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Adversarial examples crafted by an explicit adversary have attracted significant attention in machine learning. However, the security risk posed by a potential false friend has been largely overlooked. In this paper, we unveil the threat of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Lue Tao , Lei Feng , Jinfeng Yi , Songcan Chen

Continuous queries over data streams may suffer from blocking operations and/or unbound wait, which may delay answers until some relevant input arrives through the data stream. These delays may turn answers, when they arrive, obsolete to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Luís Cruz-Filipe , Graça Gaspar , Isabel Nunes

We study a hypothesis testing problem in which data is compressed distributively and sent to a detector that seeks to decide between two possible distributions for the data. The aim is to characterize all achievable encoding rates and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Md. Saifur Rahman , Aaron B. Wagner

Static source code analysis is a powerful tool for finding and fixing bugs when deployed properly; it is, however, all too easy to deploy it in a way that looks good superficially, but which misses important defects, shows many false…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Flash Sheridan

Many debugging tools rely on compiler-produced metadata to present a source-language view of program states, such as variable values and source line numbers. While this tends to work for unoptimised programs, current compilers often…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-02-08 J. Ryan Stinnett , Stephen Kell

Context. Recent studies show that developers spend most of their programming time testing, verifying and debugging software. As applications become more and more complex, developers demand more advanced debugging support to ease the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Matteo Marra , Guillermo Polito , Elisa Gonzalez Boix

A single-sensor two-detectors system is considered where the sensor communicates with both detectors and Detector 1 communicates with Detector 2, all over noise-free rate-limited links. The sensor and both detectors observe discrete…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Pierre Escamilla , Michèle Wigger , Abdellatif Zaidi

Non-deterministically passing and failing test cases, so-called flaky tests, have recently become a focus area of software engineering research. While this research focus has been met with some enthusiastic endorsement from industry, prior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Martin Gruber , Gordon Fraser

In this tool demonstration, we give an overview of the Chameleon type debugger. The type debugger's primary use is to identify locations within a source program which are involved in a type error. By further examining these (potentially)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Peter J. Stuckey , Martin Sulzmann , Jeremy Wazny

The clustering technique has attracted a lot of attention as a promising strategy for parallel debugging in multi-fault scenarios, this heuristic approach (i.e., failure indexing or fault isolation) enables developers to perform multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yi Song , Xiaoyuan Xie , Quanming Liu , Xihao Zhang , Xi Wu

Debugging a machine learning model is hard since the bug usually involves the training data and the learning process. This becomes even harder for an opaque deep learning model if we have no clue about how the model actually works. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Piyawat Lertvittayakumjorn , Francesca Toni

The programming language Prolog makes declarative programming possible, at least to a substantial extent. Programs may be written and reasoned about in terms of their declarative semantics. All the advantages of declarative programming are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Włodzimierz Drabent

The effectiveness of AI debugging follows a predictable exponential decay pattern; most models lose 60-80% of their debugging capability within just 2-3 attempts, despite iterative debugging being a critical capability for practical code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Muntasir Adnan , Carlos C. N. Kuhn

Modern statisticians are often presented with hundreds or thousands of hypothesis testing problems to evaluate at the same time, generated from new scientific technologies such as microarrays, medical and satellite imaging devices, or flow…

Applications · Statistics 2008-12-18 Bradley Efron

Failures in optical network backbone can lead to major disruption of internet data traffic. Hence, minimizing such failures is of paramount importance for the network operators. Even better, if the network failures can be predicted and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Dibakar Das , Mohammad Fahad Imteyaz , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

Statistical fault localization is an easily deployed technique for quickly determining candidates for faulty code locations. If a human programmer has to search the fault beyond the top candidate locations, though, more traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Ezekiel Soremekun , Lukas Kirschner , Marcel Böhme , Andreas Zeller

The best currently known interactive debugging systems rely upon some meta-information in terms of fault probabilities in order to improve their efficiency. However, misleading meta information might result in a dramatic decrease of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Patrick Rodler , Kostyantyn Shchekotykhin , Philipp Fleiss , Gerhard Friedrich

Defect predictors, static bug detectors and humans inspecting the code can locate the parts of the program that are buggy before they are discovered through testing. Automated test generators such as search-based software testing (SBST)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Anjana Perera , Burak Turhan , Aldeida Aleti , Marcel Böhme

We study the helpful product reviews identification problem in this paper. We observe that the evidence-conclusion discourse relations, also known as arguments, often appear in product reviews, and we hypothesise that some argument-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Haijing Liu , Yang Gao , Pin Lv , Mengxue Li , Shiqiang Geng , Minglan Li , Hao Wang

The HCI community commonly evaluates decision support systems based on whether they improve task performance or promote appropriate user reliance. In this work, we look beyond decision outcomes to examine the process through which users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Michaela Benk , Tim Miller