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The computational burden of probabilistic inference remains a hurdle for applying probabilistic programming languages to practical problems of interest. In this work, we provide a semantic and algorithmic foundation for efficient exact…

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Embedded devices are omnipresent in modern networks including the ones operating inside critical environments. However, due to their constrained nature, novel mechanisms are required to provide external, and non-intrusive anomaly detection.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Kurt A. Vedros , Georgios Michail Makrakis , Constantinos Kolias , Robert C. Ivans , Craig Rieger

Symbolic execution is a powerful technique for bug finding and program testing. It is successful in finding bugs in real-world code. The core reasoning techniques use constraint solving, path exploration, and search, which are also the same…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Sahil Verma , Roland H. C. Yap

Software testing is essential to ensure system quality, but it remains time-consuming and error-prone when performed manually. Although recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled automated test generation, most existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Elvis Júnior , Alan Valejo , Jorge Valverde-Rebaza , Vânia de Oliveira Neves

We propose a symbolic execution method for programs that can draw random samples. In contrast to existing work, our method can verify randomized programs with unknown inputs and can prove probabilistic properties that universally quantify…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zachary Susag , Sumit Lahiri , Justin Hsu , Subhajit Roy

Symbolic execution now becomes an indispensable technique for software testing and program analysis. There are several symbolic execution tools available off-the-shelf, and we need a practical benchmark approach to learn their capabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Hui Xu , Zirui Zhao , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

Many evolutionary algorithms (EAs) take advantage of parallel evaluation of candidates. However, if evaluation times vary significantly, many worker nodes (i.e.,\ compute clients) are idle much of the time, waiting for the next generation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Jason Liang , Hormoz Shahrzad , Risto Miikkulainen

WebAssembly seeks to provide an alternative to running large and untrusted binaries within web browsers by implementing a portable, performant, and secure bytecode format for native web computation. However, WebAssembly is largely unstudied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Aron Szanto , Timothy Tamm , Artidoro Pagnoni

Dynamic symbolic execution (DSE) is a powerful method for path exploration during hybrid fuzzing and automatic bug detection. We propose security predicates to effectively detect undefined behavior and memory access violation errors.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Alexey Vishnyakov , Vlada Logunova , Eli Kobrin , Daniil Kuts , Darya Parygina , Andrey Fedotov

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) has become vital to modern AI infrastructure, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. Numerous in-browser ANNS engines have emerged to seamlessly integrate with popular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Mugeng Liu , Siqi Zhong , Qi Yang , Yudong Han , Xuanzhe Liu , Yun Ma

Many engineering problems require identifying feasible domains under implicit constraints. One example is finding acceptable car body styling designs based on constraints like aesthetics and functionality. Current active-learning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Wei Chen , Mark Fuge

In this work, we propose an automated method to identify semantic bugs in student programs, called ATAS, which builds upon the recent advances in both symbolic execution and active learning. Symbolic execution is a program analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ishan Rastogi , Aditya Kanade , Shirish Shevade

WebAssembly binaries are often compiled from memory-unsafe languages, such as C and C++. Because of WebAssembly's linear memory and missing protection features, e.g., stack canaries, source-level memory vulnerabilities are exploitable in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Daniel Lehmann , Martin Toldam Torp , Michael Pradel

Entity alignment (EA) aims to merge two knowledge graphs (KGs) by identifying equivalent entity pairs. Existing methods can be categorized into symbolic and neural models. Symbolic models, while precise, struggle with substructure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shengyuan Chen , Zheng Yuan , Qinggang Zhang , Wen Hua , Jiannong Cao , Xiao Huang

Implementations of network protocols are often prone to vulnerabilities caused by developers' mistakes when accessing memory regions and dealing with arithmetic operations. Finding practical approaches for checking the security of network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Kaled Alshmrany , Lucas Cordeiro

In this paper, we present NEMO, a system that translates Natural-language descriptions of decision problems into formal Executable Mathematical Optimization implementations, operating collaboratively with users or autonomously. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yang Song , Anoushka Vyas , Zirui Wei , Sina Khoshfetrat Pakazad , Henrik Ohlsson , Graham Neubig

Patching severe security flaws in complex software remains a major challenge. While automated tools like fuzzers efficiently discover bugs, fixing deep-rooted low-level faults (e.g., use-after-free and memory corruption) still requires…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Maolin Sun , Yibiao Yang , Xuanlin Liu , Yuming Zhou , Baowen Xu

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed for secure and efficient execution within sandboxed environments -- predominantly web apps and browsers -- to facilitate performance, security, and flexibility of web programming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Muhammad Waseem , Teerath Das , Aakash Ahmad , Peng Liang , Tommi Mikkonen

WebAssembly is revolutionizing the approach to developing modern applications. Although this technology was born to create portable and performant modules in web browsers, currently, its capabilities are extensively exploited in multiple…

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Recent advanced studies have spent considerable human efforts on optimizing network architectures for stereo matching but hardly achieved both high accuracy and fast inference speed. To ease the workload in network design, neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Qiang Wang , Shaohuai Shi , Kaiyong Zhao , Xiaowen Chu