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Deep neural networks (NNs) encounter scalability limitations when confronted with a vast array of neurons, thereby constraining their achievable network depth. To address this challenge, we propose an integration of tensor networks (TN)…

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Fuzzing has emerged as a powerful technique for finding security bugs in complicated real-world applications. American fuzzy lop (AFL), a leading fuzzing tool, has demonstrated its powerful bug finding ability through a vast number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tai D. Nguyen , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

A growing number of applications implement predictive functions using deep learning models, which require heavy use of compute and memory. One popular technique for increasing resource efficiency is 8-bit integer quantization, in which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Animesh Jain , Shoubhik Bhattacharya , Masahiro Masuda , Vin Sharma , Yida Wang

While deep learning (DL) has permeated, and become an integral component of many critical software systems, today software engineering research hasn't explored how to separately test data and models that are integral for DL approaches to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ruchira Manke , Mohammad Wardat , Foutse Khomh , Hridesh Rajan

Modern extensible compiler frameworks-such as MLIR-enable rapid creation of domain-specific language dialects. This flexibility, however, makes correctness harder to ensure as the same extensibility that accelerates development also…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Sairam Vaidya , Marcel Böhme , Loris D'Antoni

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have found numerous applications in various domains, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, facial recognition, and autonomous driving. However, DNN-based systems often suffer from reliability issues due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Sigma Jahan , Mehil B Shah , Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Today, Deep Learning (DL) enhances almost every industrial sector, including safety-critical areas. The next generation of safety standards will define appropriate verification techniques for DL-based applications and propose adequate fault…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Michael Beyer , Andrey Morozov , Emil Valiev , Christoph Schorn , Lydia Gauerhof , Kai Ding , Klaus Janschek

Traditional database fuzzing techniques primarily focus on syntactic correctness and general SQL structures, leaving critical yet obscure DBMS features, such as system-level modes (e.g., GTID), programmatic constructs (e.g., PROCEDURE),…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yongxin Chen , Zhiyuan Jiang , Chao Zhang , Haoran Xu , Shenglin Xu , Jianping Tang , Zheming Li , Peidai Xie , Yongjun Wang

Deep Learning (DL) frameworks are now widely used, simplifying the creation of complex models as well as their integration to various applications even to non DL experts. However, like any other programs, they are prone to bugs. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Florian Tambon , Amin Nikanjam , Le An , Foutse Khomh , Giuliano Antoniol

Fuzzing has become a widely adopted technique for vulnerability discovery, yet it remains ineffective for structured-input programs due to strict syntactic constraints and limited semantic awareness. Traditional greybox fuzzers rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yihao Zou , Tianming Zheng , Futai Zou , Yue Wu

Compiler correctness is a cornerstone of reliable software development. However, systematic testing of compilers is infeasible, given the vast space of possible programs and the complexity of modern programming languages. In this context,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Calin Georgescu , Mitchell Olsthoorn , Pouria Derakhshanfar , Marat Akhin , Annibale Panichella

Mutation testing can be used to assess the fault-detection capabilities of a given test suite. To this aim, two characteristics of mutation testing frameworks are of paramount importance: (i) they should generate mutants that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Michele Tufano , Jason Kimko , Shiya Wang , Cody Watson , Gabriele Bavota , Massimiliano Di Penta , Denys Poshyvanyk

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have emerged as an effective approach to tackling real-world problems. However, like human-written software, DNNs are susceptible to bugs and attacks. This has generated significant interests in developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Hai Duong , Dong Xu , ThanhVu Nguyen , Matthew B. Dwyer

A rising number of botnet families have been successfully detected using deep learning architectures. While the variety of attacks increases, these architectures should become more robust against attacks. They have been proven to be very…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Rahim Taheri

Despite the large number of sophisticated deep neural network (DNN) verification algorithms, DNN verifier developers, users, and researchers still face several challenges. First, verifier developers must contend with the rapidly changing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 David Shriver , Sebastian Elbaum , Matthew B. Dwyer

Failure-inducing inputs play a crucial role in diagnosing and analyzing software bugs. Bug reports typically contain these inputs, which developers extract to facilitate debugging. Since bug reports are written in natural language, prior…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Alif Al Hasan , Subarna Saha , Mia Mohammad Imran , Tarannum Shaila Zaman

Deep neural network (DNN) mutation analysis is a promising approach to evaluating test set adequacy. Due to the large number of generated mutants that must be tested on large datasets, mutation analysis is costly. In this paper, we present…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ali Ghanbari , Sasan Tavakkol

Deep Learning (DL) has recently achieved tremendous success. A variety of DL frameworks and platforms play a key role to catalyze such progress. However, the differences in architecture designs and implementations of existing frameworks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qianyu Guo , Sen Chen , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Qiang Hu , Hongtao Liu , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Xiaohong Li

By decoupling substrate resources, network virtualization (NV) is a promising solution for meeting diverse demands and ensuring differentiated quality of service (QoS). In particular, virtual network embedding (VNE) is a critical enabling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ailing Xiao , Ning Chen , Sheng Wu , Peiying Zhang , Linling Kuang , Chunxiao Jiang

We explore the use of multiple deep learning models for detecting flaws in software programs. Current, standard approaches for flaw detection rely on a single representation of a software program (e.g., source code or a program binary). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Scott Heidbrink , Kathryn N. Rodhouse , Daniel M. Dunlavy