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Sparse Tensor Compilers (STCs) have emerged as critical infrastructure for optimizing high-dimensional data analytics and machine learning workloads. The STCs must synthesize complex, irregular control flow for various compressed storage…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Kabilan Mahathevan , Yining Zhang , Muhammad Ali Gulzar , Kirshanthan Sundararajah

Gray-box fuzzing is widely used for testing embedded systems (ESes). State-of-the-art (SOTA) gray-box fuzzers test ES firmware in fully emulated environments without real peripherals. They emulate missing peripherals to achieve decent code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wei-Lun Huang , Kang G. Shin

Mutation-based fuzzing is popular and effective in discovering unseen code and exposing bugs. However, only a few studies have concentrated on quantifying the importance of input bytes, which refers to the degree to which a byte contributes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kunpeng Zhang , Xiaogang Zhu , Xi Xiao , Minhui Xue , Chao Zhang , Sheng Wen

Fuzzing is a technique widely used in vulnerability detection. The process usually involves writing effective fuzz driver programs, which, when done manually, can be extremely labor intensive. Previous attempts at automation leave much to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mingrui Zhang , Jianzhong Liu , Fuchen Ma , Huafeng Zhang , Yu Jiang

Deep Learning (DL) library bugs affect downstream DL applications, emphasizing the need for reliable systems. Generating valid input programs for fuzzing DL libraries is challenging due to the need for satisfying both language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Chenyuan Yang , Shizhuo Dylan Zhang , Shujing Yang , Lingming Zhang

Fuzzing is an automated software testing technique broadly adopted by the industry. A popular variant is mutation-based fuzzing, which discovers a large number of bugs in practice. While the research community has studied mutation-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Patrick Jauernig , Domagoj Jakobovic , Stjepan Picek , Emmanuel Stapf , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

A zipper is a powerful technique of representing a purely functional data structure in a way that allows fast access to a specific element. It is often used in cases where the imperative data structures would use a mutable pointer. However,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Vít Šefl

Nowadays, quantum program is widely used and quickly developed. However, the absence of testing methodology restricts their quality. Different input format and operator from traditional program make this issue hard to resolve. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Jiyuan Wang , Ming Gao , Yu Jiang , Jianguang Lou , Yue Gao , Dongmei Zhang , Jiaguang Sun

gVisor is a Google-published application-level kernel for containers. As gVisor is lightweight and has sound isolation, it has been widely used in many IT enterprises \cite{Stripe, DigitalOcean, Cloundflare}. When a new vulnerability of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Yuwei Li , Yuan Chen , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Guanglu Yan , Alex X. Liu , Chunming Wu , Zulie Pan , Peng Lin

Direct kernel fuzzing is a targeted approach that focuses on specific areas of the kernel, effectively addressing the challenges of frequent updates and the inherent complexity of operating systems, which are critical infrastructure. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Xie Li , Zhaoyue Yuan , Zhenduo Zhang , Youcheng Sun , Lijun Zhang

There are many declarative frameworks that allow us to implement code formatters relatively easily for any specific language, but constructing them is cumbersome. The first problem is that "everybody" wants to format their code differently,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Terence Parr , Jurgin Vinju

Starting with a random initial seed, fuzzers search for inputs that trigger bugs or vulnerabilities. However, fuzzers often fail to generate inputs for program paths guarded by restrictive branch conditions. In this paper, we show that by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Seemanta Saha , Laboni Sarker , Md Shafiuzzaman , Chaofan Shou , Albert Li , Ganesh Sankaran , Tevfik Bultan

Computer programs are not executed in isolation, but rather interact with the execution environment which drives the program behaviors. Software validation methods thus need to capture the effect of possibly complex environmental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury

Grey-box fuzz testing has revealed thousands of vulnerabilities in real-world software owing to its lightweight instrumentation, fast coverage feedback, and dynamic adjusting strategies. However, directly applying grey-box fuzzing to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Hongxu Chen , Shengjian Guo , Yinxing Xue , Yulei Sui , Cen Zhang , Yuekang Li , Haijun Wang , Yang Liu

Neural network quantization is widely used to reduce model inference complexity in real-world deployments. However, traditional integer quantization suffers from accuracy degradation when adapting to various dynamic ranges. Recent research…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Zhuoyi Zhang , Yunchen Zhang , Gonglei Shi , Yu Shen , Ruihao Gong , Xiaoxu Xia , Qi Zhang , Lewei Lu , Xianglong Liu

In recent years, REST API fuzzing has emerged to explore errors on a cloud service. Its performance highly depends on the sequence construction and request generation. However, existing REST API fuzzers have trouble generating long…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Chenyang Lyu , Jiacheng Xu , Shouling Ji , Xuhong Zhang , Qinying Wang , Binbin Zhao , Gaoning Pan , Wei Cao , Raheem Beyah

Fuzzy optimization deals with the problem of determining 'optimal'solutions of an optimization problem when some of the elements that appear in the problem are not precise. In real situations it is usual to have information, in systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-08-27 Victor Blanco , Justo Puerto

Fuzzing is highly effective in detecting bugs due to the key contribution of randomness. However, randomness significantly reduces the efficiency of fuzzing, causing it to cost days or weeks to expose bugs. Even though directed fuzzing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiaotao Feng , Xiaogang Zhu , Kun Hu , Jincheng Wang , Yingjie Cao , Guang Gong , Jianfeng Pan

With the rapid growth of IoT, secure and efficient mesh networking has become essential. Thread has emerged as a key protocol, widely used in smart-home and commercial systems, and serving as a core transport layer in the Matter standard.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ilja Siroš , Jakob Heirwegh , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

We examine (directed) greybox fuzzing from a geometrical perspective, viewing dissimilarities on inputs and on control flow graphs (with dynamical statistics) as primitive objects of interest. We prototype and evaluate GoExploreFuzz, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Steve Huntsman