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While much of the current research in deep learning-based vulnerability detection relies on disassembled binaries, this paper explores the feasibility of extracting features directly from raw x86-64 machine code. Although assembly language…

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Decomposing complex data into factorized representations can reveal reusable components and enable synthesizing new samples via component recombination. We investigate this in the context of diffusion-based models that learn factorized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Archer Wang , Emile Anand , Yilun Du , Marin Soljačić

Data originating from open-source software projects provide valuable information to enhance software quality. In the scope of Software Defect Prediction, one of the most challenging parts is extracting valid data about failure-prone…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Stefano Dalla Palma , Dario Di Nucci , Damian Tamburri

We study a new family of inverse problems for recovering representations of corrupted data. We assume access to a pre-trained representation learning network R(x) that operates on clean images, like CLIP. The problem is to recover the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Sriram Ravula , Georgios Smyrnis , Matt Jordan , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Machine learning algorithms are typically run on large scale, distributed compute infrastructure that routinely face a number of unavailabilities such as failures and temporary slowdowns. Adding redundant computations using coding-theoretic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jack Kosaian , K. V. Rashmi , Shivaram Venkataraman

The parallel evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) with advanced code-understanding capabilities and the increasing sophistication of malware presents a new frontier for cybersecurity research. This paper evaluates the efficacy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Aniesh Chawla , Udbhav Prasad

Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering (HOBRE) lies at the intersection of binary and source code, aiming to lift binary code to human-readable content relevant to source code, thereby bridging the binary-source semantic gap. Recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zian Su , Xiangzhe Xu , Ziyang Huang , Kaiyuan Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

We introduce a method for using deep neural networks to amortize the cost of inference in models from the family induced by universal probabilistic programming languages, establishing a framework that combines the strengths of probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Tuan Anh Le , Atilim Gunes Baydin , Frank Wood

Dependently typed programming languages allow sophisticated properties of data to be expressed within the type system. Of particular use in dependently typed programming are indexed types that refine data by computationally useful…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Robert Atkey , Patricia Johann , Neil Ghani

Local Binary Descriptors are becoming more and more popular for image matching tasks, especially when going mobile. While they are extensively studied in this context, their ability to carry enough information in order to infer the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Emmanuel d'Angelo , Laurent jacques , Alexandre Alahi , Pierre Vandergheynst

Function-level binary code similarity detection is a crucial aspect of cybersecurity. It enables the detection of bugs and patent infringements in released software and plays a pivotal role in preventing supply chain attacks. A practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sun RuiJin , Guo Shize , Guo Jinhong , Li Wei , Zhan Dazhi , Sun Meng , Pan Zhisong

Software clones are beneficial to detect security gaps and software maintenance in one programming language or across multiple languages. The existing work on source clone detection performs well but in a single programming language.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Mohammad A. Yahya , Dae-Kyoo Kim

Blind image decomposition aims to decompose all components present in an image, typically used to restore a multi-degraded input image. While fully recovering the clean image is appealing, in some scenarios, users might want to retain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Zeyu Zhang , Junlin Han , Chenhui Gou , Hongdong Li , Liang Zheng

We develop a first line of attack for solving programming competition-style problems from input-output examples using deep learning. The approach is to train a neural network to predict properties of the program that generated the outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Matej Balog , Alexander L. Gaunt , Marc Brockschmidt , Sebastian Nowozin , Daniel Tarlow

The binary executable format is the standard method for distributing and executing software. Yet, it is also as opaque a representation of software as can be. If the binary format were augmented with metadata that provides security-relevant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Daniel Engel , Freek Verbeek , Pranav Kumar , Binoy Ravindran

Machine learning model bias can arise from dataset composition: correlated sensitive features can distort the downstream classification model's decision boundary and lead to performance differences along these features. Existing de-biasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Miao Zhang , Zee fryer , Ben Colman , Ali Shahriyari , Gaurav Bharaj

Sample patterns have many uses in Computer Graphics, ranging from procedural object placement over Monte Carlo image synthesis to non-photorealistic depiction. Their properties such as discrepancy, spectra, anisotropy, or progressiveness…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Thomas Leimkühler , Gurprit Singh , Karol Myszkowski , Hans-Peter Seidel , Tobias Ritschel

Copies have been proposed as a viable alternative to endow machine learning models with properties and features that adapt them to changing needs. A fundamental step of the copying process is generating an unlabelled set of points to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Irene Unceta , Diego Palacios , Jordi Nin , Oriol Pujol

Source code summarization of a subroutine is the task of writing a short, natural language description of that subroutine. The description usually serves in documentation aimed at programmers, where even brief phrase (e.g. "compresses data…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Aakash Bansal , Sakib Haque , Collin McMillan

We consider lossy compression of an information source when the decoder has lossless access to a correlated one. This setup, also known as the Wyner-Ziv problem, is a special case of distributed source coding. To this day, real-world…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ezgi Ozyilkan , Johannes Ballé , Elza Erkip