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Model diffing, the process of comparing models' internal representations to identify their differences, is a promising approach for uncovering safety-critical behaviors in new models. However, its application has so far been primarily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Thomas Jiralerspong , Trenton Bricken

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

Binary Code Similarity Analysis (BCSA) has a wide spectrum of applications, including plagiarism detection, vulnerability discovery, and malware analysis, thus drawing significant attention from the security community. However, conventional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Fei Zuo , Cody Tompkins , Qiang Zeng , Lannan Luo , Yung Ryn Choe , Junghwan Rhee

How data is represented and operationalized is critical for building computational solutions that are both effective and efficient. A common approach is to represent data objects as binary vectors, denoted \textit{hash codes}, which require…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Casper Hansen

Learning an encoding of feature vectors in terms of an over-complete dictionary or a information geometric (Fisher vectors) construct is wide-spread in statistical signal processing and computer vision. In content based information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 B Sengupta , E Vasquez , Y Qian

Binary code similarity detection (BCSD) is widely used in various binary analysis tasks such as vulnerability search, malware detection, clone detection, and patch analysis. Recent studies have shown that the learning-based binary code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yeming Gu , Hui Shu , Fei Kang , Fan Hu

In this paper, we propose a new dense retrieval model which learns diverse document representations with deep query interactions. Our model encodes each document with a set of generated pseudo-queries to get query-informed, multi-view…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Zehan Li , Nan Yang , Liang Wang , Furu Wei

Sparse document representations have been widely used to retrieve relevant documents via exact lexical matching. Owing to the pre-computed inverted index, it supports fast ad-hoc search but incurs the vocabulary mismatch problem. Although…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Eunseong Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Minjin Choi , Hyeseon Ko , Young-In Song , Jongwuk Lee

Recently, very high-dimensional feature representations, e.g., Fisher Vector, have achieved excellent performance for visual recognition and retrieval. However, these lengthy representations always cause extremely heavy computational and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Li Liu , Mengyang Yu , Ling Shao

In this paper we consider the binary similarity problem that consists in determining if two binary functions are similar only considering their compiled form. This problem is know to be crucial in several application scenarios, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Roberto Baldoni , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Luca Massarelli , Fabio Petroni , Leonardo Querzoni

Similarity-preserving hashing is a widely-used method for nearest neighbour search in large-scale image retrieval tasks. There has been considerable research on generating efficient image representation via the deep-network-based hashing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Hanjiang Lai , Yan Pan

Multi-task learning of dense prediction tasks, by sharing both the encoder and decoder, as opposed to sharing only the encoder, provides an attractive front to increase both accuracy and computational efficiency. When the tasks are similar,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Naresh Kumar Gurulingan , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Binary similarity analysis determines if two binary executables are from the same source program. Existing techniques leverage static and dynamic program features and may utilize advanced Deep Learning techniques. Although they have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Xiangzhe Xu , Zhou Xuan , Shiwei Feng , Siyuan Cheng , Yapeng Ye , Qingkai Shi , Guanhong Tao , Le Yu , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

Binary code similarity detection is an important problem with applications in areas such as malware analysis, vulnerability research and license violation detection. This paper proposes a novel graph neural network architecture combined…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Joshua Collyer , Tim Watson , Iain Phillips

The binary similarity problem consists in determining if two functions are similar by only considering their compiled form. Advanced techniques for binary similarity recently gained momentum as they can be applied in several fields, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Luca Massarelli , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Fabio Petroni , Leonardo Querzoni , Roberto Baldoni

In this work, we propose using a unified representation, termed Factorized Features, for low-level vision tasks, where we test on Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) and \textbf{Image Compression}. Motivated by the shared principles…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Yang-Che Sun , Cheng Yu Yeo , Ernie Chu , Jun-Cheng Chen , Yu-Lun Liu

Cross-modal retrieval has become popular in recent years, particularly with the rise of multimedia. Generally, the information from each modality exhibits distinct representations and semantic information, which makes feature tends to be in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zichen Yuan , Qi Shen , Bingyi Zheng , Yuting Liu , Linying Jiang , Guibing Guo

Representation of data on mixed variables, numerical and categorical types to get suitable feature map is a challenging task as important information lies in a complex non-linear manifold. The feature transformation should be able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Saswata Sahoo , Souradip Chakraborty

Neural architecture search (NAS) aims to automatically design deep neural networks of satisfactory performance. Wherein, architecture performance predictor is critical to efficiently value an intermediate neural architecture. But for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Hanting Chen , Chunjing Xu , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Qi Tian , Chang Xu

Binary Code Similarity Detection (BCSD) plays a crucial role in numerous fields, including vulnerability detection, malware analysis, and code reuse identification. As IoT devices proliferate and rapidly evolve, their highly heterogeneous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Xiuwei Shang , Li Hu , Shaoyin Cheng , Guoqiang Chen , Benlong Wu , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu