which has been used since 2009 in the BBOB workshop series, to large…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Ouassim Elhara , Konstantinos Varelas , Duc Nguyen , Tea Tusar , Dimo Brockhoff , Nikolaus Hansen , Anne Auger

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) significantly reduce computational complexity and memory usage in machine and deep learning by representing weights and activations with just one bit. However, most existing training algorithms for BNNs rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Luca Colombo , Fabrizio Pittorino , Manuel Roveri

Fuzzing -- testing programs with random inputs -- has become the prime technique to detect bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. To generate inputs that cover new functionality, fuzzers require execution feedback from the program -- for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rahul Gopinath , Bachir Bendrissou , Björn Mathis , Andreas Zeller

Binary code similarity analysis (BCSA) serves as a foundational technique for binary analysis tasks such as vulnerability detection and malware identification. Existing graph based BCSA approaches capture more binary code semantics and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yufeng Wang , Yuhong Feng , Yixuan Cao , Haoran Li , Haiyue Feng , Yifeng Wang

Acoustic borehole images provide high-resolution borehole-wall structure, but large-scale interpretation remains difficult because dense expert annotations are rarely available and subsurface information is intrinsically multimodal. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jose Luis Lima de Jesus Silva

Bayesian conformal optimisation methods often use the same held-out data both to search for efficient prediction sets and to certify coverage or risk. This coupling is natural for high-probability risk-control guarantees, but it is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fanyi Wu , Lihua Niu , Samuel Kaski , Michele Caprio

The medium-density parity-check (MDPC) code-based Bit Flipping Key Encapsulation (BIKE) mechanism remains a candidate of post-quantum cryptography standardization. The latest version utilizes a new bit-flipping (BF) decoding algorithm,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiaxuan Cai , Xinmiao Zhang

To reduce the source of potential exploits, binary debloating or specialization tools are used to remove unnecessary code from binaries. This paper presents a new binary debloating and specialization tool, LeanBin, that harnesses lifting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Igor Wodiany , Antoniu Pop , Mikel Luján