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A code clone is a pair of code fragments, within or between software systems that are similar. Since code clones often negatively impact the maintainability of a software system, several code clone detection techniques and tools have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Golam Mostaeen , Banani Roy , Chanchal Roy , Kevin Schneider , Jeffrey Svajlenko

Binary code similarity detection (BCSD) has various applications, including but not limited to vulnerability detection, plagiarism detection, and malware detection. Previous research efforts mainly focus on transforming binary code to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Chensen Huang , Guibo Zhu , Guojing Ge , Taihao Li , Jinqiao Wang

Non-binary codes correcting multiple deletions have recently attracted a lot of attention. In this work, we focus on multiplicity-free codes, a family of non-binary codes where all symbols are distinct. Our main contribution is a new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Michael Schaller , Beatrice Toesca , Van Khu Vu

An executable binary typically contains a large number of machine instructions. Although the statistics of popular instructions is well known, the distribution of non-popular instructions has been relatively under explored. Our finding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Nozima Murodova , Hyungjoon Koo

This article shows that any type of binary data can be defined as a collection from codewords of variable length. This feature helps us to define an Injective and surjective function from the suggested codewords to the required codewords.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Parviz Gharehbagheri , Sayeed Hamid Haji Sayeed Javadi , Parvaneh Asghari , Naser Gharehbagheri

Neural decompilers are machine learning models that reconstruct the source code from an executable program. Critical to the lifecycle of any machine learning model is an evaluation of its effectiveness. However, existing techniques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Luke Dramko , Claire Le Goues , Edward J. Schwartz

This paper proposes a generic formulation that significantly expedites the training and deployment of image classification models, particularly under the scenarios of many image categories and high feature dimensions. As a defining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Fumin Shen , Yadong Mu , Wei Liu , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

We introduce two notions of discrepancy between binary vectors, which are not metric functions in general but nonetheless capture the mathematical structure of the binary asymmetric channel. In turn, these lead to two new fundamental…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Giuseppe Cotardo , Alberto Ravagnani

Investigating the code fragments of code clones detected by code clone detection tools is a time-consuming task, especially when a large number of reference source files are available. This paper proposes (i) a method for clustering a clone…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Daisuke Nishioka , Toshihiro Kamiya

Certain applications require the use of signals that combine both the capability to operate with low signal-to-noise ratios and the ability to support multiple users without interference. In the case where many users have very different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Patricio G. Donato , Matias N. Hadad , Marcos A. Funes

This paper introduces cozy, a tool for analyzing and visualizing differences between two versions of a software binary. The primary use case for cozy is validating "micropatches": small binary or assembly-level patches inserted into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Caleb Helbling , Graham Leach-Krouse , Sam Lasser , Greg Sullivan

Weighted Hamming distance, as a similarity measure between binary codes and binary queries, provides superior accuracy in search tasks than Hamming distance. However, how to efficiently and accurately find $K$ binary codes that have the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Ruixin Liu

Finding the same or similar code snippets in source code is one of fundamental activities in software maintenance. Text-based pattern matching tools such as grep is frequently used for such purpose, but making proper queries for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Katsuro Inoue , Yuya Miyamoto , Daniel M. German , Takashi Ishio

Source code similarity are increasingly used in application development to identify clones, isolate bugs, and find copy-rights violations. Similar code fragments can be very problematic due to the fact that errors in the original code must…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 F Alomari , M Harbi

AI-powered binary code similarity detection (BinSD), which transforms intricate binary code comparison to the distance measure of code embedding through neural networks, has been widely applied to program analysis. However, due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Lirong Fu , Peiyu Liu , Wenlong Meng , Kangjie Lu , Shize Zhou , Xuhong Zhang , Wenzhi Chen , Shouling Ji

Retrieving binary code via natural language queries is a pivotal capability for downstream tasks in the software security domain, such as vulnerability detection and malware analysis. However, it is challenging to identify binary functions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Guoqiang Chen , Lingyun Ying , Ziyang Song , Daguang Liu , Qiang Wang , Zhiqi Wang , Li Hu , Shaoyin Cheng , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Binary Function Similarity Detection (BFSD) is a foundational technique in software security, underpinning a wide range of applications including vulnerability detection, malware analysis. Recent advances in AI-based BFSD tools have led to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jingyi Shi , Yufeng Chen , Yang Xiao , Yuekang Li , Zhengzi Xu , Sihao Qiu , Chi Zhang , Keyu Qi , Yeting Li , Xingchu Chen , Yanyan Zou , Yang Liu , Wei Huo

Similarity metrics, e.g., signatures as used by anti-virus products, are the dominant technique to detect if a given binary is malware. The underlying assumption of this approach is that all instances of a malware (or even malware family)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Mathias Payer , Stephen Crane , Per Larsen , Stefan Brunthaler , Richard Wartell , Michael Franz

Various software features such as classes, methods, requirements, and tests often have similar functionality. This can lead to emergence of duplicates in their descriptive documentation. Uncontrolled duplicates created via copy/paste hinder…

Code review is a common practice in software development and often conducted before code changes are merged into the code repository. A number of approaches for automatically recommending appropriate reviewers have been proposed to match…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ruiyin Li , Peng Liang , Paris Avgeriou