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Deep learning models are known to solve classification and regression problems by employing a number of epoch and training samples on a large dataset with optimal accuracy. However, that doesn't mean they are attack-proof or unexposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Chris Einar San Agustin

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) often rely on statistical correlations rather than causal reasoning, limiting their robustness and interpretability. While testing methods can identify failures, effective debugging and repair remain challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Fatemeh Vares , Brittany Johnson

Transfer learning allows us to train deep architectures requiring a large number of learned parameters, even if the amount of available data is limited, by leveraging existing models previously trained for another task. Here we explore the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Natalie Best , Jordan Ott , Erik Linstead

Transfer learning is commonly utilized in various fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, and medical imaging due to its impressive capability to address subtasks and work with different datasets. However, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Huynh T. T. Tran , Jacob Sander , Achraf Cohen , Brian Jalaian , Nathaniel D. Bastian

Software vulnerabilities can pose severe harms to a computing system. They can lead to system crash, privacy leakage, or even physical damage. Correctly identifying vulnerabilities among enormous software codes in a timely manner is so far…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jin Wang , Hui Xiao , Shuwen Zhong , Yinhao Xiao

Computer-based systems have solved several domain problems, including industrial, military, education, and wearable. Nevertheless, such arrangements need high-quality software to guarantee security and safety as both are mandatory for…

Deep learning models have made significant progress in automatic program repair. However, the black-box nature of these methods has restricted their practical applications. To address this challenge, this paper presents an interpretable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jianzong Wang , Shijing Si , Zhitao Zhu , Xiaoyang Qu , Zhenhou Hong , Jing Xiao

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically fix bugs in the source code. Recently, as advances in Deep Learning (DL) field, there is a rise of Neural Program Repair (NPR) studies, which formulate APR as a translation task from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Wenkang Zhong , Chuanyi Li , Jidong Ge , Bin Luo

Accurate Defect detection is crucial for ensuring the trustworthiness of intelligent railway systems. Current approaches rely on single deep-learning models, like CNNs, which employ a large amount of data to capture underlying patterns.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Rahatara Ferdousi , Fedwa Laamarti , Chunsheng Yang , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

We present NNrepair, a constraint-based technique for repairing neural network classifiers. The technique aims to fix the logic of the network at an intermediate layer or at the last layer. NNrepair first uses fault localization to find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Muhammad Usman , Divya Gopinath , Youcheng Sun , Yannic Noller , Corina Pasareanu

One of the most significant challenges in the field of software code auditing is the presence of vulnerabilities in software source code. Every year, more and more software flaws are discovered, either internally in proprietary code or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Juan Rodriguez Cardenas , Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed , Alfredo Cuzzocrea

Binary security has increasingly relied on deep learning to reason about malware behavior and program semantics. However, the performance often degrades as threat landscapes evolve and code representations shift. While continual learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yiling He , Junchi Lei , Hongyu She , Shuo Shao , Xinran Zheng , Yiping Liu , Zhan Qin , Lorenzo Cavallaro

This paper explores how the current paradigm of vulnerability management might adapt to include machine learning systems through a thought experiment: what if flaws in machine learning (ML) were assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Jonathan M. Spring , April Galyardt , Allen D. Householder , Nathan VanHoudnos

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

In recent years, machine learning has demonstrated impressive results in various fields, including software vulnerability detection. Nonetheless, using machine learning to identify software vulnerabilities presents new challenges,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Sima Arasteh , Christophe Hauser

Safety is a critical concern for the next generation of autonomy that is likely to rely heavily on deep neural networks for perception and control. Formally verifying the safety and robustness of well-trained DNNs and learning-enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xiaodong Yang , Tom Yamaguchi , Hoang-Dung Tran , Bardh Hoxha , Taylor T Johnson , Danil Prokhorov

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mitchell Petingola

Transfer learning with models pretrained on ImageNet has become a standard practice in computer vision. Transfer learning refers to fine-tuning pretrained weights of a neural network on a downstream task, typically unrelated to ImageNet.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xander Coetzer , Arné Schreuder , Anna Sergeevna Bosman

Recently, we can notice a transition to data-driven techniques in Automated Program Repair (APR), in particular towards deep neural networks. This entails training on hundreds of thousands or even millions of non-executable code fragments.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Julian Aron Prenner , Romain Robbes

There is an increasing number of pre-trained deep neural network models. However, it is still unclear how to effectively use these models for a new task. Transfer learning, which aims to transfer knowledge from source tasks to a target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Yunhui Guo , Yandong Li , Liqiang Wang , Tajana Rosing