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Optimizing Pandas programs is a challenging problem. Existing systems and compiler-based approaches offer reliability but are either heavyweight or support only a limited set of optimizations. Conversely, using LLMs in a per-program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Avaljot Singh , Dushyant Bharadwaj , Stefanos Baziotis , Kaushik Varadharajan , Charith Mendis

Recent years have seen an increased interest in large-scale analytical dataflows on non-relational data. These dataflows are compiled into execution graphs scheduled on large compute clusters. In many novel application areas the predominant…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Astrid Rheinländer , Arvid Heise , Fabian Hueske , Ulf Leser , Felix Naumann

Fuzzing -- testing programs with random inputs -- has become the prime technique to detect bugs and vulnerabilities in programs. To generate inputs that cover new functionality, fuzzers require execution feedback from the program -- for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Rahul Gopinath , Bachir Bendrissou , Björn Mathis , Andreas Zeller

Classifiers are among the most widely used supervised machine learning algorithms. Many classification models exist, and choosing the right one for a given task is difficult. During model selection and debugging, data scientists need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Andreas Hinterreiter , Peter Ruch , Holger Stitz , Martin Ennemoser , Jürgen Bernard , Hendrik Strobelt , Marc Streit

Programming errors that degrade the performance of systems are widespread, yet there is little tool support for analyzing these bugs. We present a method based on differential performance analysis---we find inputs for which the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Pavol Cerný , Ashutosh Trivedi

With the increasing importance of distributed scientific workflows, there is a critical need to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) constraints, such as minimizing time or limiting execution to resource subsets. However, the unpredictable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Md Hasanur Rashid , Jesun Firoz , Nathan R. Tallent , Luanzheng Guo , Meng Tang , Dong Dai

Fuzzing is a powerful technique for finding bugs in software libraries, but scaling it remains difficult. Automated harness generation commits to fixed API sequences at synthesis time, limiting the behaviors each harness can test.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Harrison Green , Fraser Brown , Claire Le Goues

Data flow testing creates test requirements as definition-use (DU) associations, where a definition is a program location that assigns a value to a variable and a use is a location where that value is accessed. Data flow testing is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Marcos Lordello Chaim , Kesina Baral , Jeff Offutt

Testing a program's capability to effectively handling errors is a significant challenge, given that program errors are relatively uncommon. To solve this, Software Fault Injection (SFI)-based fuzzing integrates SFI and traditional fuzzing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jin Wei , Ping Chen , Jun Dai , Xiaoyan Sun , Zhihao Zhang , Chang Xu , Yi Wanga

Test automation brings the potential to reduce costs and human effort, but several aspects of software testing remain challenging to automate. One such example is automated performance testing to find performance breaking points. Current…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Mahshid Helali Moghadam , Mehrdad Saadatmand , Markus Borg , Markus Bohlin , Björn Lisper

Flow-matching models provide a powerful framework for various applications, offering efficient sampling and flexible probability path modeling. These models are characterized by flows with low curvature in learned generative trajectories,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zibin Wang , Zhiyuan Ouyang , Xiangyun Zhang

Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) handles large amount of data and manages workload through dataflows. ETL dataflows are widely regarded as complex and expensive operations in terms of time and system resources. In order to minimize the time and…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-09-08 Xiufeng Liu

Fuzz testing (fuzzing) is a well-known method for exposing bugs/vulnerabilities in software systems. Popular fuzzers, such as AFL, use a biased random search over the domain of program inputs, where 100s or 1000s of inputs (test cases) are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuntong Zhang , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Gregory J. Duck , Jiaqi Tan , Abhik Roychoudhury

Debugging is an unavoidable and most crucial aspect of software development life cycle. Especially when it comes the turn of embedded one. Due to the requirements of low code size and less resource consumption, the embedded softwares need…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-09-14 Partha Pratim Ray , Ansuman Banerjee , Banibrata Bag

Data-flow analysis is a critical component of security research. Theoretically, accurate data-flow analysis in binary executables is an undecidable problem, due to complexities of binary code. Practically, many binary analysis engines offer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Nicolaas Weideman , Sima Arasteh , Mukund Raghothaman , Jelena Mirkovic , Christophe Hauser

Previous dominant methods for scene flow estimation focus mainly on input from two consecutive frames, neglecting valuable information in the temporal domain. While recent trends shift towards multi-frame reasoning, they suffer from rapidly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Yushan Zhang , Yixi Cai , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

Fuzz testing is one of the most effective techniques for finding software vulnerabilities. While modern fuzzers can generate inputs and monitor executions automatically, the overall workflow, from analyzing a codebase, to configuring…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Max Bazalii , Marius Fleischer

Due to ongoing accrual over long durations, a defining characteristic of real-world data streams is the requirement for rolling, often real-time, mechanisms to coarsen or summarize stream history. One common data structure for this purpose…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Connor Yang , Joey Wagner , Emily Dolson , Luis Zaman , Matthew Andres Moreno

This paper presents a novel fuzzing framework, called MicroFuzz, specifically designed for Microservices. Mocking-Assisted Seed Execution, Distributed Tracing, Seed Refresh and Pipeline Parallelism approaches are adopted to address the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Peng Di , Bingchang Liu , Yiyi Gao

Greybox fuzzing is a lightweight testing approach that effectively detects bugs and security vulnerabilities. However, greybox fuzzers randomly mutate program inputs to exercise new paths; this makes it challenging to cover code that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis