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This paper presents a system combining symbolic execution (KLEE) with a 4-agent multi-LLM architecture for detecting memory vulnerabilities in Rust unsafe code. A central challenge we address is the incomplete-code problem: CVE database…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyad Abdelrazek , Young Lee

To improve the utility of learning applications and render machine learning solutions feasible for complex applications, a substantial amount of heavy computations is needed. Thus, it is essential to delegate the computations among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Homa Esfahanizadeh , Alejandro Cohen , Muriel Medard

Regression testing ensures that a software system when it evolves still performs correctly and that the changes introduce no unintended side-effects. However, the creation of regression test cases that show divergent behavior needs a lot of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Yannic Noller , Hoang Lam Nguyen , Minxing Tang , Timo Kehrer

Dynamic symbolic execution (DSE) is a powerful test generation approach based on an exploration of the path space of the program under test. Well-adapted for path coverage, this approach is however less efficient for conditions, decisions,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Nicolas Berthier , Steven De Oliveira , Nikolai Kosmatov , Delphine Longuet , Romain Soulat

This paper presents Mathematical Execution (ME), a new, unified approach for testing numerical code. The key idea is to (1) capture the desired testing objective via a representing function and (2) transform the automated testing problem to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Zhoulai Fu , Zhendong Su

Memory corruption is a serious class of software vulnerabilities, which requires careful attention to be detected and removed from applications before getting exploited and harming the system users. Symbolic execution is a well-known method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sara Baradaran , Mahdi Heidari , Ali Kamali , Maryam Mouzarani

It has been recently proposed that testing based on symbolic execution can be used in conjunction with static deadlock analysis to define a deadlock detection framework that: (i) can show deadlock presence, in that case a concrete test-case…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Elvira Albert , Miguel Gómez-Zamalloa , Miguel Isabel

Malware analysis techniques are divided into static and dynamic analysis. Both techniques can be bypassed by circumvention techniques such as obfuscation. In a series of works, the authors have promoted the use of symbolic executions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Charles-Henry Bertrand Van Ouytsel , Axel Legay

Symbolic regression plays a crucial role in modern scientific research thanks to its capability of discovering concise and interpretable mathematical expressions from data. A key challenge lies in the search for parsimonious and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Kai Ruan , Yilong Xu , Ze-Feng Gao , Yike Guo , Hao Sun , Ji-Rong Wen , Yang Liu

We present a generalisation of King's symbolic execution technique called compact symbolic execution. It proceeds in two steps. First, we analyse cyclic paths in the control flow graph of a given program, independently from the rest of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-09-18 Jiří Slabý , Jan Strejček , Marek Trtík

Edge-centric distributed computations have appeared as a recent technique to improve the shortcomings of think-like-a-vertex algorithms on large scale-free networks. In order to increase parallelism on this model, edge partitioning -…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Sebastian Schlag , Christian Schulz , Daniel Seemaier , Darren Strash

In so-called constraint-based testing, symbolic execution is a common technique used as a part of the process to generate test data for imperative programs. Databases are ubiquitous in software and testing of programs manipulating databases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Michaël Marcozzi , Wim Vanhoof , Jean-Luc Hainaut

Automated test generation based on symbolic execution can be beneficial for systematically testing safety-critical software, to facilitate test engineers to pursue the strict testing requirements mandated by the certification standards,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Elson Kurian , Daniela Briola , Pietro Braione , Giovanni Denaro

In a regression task, a function is learned from labeled data to predict the labels at new data points. The goal is to achieve small prediction errors. In symbolic regression, the goal is more ambitious, namely, to learn an interpretable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Paul Kahlmeyer , Joachim Giesen , Michael Habeck , Henrik Voigt

Balanced partitioning is often a crucial first step in solving large-scale graph optimization problems, e.g., in some cases, a big graph can be chopped into pieces that fit on one machine to be processed independently before stitching the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-10 Kevin Aydin , MohammadHossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni

Symbolic execution is a powerful systematic software analysis technique, but suffers from the high cost of constraint solving, which is the key supporting technology that affects the effectiveness of symbolic execution. Techniques like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Junye Wen , Mujahid Khan , Meiru Che , Yan Yan , Guowei Yang

Symbolic execution is a key technology in software testing, which generates test cases by collecting symbolic path constraints and then solving constraints with SMT solvers. Symbolic execution has been proven helpful in generating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wenhan Wang , Kaibo Liu , An Ran Chen , Ge Li , Zhi Jin , Gang Huang , Lei Ma

In this paper we present an alternative approach to symbolic segmentation; instead of implementing a new method we approach symbolic segmentation as an algorithm selection problem. That is, let there be $n$ available algorithms for symbolic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Martin Lukac , Kamila Abdiyeva , Michitaka Kameyama

Test-time compute scaling has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing mathematical reasoning in large language models (LLMs) by allocating additional computational resources during inference. However, current methods employ uniform…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yang Xiao , Chunpu Xu , Ruifeng Yuan , Jiashuo Wang , Wenjie Li , Pengfei Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional static program analysis methods, such as symbolic execution, offering the ability to reason over code directly without relying on theorem provers or SMT…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yihe Li , Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck