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Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely-used method for nearest neighbour search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. For most existing hashing methods, an image is first encoded as a vector of hand-engineering visual features, followed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-17 Hanjiang Lai , Yan Pan , Ye Liu , Shuicheng Yan

Recent advances in LLM-based decompilers have been shown effective to convert low-level binaries into human-readable source code. However, there still lacks a comprehensive benchmark that provides large-scale binary-source function pairs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hanzhuo Tan , Xiaolong Tian , Hanrui Qi , Jiaming Liu , Zuchen Gao , Siyi Wang , Qi Luo , Jing Li , Yuqun Zhang

A Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) system which identifies similar medical images based on a query image can assist clinicians for more accurate diagnosis. The recent CBIR research trend favors the construction and use of binary codes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Antonio Sze-To , Hamid R. Tizhoosh , Andrew K. C. Wong

Information Retrieval (IR) plays a pivotal role in diverse Software Engineering (SE) tasks, e.g., bug localization and triaging, code retrieval, requirements analysis, etc. The choice of similarity measure is the core component of an IR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Md Masudur Rahman , Saikat Chakraborty , Gail Kaiser , Baishakhi Ray

Binary code analysis and comprehension is critical to applications in reverse engineering and computer security tasks where source code is not available. Unfortunately, unlike source code, binary code lacks semantics and is more difficult…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yifan Zhang , Chen Huang , Yueke Zhang , Huajie Shao , Kevin Leach , Yu Huang

Automatically generating function summaries for binaries is an extremely valuable but challenging task, since it involves translating the execution behavior and semantics of the low-level language (assembly code) into human-readable natural…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Tong Ye , Lingfei Wu , Tengfei Ma , Xuhong Zhang , Yangkai Du , Peiyu Liu , Shouling Ji , Wenhai Wang

Unsupervised near-duplicate detection has many practical applications ranging from social media analysis and web-scale retrieval, to digital image forensics. It entails running a threshold-limited query on a set of descriptors extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Lia Morra , Fabrizio Lamberti

Identifying recurring vulnerabilities is crucial for ensuring software security. Clone-based techniques, while widely used, often generate many false alarms due to the existence of similar but patched (SBP) code, which is similar to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zixuan Tan , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Shengyi Pan , Kui Liu , Xin Xia

Detecting semantically similar functions -- a crucial analysis capability with broad real-world security usages including vulnerability detection, malware lineage, and forensics -- requires understanding function behaviors and intentions.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Kexin Pei , Zhou Xuan , Junfeng Yang , Suman Jana , Baishakhi Ray

This paper presents a kernel formulation of the recently introduced diff-hash algorithm for the construction of similarity-sensitive hash functions. Our kernel diff-hash algorithm that shows superior performance on the problem of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-11-03 Michael M Bronstein

When given two similar images, humans identify their differences by comparing the appearance (e.g., color, texture) with the help of semantics (e.g., objects, relations). However, mainstream binary change detection models adopt a supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yuhang Gan , Wenjie Xuan , Zhiming Luo , Lei Fang , Zengmao Wang , Juhua Liu , Bo Du

Third-party libraries (TPL) are becoming increasingly popular to achieve efficient and concise software development. However, unregulated use of TPL will introduce legal and security issues in software development. Consequently, some…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yayi Zou , Yixiang Zhang , Guanghao Zhao , Yueming Wu , Shuhao Shen , Cai Fu

Diverse decoding of large language models is crucial for applications requiring multiple semantically distinct responses, yet existing methods primarily achieve lexical rather than semantic diversity. This limitation significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Weijie Shi , Yue Cui , Yaguang Wu , Jingzhi Fang , Shibo Zhang , Mengze Li , Sirui Han , Jia Zhu , Jiajie Xu , Xiaofang Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved notable success in tasks such as social and transportation networks. However, recent studies have highlighted the vulnerability of GNNs to backdoor attacks, raising significant concerns about their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chang Liu , Hai Huang , Yujie Xing , Xingquan Zuo

In recent years, binary analysis gained traction as a fundamental approach to inspect software and guarantee its security. Due to the exponential increase of devices running software, much research is now moving towards new autonomous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Gianluca Capozzi , Daniele Cono D'Elia , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Leonardo Querzoni

Fabricating experimental pictures in research work is a serious academic misconduct, which should better be detected in the reviewing process. However, due to large number of submissions, the detection whether a picture is fabricated or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Binrui Shen , Qiang Niu , Shengxin Zhu

Recently, learning with soft labels has been shown to achieve better performance than learning with hard labels in terms of model generalization, calibration, and robustness. However, collecting pointwise labeling confidence for all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Wei Wang , Lei Feng , Yuchen Jiang , Gang Niu , Min-Ling Zhang , Masashi Sugiyama

This paper describes a method for the recovering of software architectures from a set of similar (but unrelated) software products in binary form. One intention is to drive refactoring into software product lines and combine architecture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Ian D. Peake , Jan Olaf Blech , Lasith Fernando , Divyasheel Sharma , Srini Ramaswamy , Mallikarjun Kande

Link prediction is a fundamental problem of data science, which usually calls for unfolding the mechanisms that govern the micro-dynamics of networks. In this regard, using features obtained from network embedding for predicting links has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chuanting Zhang , Ke-ke Shang , Jingping Qiao

We present a powerful new loss function and training scheme for learning binary hash codes with any differentiable model and similarity function. Our loss function improves over prior methods by using log likelihood loss on top of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Martin Loncaric , Bowei Liu , Ryan Weber