English
Related papers

Related papers: IvySyn: Automated Vulnerability Discovery in Deep …

200 papers

Deep learning (DL) models have become increasingly popular in identifying software vulnerabilities. Prior studies found that vulnerabilities across different vulnerable programs may exhibit similar vulnerable scopes, implicitly forming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Michael Fu , Trung Le , Van Nguyen , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Dinh Phung

Distributed protocols are notoriously difficult to verify correctly. Proving safety typically requires inductive invariants that both imply the desired property and are preserved by every protocol transition; yet inferring such invariants…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weining Cao , Guangyuan Wu , Yuan Yao , Hengfeng Wei , Taolue Chen , Xiaoxing Ma

This paper presents VulnSense framework, a comprehensive approach to efficiently detect vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts using a multimodal learning approach on graph-based and natural language processing (NLP) models. Our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Phan The Duy , Nghi Hoang Khoa , Nguyen Huu Quyen , Le Cong Trinh , Vu Trung Kien , Trinh Minh Hoang , Van-Hau Pham

The rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) techniques has enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic content, but it also raises significant security concerns. Current detection methods face two major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Changjiang Jiang , Wenhui Dong , Zhonghao Zhang , Fengchang Yu , Wei Peng , Xinbin Yuan , Yifei Bi , Ming Zhao , Zian Zhou , Chenyang Si , Caifeng Shan

Deep learning (DL) libraries are widely used in critical applications, where even subtle silent bugs can lead to serious consequences. While existing DL fuzzing techniques have made progress in detecting crashes, they inherently struggle to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kunpeng Zhang , Dongwei Xiao , Daoyuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Jiali Zhao , Yuanyi Lin , Tongtong Xu , Shaohua Wang

The increasing complexity of modern software systems exacerbates the prevalence of security vulnerabilities, posing risks of severe breaches and substantial economic loss. Consequently, robust code vulnerability detection is essential for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Zhiyuan Wei , Xiaoxuan Yang , Jing Sun , Zijian Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have training corpora containing large amounts of program code, greatly improving the model's code comprehension and generation capabilities. However, sound comprehensive research on detecting program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yu Liu , Lang Gao , Mingxin Yang , Yu Xie , Ping Chen , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen

The impact of software vulnerabilities on everyday software systems is significant. Despite deep learning models being proposed for vulnerability detection, their reliability is questionable. Prior evaluations show high recall/F1 scores of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Partha Chakraborty , Krishna Kanth Arumugam , Mahmoud Alfadel , Meiyappan Nagappan , Shane McIntosh

Machine learning-based software vulnerability detection requires high-quality datasets, which is essential for training effective models. To address challenges related to data label quality, diversity, and comprehensiveness, we constructed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Chaomeng Lu , Tianyu Li , Toon Dehaene , Bert Lagaisse

Software vulnerabilities are a fundamental cause of cyber attacks. Effectively identifying these vulnerabilities is essential for robust cybersecurity, yet it remains a complex and challenging task. In this paper, we present SafePyScript, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Talaya Farasat , Atiqullah Ahmadzai , Aleena Elsa George , Sayed Alisina Qaderi , Dusan Dordevic , Joachim Posegga

Automating software vulnerability detection (SVD) remains a critical challenge in an era of increasingly complex and interdependent software systems. Despite significant advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) for code analysis, prevailing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Arastoo Zibaeirad , Marco Vieira

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are used in a wide variety of applications. However, as in any software application, DNN-based apps are afflicted with bugs. Previous work observed that DNN bug fix patterns are different from traditional bug fix…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Mohammad Wardat , Breno Dantas Cruz , Wei Le , Hridesh Rajan

Recent advances in adversarial Deep Learning (DL) have opened up a largely unexplored surface for malicious attacks jeopardizing the integrity of autonomous DL systems. With the wide-spread usage of DL in critical and time-sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Bita Darvish Rouhani , Mohammad Samragh , Mojan Javaheripi , Tara Javidi , Farinaz Koushanfar

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), distributed training and inference frameworks like DeepSpeed have become essential for scaling model training and inference across multiple GPUs or nodes. However, the increasing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Xiao Yu , Haoxuan Chen , Feifei Niu , Xing Hu , Jacky Wai Keung , Xin Xia

GPU memory errors are a critical threat to deep learning (DL) frameworks, leading to crashes or even security issues. We introduce GPU-Fuzz, a fuzzer locating these issues efficiently by modeling operator parameters as formal constraints.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zihao Li , Hongyi Lu , Yanan Guo , Zhenkai Zhang , Shuai Wang , Fengwei Zhang

Detecting security vulnerabilities in software before they are exploited has been a challenging problem for decades. Traditional code analysis methods have been proposed, but are often ineffective and inefficient. In this work, we model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Noah Ziems , Shaoen Wu

Data-driven research on the automated discovery and repair of security vulnerabilities in source code requires comprehensive datasets of real-life vulnerable code and their fixes. To assist in such research, we propose a method to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Guru Prasad Bhandari , Amara Naseer , Leon Moonen

Humans can robustly localize visual evidence and provide grounded answers even in noisy environments by identifying critical cues and then relating them to the full context in a bottom-up manner. Inspired by this, we propose DeepScan, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yangfu Li , Hongjian Zhan , Jiawei Chen , Yuning Gong , Qi Liu , Yue Lu

Detecting bugs in Deep Learning (DL) libraries (e.g., TensorFlow/PyTorch) is critical for almost all downstream DL systems in ensuring effectiveness/safety for end users. Meanwhile, traditional fuzzing techniques can be hardly effective for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Haoran Peng , Chenyuan Yang , Lingming Zhang

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools often suffer from high false positive rates, leading to alert fatigue that consumes valuable auditing resources. Recent efforts leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) as filters offer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mingcheng Jiang , Jiancheng Huang , Jiangfei Wang , Zhengzhu Xie , Nan Fang , Guang Cheng , Xiaoyan Hu , Hua Wu