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Encodings or the proof of their absence are the main way to compare process calculi. To analyse the quality of encodings and to rule out trivial or meaningless encodings, they are augmented with quality criteria. There exists a bunch of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-28 Kirstin Peters , Rob van Glabbeek

Understanding the functional (dis)-similarity of source code is significant for code modeling tasks such as software vulnerability and code clone detection. We present DISCO(DIS-similarity of COde), a novel self-supervised model focusing on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yangruibo Ding , Luca Buratti , Saurabh Pujar , Alessandro Morari , Baishakhi Ray , Saikat Chakraborty

Traditional network embedding primarily focuses on learning a continuous vector representation for each node, preserving network structure and/or node content information, such that off-the-shelf machine learning algorithms can be easily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Daokun Zhang , Jie Yin , Xingquan Zhu , Chengqi Zhang

Binary similarity analysis is critical to many code-reuse-related issues and "1-to-1" mechanism is widely applied, where one function in a binary file is matched against one function in a source file or binary file. However, we discover…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ang Jia , Ming Fan , Wuxia Jin , Xi Xu , Zhaohui Zhou , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Ting Liu

Binary code similarity analysis (BCSA) is a crucial research area in many fields such as cybersecurity. Specifically, function-level diffing tools are the most widely used in BCSA: they perform function matching one by one for evaluating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zhijie Liu , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Liang Feng Zhang , Yutian Tang

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

Assessing the degree of similarity of code fragments is crucial for ensuring software quality, but it remains challenging due to the need to capture the deeper semantic aspects of code. Traditional syntactic methods often fail to identify…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Jorge Martinez-Gil

Disassemblers are crucial in the analysis and modification of binaries. Existing works showing disassembler errors largely rely on practical implementation without specific guarantees and assume source code and compiler toolchains to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lambang Akbar Wijayadi , Yuancheng Jiang , Roland H. C. Yap , Zhenkai Liang , Zhuohao Liu

Binary analysis of software is a critical step in cyber forensics applications such as program vulnerability assessment and malware detection. This involves interpreting instructions executed by software and often necessitates converting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Dinuka Sahabandu , Sukarno Mertoguno , Radha Poovendran

We discuss methodological issues related to the evaluation of unsupervised binary code construction methods for nearest neighbor search. These issues have been widely ignored in literature. These coding methods attempt to preserve either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Mohammad Rastegari , Shobeir Fakhraei , Jonghyun Choi , David Jacobs , Larry S. Davis

Source code plagiarism is a long-standing issue in tertiary computer science education. Many source code plagiarism detection tools have been proposed to aid in the detection of source code plagiarism. However, existing detection tools are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Hayden Cheers , Yuqing Lin , Shamus P. Smith

Deep hashing has shown to be a complexity-efficient solution for the Approximate Nearest Neighbor search problem in high dimensional space. Many methods usually build the loss function from pairwise or triplet data points to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuan Chen , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

In this paper, we address the problem of finding a correspondence, or matching, between the functions of two programs in binary form, which is one of the most common task in binary diffing. We introduce a new formulation of this problem as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Elie Mengin , Fabrice Rossi

Memory corruption is a serious class of software vulnerabilities, which requires careful attention to be detected and removed from applications before getting exploited and harming the system users. Symbolic execution is a well-known method…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Sara Baradaran , Mahdi Heidari , Ali Kamali , Maryam Mouzarani

Binary authorship analysis is a significant problem in many software engineering applications. In this paper, we formulate a binary authorship verification task to accurately reflect the real-world working process of software forensic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Qige Song , Yongzheng Zhang , Linshu Ouyang , Yige Chen

Verification of microkernels, device drivers, and crypto routines requires analyses at the binary level. In order to automate these analyses, in the last years several binary analysis platforms have been introduced. These platforms share a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Andreas Lindner , Roberto Guanciale , Roberto Metere

In software reverse engineering, decompilation is the process of recovering source code from binary files. Decompilers are used when it is necessary to understand or analyze software for which the source code is not available. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Javier Escalada , Ted Scully , Francisco Ortin

We introduce a binary embedding framework, called Proximity Preserving Code (PPC), which learns similarity and dissimilarity between data points to create a compact and affinity-preserving binary code. This code can be used to apply fast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Inbal Lav , Shai Avidan , Yoram Singer , Yacov Hel-Or

Online hashing methods are efficient in learning the hash functions from the streaming data. However, when the hash functions change, the binary codes for the database have to be recomputed to guarantee the retrieval accuracy. Recomputing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu

Similarity query is the family of queries based on some similarity metrics. Unlike the traditional database queries which are mostly based on value equality, similarity queries aim to find targets "similar enough to" the given data objects,…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yifan Wang