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Estimating worst-case resource consumption is a critical task in software development. The worst-case analysis (WCA) problem is an optimization-based abstraction of this task. Fuzzing and symbolic execution are widely used techniques for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zimu Chen , Di Wang

Fuzz testing is a fundamental technique employed to identify vulnerabilities within software systems. However, the process can be protracted and resource-intensive, especially when confronted with extensive codebases. In this work, I…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Saket Upadhyay

Deep Learning (DL) libraries such as PyTorch provide the core components to build major AI-enabled applications. Finding bugs in these libraries is important and challenging. Prior approaches have tackled this by performing either API-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Feiran Qin , M. M. Abid Naziri , Hengyu Ai , Saikat Dutta , Marcelo d'Amorim

Accurate and real-time traffic state prediction is of great practical importance for urban traffic control and web mapping services. With the support of massive data, deep learning methods have shown their powerful capability in capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Xunlian Luo , Chunjiang Zhu , Detian Zhang , Qing Li

While fuzzing has demonstrated its effectiveness in exposing vulnerabilities within embedded firmware, the discovery of crashing test cases is only the first step in improving the security of these critical systems. The subsequent fault…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Boyu Chang , Binbin Zhao , Qiao Zhang , Peiyu Liu , Yuan Tian , Raheem Beyah , Shouling Ji

Testing Deep Neural Network (DNN) models has become more important than ever with the increasing usage of DNN models in safety-critical domains such as autonomous cars. The traditional approach of testing DNNs is to create a test set, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Samet Demir , Hasan Ferit Eniser , Alper Sen

This work introduces Transformer-based Successive Convexification (T-SCvx), an extension of Transformer-based Powered Descent Guidance (T-PDG), generalizable for efficient six-degree-of-freedom (DoF) fuel-optimal powered descent trajectory…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Julia Briden , Trey Gurga , Breanna Johnson , Abhishek Cauligi , Richard Linares

Side-channel attacks allow an adversary to uncover secret program data by observing the behavior of a program with respect to a resource, such as execution time, consumed memory or response size. Side-channel vulnerabilities are difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Shirin Nilizadeh , Yannic Noller , Corina S. Pasareanu

Computer programs are not executed in isolation, but rather interact with the execution environment which drives the program behaviors. Software validation methods thus need to capture the effect of possibly complex environmental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury

Collaborative path planning for robot swarms in complex, unknown environments without external positioning is a challenging problem. This requires robots to find safe directions based on real-time environmental observations, and to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chenxi Li , Weining Lu , Zhihao Ma , Litong Meng , Bin Liang

Modern hardware systems, driven by demands for high performance and application-specific functionality, have grown increasingly complex, introducing large surfaces for bugs and security-critical vulnerabilities. Fuzzing has emerged as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Lichao Wu , Mohamadreza Rostami , Huimin Li , Nikhilesh Singh , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Traffic Steering (TS) dynamically allocates user traffic across cells to enhance Quality of Experience (QoE), load balance, and spectrum efficiency in 5G networks. However, TS algorithms remain vulnerable to adversarial conditions such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi , Hossein Mohammadi , Bo Tang , Vuk Marojevic

Extended Predictable Feature Analysis (PFAx) [Richthofer and Wiskott, 2017] is an extension of PFA [Richthofer and Wiskott, 2015] that allows generating a goal-directed control signal of an agent whose dynamics has previously been learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Stefan Richthofer , Laurenz Wiskott

Software vulnerability detection can be formulated as a binary classification problem that determines whether a given code snippet contains security defects. Existing multimodal methods typically fuse Natural Code Sequence (NCS)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yun Bian , Yi Chen , HaiQuan Wang , ShiHao Li , Zhe Cui

Software fuzzing has become a cornerstone in automated vulnerability discovery, yet existing mutation strategies often lack semantic awareness, leading to redundant test cases and slow exploration of deep program states. In this work, I…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Shiyin Lin

For high-level Autonomous Vehicles (AV), localization is highly security and safety critical. One direct threat to it is GPS spoofing, but fortunately, AV systems today predominantly use Multi-Sensor Fusion (MSF) algorithms that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Junjie Shen , Jun Yeon Won , Zeyuan Chen , Qi Alfred Chen

The detection of moving infrared dim-small targets has been a challenging and prevalent research topic. The current state-of-the-art methods are mainly based on ConvLSTM to aggregate information from adjacent frames to facilitate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Dengyan Luo , Yanping Xiang , Hu Wang , Luping Ji , Shuai Li , Mao Ye

Optimal control of turbulent mixed-convection flows has attracted considerable attention from researchers. Numerical algorithms such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are powerful tools that allow to perform global optimization. These algorithms…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-25 M. Oulghelou , C. Beghein , C. Allery

Proof-of-Vulnerability (PoV) input generation is a critical task in software security and supports downstream applications such as path generation and validation. Generating a PoV input requires solving two sets of constraints: (1)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Haochen Zeng , Andrew Bao , Jiajun Cheng , Chengyu Song

Correlation filter (CF)-based methods have demonstrated exceptional performance in visual object tracking for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, but suffer from the undesirable boundary effect. To solve this issue, spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Changhong Fu , Xiaoxiao Yang , Fan Li , Juntao Xu , Changjing Liu , Peng Lu