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Given a collection of objects and an associated similarity measure, the all-pairs similarity search problem asks us to find all pairs of objects with similarity greater than a certain user-specified threshold. Locality-sensitive hashing…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-29 Venu Satuluri , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

When approximating binary similarity using the hamming distance between short binary hashes, we show that even if the similarity is symmetric, we can have shorter and more accurate hashes by using two distinct code maps. I.e. by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-02 Behnam Neyshabur , Payman Yadollahpour , Yury Makarychev , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Nathan Srebro

Hashing that projects data into binary codes has shown extraordinary talents in cross-modal retrieval due to its low storage usage and high query speed. Despite their empirical success on some scenarios, existing cross-modal hashing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yufeng Shi , Xinge You , Jiamiao Xu , Feng Zheng , Qinmu Peng , Weihua Ou

This paper establishes the theoretical framework of b-bit minwise hashing. The original minwise hashing method has become a standard technique for estimating set similarity (e.g., resemblance) with applications in information retrieval,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-20 Ping Li , Arnd Christian Konig

Scalar field comparison is a fundamental task in scientific visualization. In topological data analysis, we compare topological descriptors of scalar fields -- such as persistence diagrams and merge trees -- because they provide succinct…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Weiran Lyu , Raghavendra Sridharamurthy , Jeff M. Phillips , Bei Wang

The practice of code reuse is crucial in software development for a faster and more efficient development lifecycle. In reality, however, code reuse practices lack proper control, resulting in issues such as vulnerability propagation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Zhiwei Fu , Steven H. H. Ding , Furkan Alaca , Benjamin C. M. Fung , Philippe Charland

Finding similar data in high-dimensional spaces is one of the important tasks in multimedia applications. Approaches introduced to find exact searching techniques often use tree-based index structures which are known to suffer from the…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Omid Jafari , Parth Nagarkar

In this paper we consider the binary similarity problem that consists in determining if two binary functions are similar only considering their compiled form. This problem is know to be crucial in several application scenarios, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Roberto Baldoni , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Luca Massarelli , Fabio Petroni , Leonardo Querzoni

Third-party libraries (TPLs) are reused frequently in software applications for reducing development cost. However, they could introduce security risks as well. Many TPL detection methods have been proposed to detect TPL reuse in Android…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Wei Tang , Yanlin Wang , Hongyu Zhang , Shi Han , Ping Luo , Dongmei Zhang

A binary's behavior is greatly influenced by how the compiler builds its source code. Although most compiler configuration details are abstracted away during compilation, recovering them is useful for reverse engineering and program…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jason Kim , Daniel Genkin , Kevin Leach

Knowledge of the input format of binary executables is important for finding bugs and vulnerabilities, such as generating data for fuzzing or manual reverse engineering. This paper presents an algorithm to recover the structure and semantic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Seshagiri Prabhu Narasimha , Arun Lakhotia

Tackling binary program analysis problems has traditionally implied manually defining rules and heuristics, a tedious and time-consuming task for human analysts. In order to improve automation and scalability, we propose an alternative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shushan Arakelyan , Sima Arasteh , Christophe Hauser , Erik Kline , Aram Galstyan

Learning based hashing plays a pivotal role in large-scale visual search. However, most existing hashing algorithms tend to learn shallow models that do not seek representative binary codes. In this paper, we propose a novel hashing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Zhaoqiang Xia , Xiaoyi Feng , Jinye Peng , Abdenour Hadid

AI-powered binary code similarity detection (BinSD), which transforms intricate binary code comparison to the distance measure of code embedding through neural networks, has been widely applied to program analysis. However, due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Lirong Fu , Peiyu Liu , Wenlong Meng , Kangjie Lu , Shize Zhou , Xuhong Zhang , Wenzhi Chen , Shouling Ji

Due to its low storage cost and fast query speed, hashing has been recognized to accomplish similarity search in large-scale multimedia retrieval applications. Particularly supervised hashing has recently received considerable research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Zheng Zhang , Guo-sen Xie , Yang Li , Sheng Li , Zi Huang

Hashing aims at generating highly compact similarity preserving code words which are well suited for large-scale image retrieval tasks. Most existing hashing methods first encode the images as a vector of hand-crafted features followed by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Sailesh Conjeti , Abhijit Guha Roy , Amin Katouzian , Nassir Navab

Unsupervised hashing methods typically aim to preserve the similarity between data points in a feature space by mapping them to binary hash codes. However, these methods often overlook the fact that the similarity between data points in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Kam Woh Ng , Xiatian Zhu , Jiun Tian Hoe , Chee Seng Chan , Tianyu Zhang , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang

With the adoption of multiple digital devices in everyday life, the cyber-attack surface has increased. Adversaries are continuously exploring new avenues to exploit them and deploy malware. On the other hand, detection approaches typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Aink Acrie Soe Thein , Nikolaos Pitropakis , Pavlos Papadopoulos , Sam Grierson , Sana Ullah Jan

The problem of cross-platform binary code similarity detection aims at detecting whether two binary functions coming from different platforms are similar or not. It has many security applications, including plagiarism detection, malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Xiaojun Xu , Chang Liu , Qian Feng , Heng Yin , Le Song , Dawn Song

Existing binary corpora typically capture only one or two axes of binary variation: they either provide cross-compiler builds without a temporal axis, or CVE labels for single-build binaries. None combine cross-build diversity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chang Liu , Noah Fleischmann , Nicolò Altamura , Edward Raff , James Holt , Kristopher Micinski