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With the rapid increase in the amount of public code repositories, developers maintain a great desire to retrieve precise code snippets by using natural language. Despite existing deep learning based approaches(e.g., DeepCS and MMAN) have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Chen Zeng , Yue Yu , Shanshan Li , Xin Xia , Zhiming Wang , Mingyang Geng , Bailin Xiao , Wei Dong , Xiangke Liao

We present CV4Code, a compact and effective computer vision method for sourcecode understanding. Our method leverages the contextual and the structural information available from the code snippet by treating each snippet as a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Ruibo Shi , Lili Tao , Rohan Saphal , Fran Silavong , Sean J. Moran

Knowledge graphs have shown promise for several cybersecurity tasks, such as vulnerability assessment and threat analysis. In this work, we present a new method for constructing a vulnerability knowledge graph from information in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Anders Mølmen Høst , Pierre Lison , Leon Moonen

In this paper, we first propose a graph neural network encoding method for multiobjective evolutionary algorithm to handle the community detection problem in complex attribute networks. In the graph neural network encoding method, each edge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Jianyong Sun , Wei Zheng , Qingfu Zhang , Zongben Xu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become an effective tool for malware detection by capturing program execution through graph-structured representations. However, important challenges remain regarding scalability, interpretability, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hossein Shokouhinejad , Griffin Higgins , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Ali A. Ghorbani

Code search aims to retrieve accurate code snippets based on a natural language query to improve software productivity and quality. With the massive amount of available programs such as (on GitHub or Stack Overflow), identifying and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Shangqing Liu , Xiaofei Xie , Jingkai Siow , Lei Ma , Guozhu Meng , Yang Liu

Graph learning plays a central role in many data mining and machine learning tasks, such as manifold learning, data representation and analysis, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and visualization. In this work, we propose a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yongyu Wang

Graph data, such as chemical networks and social networks, may be deemed confidential/private because the data owner often spends lots of resources collecting the data or the data contains sensitive information, e.g., social relationships.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Xinlei He , Jinyuan Jia , Michael Backes , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

Vulnerability identification is crucial for cyber security in the software-related industry. Early identification methods require significant manual efforts in crafting features or annotating vulnerable code. Although the recent pre-trained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Xuxiang Jiang , Yinhao Xiao , Jun Wang , Wei Zhang

Transformer architectures have been successfully used in learning source code representations. The fusion between a graph representation like Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) and a source code sequence makes the use of current approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Junyan Cheng , Iordanis Fostiropoulos , Barry Boehm

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been utilized to create multi-layer graph models for a number of cybersecurity applications from fraud detection to software vulnerability analysis. Unfortunately, like traditional neural networks, GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Haoyu He , Yuede Ji , H. Howie Huang

Despite their ability to aid developers in detecting potential defects early in the software development life cycle, static analysis tools often suffer from precision issues (i.e., high false positive rates of reported alarms). To improve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yuwei Zhang , Ying Xing , Ge Li , Zhi Jin

Predictive coding is a message-passing framework initially developed to model information processing in the brain, and now also topic of research in machine learning due to some interesting properties. One of such properties is the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Billy Byiringiro , Tommaso Salvatori , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Graph embedding aims to transfer a graph into vectors to facilitate subsequent graph analytics tasks like link prediction and graph clustering. Most approaches on graph embedding focus on preserving the graph structure or minimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Shirui Pan , Ruiqi Hu , Sai-fu Fung , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Program semantics learning is the core and fundamental for various code intelligent tasks e.g., vulnerability detection, clone detection. A considerable amount of existing works propose diverse approaches to learn the program semantics for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jing Kai Siow , Shangqing Liu , Xiaofei Xie , Guozhu Meng , Yang Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have pushed the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for performance in learning and predicting on large-scale data present in social networks, biology, etc. Since integrated circuits (ICs) can naturally be represented as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lilas Alrahis , Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Automated detection of vulnerabilities in source code is an essential cybersecurity challenge, underpinning trust in digital systems and services. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising approach as they can learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 David Egea , Barproda Halder , Sanghamitra Dutta

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results in tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing a significant threat to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zhiwei Zhang , Minhua Lin , Junjie Xu , Zongyu Wu , Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang

Graphs are commonly used to model complex networks prevalent in modern social media and literacy applications. Our research investigates the vulnerability of these graphs through the application of feature based adversarial attacks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ying Xu , Michael Lanier , Anindya Sarkar , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

We show that viewing graphs as sets of node features and incorporating structural and positional information into a transformer architecture is able to outperform representations learned with classical graph neural networks (GNNs). Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Grégoire Mialon , Dexiong Chen , Margot Selosse , Julien Mairal