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Network administration is an inherently complex task, in particular with regard to security. Using the Isabelle interactive proof assistant, we develop two automated, formally verified tools which help uncovering and preventing bugs in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Cornelius Diekmann

Much recent work on visual recognition aims to scale up learning to massive, noisily-annotated datasets. We address the problem of scaling- up the evaluation of such models to large-scale datasets with noisy labels. Current protocols for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Phuc Nguyen , Deva Ramanan , Charless Fowlkes

False positives (FPs) have been an issue of extreme importance for anti-virus (AV) systems for decades. As more security vendors turn to machine learning, alert deluge has hit critical mass with over 20% of all alerts resulting in FPs and,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Edward Raff , Bobby Filar , James Holt

Many ML-based approaches have been proposed to automatically detect, localize, and repair software vulnerabilities. While ML-based methods are more effective than program analysis-based vulnerability analysis tools, few have been integrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Michael Fu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Trung Le , Yuki Kume , Van Nguyen , Dinh Phung , John Grundy

This article puts forward the use of mutual information values to replicate the expertise of security professionals in selecting features for detecting web attacks. The goal is to enhance the effectiveness of web application firewalls…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Amanda Riverol , Gustavo Betarte , Rodrigo Martínez , Álvaro Pardo

Quality assurance (QA) tools are receiving more and more attention and are widely used by developers. Given the wide range of solutions for QA technology, it is still a question of evaluating QA tools. Most existing research is limited in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Han Liu , Sen Chen , Ruitao Feng , Chengwei Liu , Kaixuan Li , Zhengzi Xu , Liming Nie , Yang Liu , Yixiang Chen

Identifying vulnerabilities in source code is crucial, especially in critical software components. Existing methods such as static analysis, dynamic analysis, formal verification, and recently Large Language Models are widely used to detect…

As antivirus and network intrusion detection systems have increasingly proven insufficient to detect advanced threats, large security operations centers have moved to deploy endpoint-based sensors that provide deeper visibility into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Konstantin Berlin , David Slater , Joshua Saxe

Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) in large enterprises can generate hundreds of thousands of alerts per hour, overwhelming analysts with logs requiring rapidly evolving expertise. Conventional machine-learning detectors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Francesco Blefari , Cristian Cosentino , Francesco Aurelio Pironti , Angelo Furfaro , Fabrizio Marozzo

Testing is the most widely employed method to find vulnerabilities in real-world software programs. Compositional analysis, based on symbolic execution, is an automated testing method to find vulnerabilities in medium- to large-scale…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Saahil Ognawala , Ricardo Nales Amato , Alexander Pretschner , Pooja Kulkarni

WebAssembly (abbreviated WASM) has emerged as a promising language of the Web and also been used for a wide spectrum of software applications such as mobile applications and desktop applications. These applications, named as WASM…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yixuan Zhang , Shangtong Cao , Haoyu Wang , Zhenpeng Chen , Xiapu Luo , Dongliang Mu , Yun Ma , Gang Huang , Xuanzhe Liu

Multi-agent systems achieve state-of-the-art outcomes through peer collaboration. However, when an agent in the pipeline silently drops a constraint, the system's final output may look correct even though the reasoning chain was quietly…

On e-commerce platforms, predicting if two products are compatible with each other is an important functionality to achieve trustworthy product recommendation and search experience for consumers. However, accurately predicting product…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Rongzhi Zhang , Rebecca West , Xiquan Cui , Chao Zhang

In the real world, agents often have to operate in situations with incomplete information, limited sensing capabilities, and inherently stochastic environments, making individual observations incomplete and unreliable. Moreover, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Akshat Agarwal , Abhinau Kumar , Kyle Dunovan , Erik Peterson , Timothy Verstynen , Katia Sycara

Over 70% of security vulnerabilities in critical software systems today result from memory safety violations. To address this challenge, fuzzing and static analysis are widely used automated methods to discover such vulnerabilities. Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Keno Hassler , Philipp Görz , Stephan Lipp

Audio Event Detection is an important task for content analysis of multimedia data. Most of the current works on detection of audio events is driven through supervised learning approaches. We propose a weakly supervised learning framework…

Sound · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Anurag Kumar , Bhiksha Raj

Benchmarks are essential for quantitatively tracking progress in AI. As AI agents become increasingly capable, researchers and practitioners have introduced agentic benchmarks to evaluate agents on complex, real-world tasks. These…

Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) holds great promise for the development of autonomous agents under complex GUI tasks, but its scalability remains severely hampered by the verification of task completion. Existing task verification is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Shaofei Cai , Yulei Qin , Haojia Lin , Zihan Xu , Gang Li , Yuchen Shi , Zongyi Li , Yong Mao , Siqi Cai , Xiaoyu Tan , Yitao Liang , Ke Li , Xing Sun

Static analysis tools are widely used for vulnerability detection as they understand programs with complex behavior and millions of lines of code. Despite their popularity, static analysis tools are known to generate an excess of false…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yunhui Zheng , Saurabh Pujar , Burn Lewis , Luca Buratti , Edward Epstein , Bo Yang , Jim Laredo , Alessandro Morari , Zhong Su

It is needed to ensure the integrity of systems that process sensitive information and control many aspects of everyday life. We examine the use of machine learning algorithms to detect malware using the system calls generated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-01 Michael R. Smith , Joe B. Ingram , Christopher C. Lamb , Timothy J. Draelos , Justin E. Doak , James B. Aimone , Conrad D. James