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Exploits are commonly used to demonstrate the presence of library vulnerabilities and validate their impact across different versions. However, their direct application to alternative versions often fails due to breaking changes introduced…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zirui Chen , Zhipeng Xue , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Xiaohu Yang

Reusing previously completed software repository to enhance the development process is a common phenomenon. If developers get suggestions from the existing projects they might be benefited a lot what they eventually expect while coding. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Ziaur Rahman , Md. Kamrul Hasan

Third-party libraries (TPLs) are extensively utilized by developers to expedite the software development process and incorporate external functionalities. Nevertheless, insecure TPL reuse can lead to significant security risks. Existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Siyuan Li , Yongpan Wang , Chaopeng Dong , Shouguo Yang , Hong Li , Hao Sun , Zhe Lang , Zuxin Chen , Weijie Wang , Hongsong Zhu , Limin Sun

Efficient high-performance libraries often expose multiple tunable parameters to provide highly optimized routines. These can range from simple loop unroll factors or vector sizes all the way to algorithmic changes, given that some…

Performance · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Marco Cianfriglia , Flavio Vella , Cedric Nugteren , Anton Lokhmotov , Grigori Fursin

With the advancement of automated software engineering, research focus is increasingly shifting toward practical tasks reflecting the day-to-day work of software engineers. Among these tasks, software migration, a critical process of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ryo Fujii , Makoto Morishita , Kazuki Yano , Jun Suzuki

Software libraries play a critical role in the functionality, efficiency, and maintainability of software systems. As developers increasingly rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline their coding processes, the effectiveness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jasmine Latendresse , SayedHassan Khatoonabadi , Ahmad Abdellatif , Emad Shihab

Knowledge utilization is a critical aspect of LLMs, and understanding how they adapt to evolving knowledge is essential for their effective deployment. However, existing benchmarks are predominantly static, failing to capture the evolving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Wei Tang , Yixin Cao , Yang Deng , Jiahao Ying , Bo Wang , Yizhe Yang , Yuyue Zhao , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang , Yugang Jiang , Yong Liao

In this paper we introduce, MigrationMiner, an automated tool that detects code migrations performed between Java third-party library. Given a list of open source projects, the tool detects potential library migration code changes and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Hussein Alrubaye , Mohamed Wiem Mkaouer , Ali Ouni

Third-party libraries are crucial to the development of software projects. To get suitable libraries, developers need to search through millions of libraries by filtering, evaluating, and comparing. The vast number of libraries places a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Zhensu Sun , Yan Liu , Ziming Cheng , Chen Yang , Pengyu Che

GPGPU architectures have become significantly more diverse in recent years, which has led to an emergence of a variety of specialized programming models and software stacks to support them. Portable programming models exist, but they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Joshua H. Davis , Daniel Nichols , Ishan Khillan , Abhinav Bhatele

In the current software development environment, third-party libraries play a crucial role. They provide developers with rich functionality and convenient solutions, speeding up the pace and efficiency of software development. However, with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jia Zeng , Dan Han , Yaling Zhu , Yangzhong Wang , Fangchen Weng

Fast numerical libraries have been a cornerstone of scientific computing for decades, but this comes at a price. Programs may be tied to vendor specific software ecosystems resulting in polluted, non-portable code. As we enter an era of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Bruce Collie , Philip Ginsbach , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

Python applications depend on third-party native libraries that may be vendored within package distributions or installed on the host system. When vulnerabilities are discovered in these native libraries, determining which Python packages…

Inspired by natural evolutionary processes, Evolutionary Computation (EC) has established itself as a cornerstone of Artificial Intelligence. Recently, with the surge in data-intensive applications and large-scale complex systems, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Beichen Huang , Ran Cheng , Zhuozhao Li , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

Path planning for 3D solid objects is a challenging problem, requiring a search in a six-dimensional configuration space, which is, nevertheless, essential in many robotic applications such as bin-picking and assembly. The commonly used…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Michal Minařík , Vojtěch Vonásek , Robert Pěnička

The adoption of heterogeneous computing systems based on diverse architectures to achieve exascale computing power has worsened the performance portability problem of scientific applications that were designed to run on these platforms. To…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ami Marowka

Although using third-party libraries is common practice when writing software, vulnerabilities may be found even in well-known libraries. Detected vulnerabilities are often fixed quickly in the library code. The easiest way to include these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Kristiina Rahkema , Dietmar Pfahl

We introduce Repro, an open-source library which aims at improving the reproducibility and usability of research code. The library provides a lightweight Python API for running software released by researchers within Docker containers which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Daniel Deutsch , Dan Roth

Context: Mining software repositories is a popular means to gain insights into a software project's evolution, monitor project health, support decisions and derive best practices. Tools supporting the mining process are commonly applied by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Nicole Hoess , Carlos Paradis , Rick Kazman , Wolfgang Mauerer

Software developers frequently reuse source code from repositories as it saves development time and effort. Code clones accumulated in these repositories hence represent often repeated functionalities and are candidates for reuse in an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Muhammad Hammad , Önder Babur , Hamid Abdul Basit