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Deep learning powers critical applications such as autonomous driving, healthcare, and finance, where the correctness of underlying libraries is essential. Bugs in widely used deep learning APIs can propagate to downstream systems, causing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Bin Duan , Ruican Dong , Naipeng Dong , Dan Dongseong Kim , Guowei Yang

Over the past 6 years, Syzbot has fuzzed the Linux kernel day and night to report over 5570 bugs, of which 4604 have been patched [11]. While this is impressive, we have found the average time to find a bug is over 405 days. Moreover, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Joseph Bursey , Ardalan Amiri Sani , Zhiyun Qian

With the wide use of Deep Learning (DL) systems, academy and industry begin to pay attention to their quality. Testing is one of the major methods of quality assurance. However, existing testing techniques focus on the quality of DL models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Weisi Luo , Dong Chai , Xiaoyue Run , Jiang Wang , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen

Fuzz testing has enjoyed great success at discovering security critical bugs in real software. Recently, researchers have devoted significant effort to devising new fuzzing techniques, strategies, and algorithms. Such new ideas are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-22 George Klees , Andrew Ruef , Benji Cooper , Shiyi Wei , Michael Hicks

Fuzzing has become a popular technique for automatically detecting vulnerabilities and bugs by generating unexpected inputs. In recent years, the fuzzing process has been integrated into continuous integration workflows (i.e., continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Tatsuya Shirai , Olivier Nourry , Yutaro Kashiwa , Kenji Fujiwara , Hajimu Iida

With the application of deep learning technology, tools of DL framework testing are in high demand. Existing DL framework testing tools have limited coverage of bug types. For example, they lack the capability of effectively finding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xiaoyu Zhang , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma , Shiwei Wang , Chao Shen

Compilers constitute the foundational root-of-trust in software supply chains; however, their immense complexity inevitably conceals critical defects. Recent research has attempted to leverage historical bugs to design new mutation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xingbang He , Yuanwei Chen , Hao Wu , Jikang Zhang , Zicheng Wang , Ligeng Chen , Junjie Peng , Haiyang Wei , Yi Qian , Tiantai Zhang , Linzhang Wang , Bing Mao

Fuzzing is one of the key techniques for evaluating the robustness of programs against attacks. Fuzzing has to be effective in producing inputs that cover functionality and find vulnerabilities. But it also has to be efficient in producing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rahul Gopinath , Andreas Zeller

In the testing-retraining pipeline for enhancing the robustness property of deep learning (DL) models, many state-of-the-art robustness-oriented fuzzing techniques are metric-oriented. The pipeline generates adversarial examples as test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Haipeng Wang , Zhengyuan Wei , Qilin Zhou , Wing-Kwong Chan

Static and dynamic computational graphs represent two distinct approaches to constructing deep learning frameworks. The former prioritizes compiler-based optimizations, while the latter focuses on programmability and user-friendliness. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Qidong Su , Chuqin Geng , Gennady Pekhimenko , Xujie Si

A fundamental problem in cybersecurity and computer science is determining whether a program is free of bugs and vulnerabilities. Fuzzing, a popular approach to discovering vulnerabilities in programs, has several advantages over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ian Hardgrove , John D. Hastings

Fuzzing REST APIs is an important research problem, with practical applications and impact in industry. As such, a lot of research work has been carried out on this topic in the last few years. However, there are three major issues that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Omur Sahin , Man Zhang , Andrea Arcuri

Ensuring the security and reliability of machine learning frameworks is crucial for building trustworthy AI-based systems. Fuzzing, a popular technique in secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC), can be used to develop secure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ilya Yegorov , Eli Kobrin , Darya Parygina , Alexey Vishnyakov , Andrey Fedotov

Fuzzing is a popular vulnerability automated testing method utilized by professionals and broader community alike. However, despite its abilities, fuzzing is a time-consuming, computationally expensive process. This is problematic for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Michael Wang , Michael Robinson

Correctness and robustness are essential for logic synthesis applications, but they are often only tested with a limited set of benchmarks. Moreover, when the application fails on a large benchmark, the debugging process may be tedious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Siang-Yun Lee , Heinz Riener , Giovanni De Micheli

Modern computing systems heavily rely on hardware as the root of trust. However, their increasing complexity has given rise to security-critical vulnerabilities that cross-layer at-tacks can exploit. Traditional hardware vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mohamadreza Rostami , Marco Chilese , Shaza Zeitouni , Rahul Kande , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Unlike code completion, debugging requires localizing faults and applying targeted edits. We observe that frontier LLMs often regenerate correct but over-edited solutions during debugging. To evaluate how far LLMs are from precise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Wang Bill Zhu , Miaosen Chai , Shangshang Wang , Yejia Liu , Song Bian , Honghua Dong , Willie Neiswanger , Robin Jia

We present a coverage-guided testing algorithm for distributed systems implementations. Our main innovation is the use of an abstract formal model of the system that is used to define coverage. Such abstract models are frequently developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ege Berkay Gulcan , Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan , Rupak Majumdar , Srinidhi Nagendra

In the evolving landscape of integrated circuit (IC) design, the increasing complexity of modern processors and intellectual property (IP) cores has introduced new challenges in ensuring design correctness and security. The recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Venkat Nitin Patnala , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

The rapid escalation of applying Machine Learning (ML) in various domains has led to paying more attention to the quality of ML components. There is then a growth of techniques and tools aiming at improving the quality of ML components and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh , Zhen Ming , Jiang
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