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With the advancement of deep learning (DL) in various fields, there are many attempts to reveal software vulnerabilities by data-driven approach. Nonetheless, such existing works lack the effective representation that can retain the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Vu Le Anh Quan , Chau Thuan Phat , Kiet Van Nguyen , Phan The Duy , Van-Hau Pham

Current machine-learning based software vulnerability detection methods are primarily conducted at the function-level. However, a key limitation of these methods is that they do not indicate the specific lines of code contributing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-28 David Hin , Andrey Kan , Huaming Chen , M. Ali Babar

Software vendors often silently release security patches without providing sufficient advisories (e.g., Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) or delayed updates via resources (e.g., National Vulnerability Database). Therefore, it has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Xin-Cheng Wen , Zirui Lin , Cuiyun Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Yong Wang , Qing Liao

Localizing the source of graph diffusion phenomena, such as misinformation propagation, is an important yet extremely challenging task. Existing source localization models typically are heavily dependent on the hand-crafted rules.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Junxiang Wang , Junji Jiang , Liang Zhao

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

Backdoor attacks pose a significant security risk to graph learning models. Backdoors can be embedded into the target model by inserting backdoor triggers into the training dataset, causing the model to make incorrect predictions when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zihan Guan , Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu

Software projects are dependent on many third-party libraries, therefore high-risk vulnerabilities can propagate through the dependency chain to downstream projects. Owing to the subjective nature of patch management, software vendors…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Mei Han , Lulu Wang , Jianming Chang , Bixin Li , Chunguang Zhang

This paper addresses the challenging problem of retrieval and matching of graph structured objects, and makes two key contributions. First, we demonstrate how Graph Neural Networks (GNN), which have emerged as an effective model for various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yujia Li , Chenjie Gu , Thomas Dullien , Oriol Vinyals , Pushmeet Kohli

Prior studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of Deep Learning (DL) in automated software vulnerability detection. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven effective in learning the graph representations of source code and are commonly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Xin-Cheng Wen , Yupan Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Jie M. Zhang , Qing Liao

Software vulnerability detection (SVD) is a critical challenge in modern systems. Large language models (LLMs) offer natural-language explanations alongside predictions, but most work focuses on binary evaluation, and explanations often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Samal Mukhtar , Yinghua Yao , Zhu Sun , Mustafa Mustafa , Yew Soon Ong , Youcheng Sun

Recent studies have revealed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To defend against such attacks, robust graph structure refinement (GSR) methods aim at minimizing the effect of adversarial edges based on node features, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Kibum Kim , Kijung Shin , Chanyoung Park

Program similarity is a fundamental concept, central to the solution of software engineering tasks such as software plagiarism, clone identification, code refactoring and code search. Accurate similarity estimation between programs requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Aravind Nair , Avijit Roy , Karl Meinke

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the predominant architecture for learning over graphs. As with any machine learning model, an important issue is the detection of attacks, where an adversary can change the output with a small perturbation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chia-Hsuan Lu , Tony Tan , Michael Benedikt

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently shown to be powerful tools for representing and analyzing graph data. So far GNNs is becoming an increasingly critical role in software engineering including program analysis, type inference, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Jintang Li , Kun Xu , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng , Xiao Liu

The source detection problem arises when an epidemic process unfolds over a contact network, and the objective is to identify its point of origin, i.e., the source node. Research on this problem began with the seminal work of Shah and Zaman…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Martin Sterchi , Nathan Brack , Lorenz Hilfiker

Code vulnerability detection (CVD) is essential for addressing and preventing system security issues, playing a crucial role in ensuring software security. Previous learning-based vulnerability detection methods rely on either fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xuefeng Jiang , Lvhua Wu , Sheng Sun , Jia Li , Jingjing Xue , Yuwei Wang , Tingting Wu , Min Liu

Graph is an important data representation ubiquitously existing in the real world. However, analyzing the graph data is computationally difficult due to its non-Euclidean nature. Graph embedding is a powerful tool to solve the graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhikun Zhang , Min Chen , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

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

Vulnerability identification is crucial to protect software systems from attacks for cyber-security. However, huge projects have more than millions of lines of code, and the complex dependencies make it hard to carry out traditional static…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Shuo Liu , Gail Kaiser