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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely used to learn representations on graphs and tackle many real-world problems from a wide range of domains. In this paper we propose wsGAT, an extension of the Graph Attention Network (GAT)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Marco Grassia , Giuseppe Mangioni

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents new opportunities for automated software vulnerability detection, a crucial task in securing modern codebases. This paper presents a comparative study on the effectiveness of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Md Hasan Saju , Maher Muhtadi , Akramul Azim

The growing dependence of software projects on external libraries has generated apprehensions regarding the security of these libraries because of concealed vulnerabilities. Handling these vulnerabilities presents difficulties due to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Hieu Dinh Vo , Thanh Trong Vu , Son Nguyen

Over the years, open-source software systems have become prey to threat actors. Even as open-source communities act quickly to patch the breach, code vulnerability screening should be an integral part of agile software development from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Nafis Tanveer Islam , Gonzalo De La Torre Parra , Dylan Manuel , Elias Bou-Harb , Peyman Najafirad

The domains of transport and logistics are increasingly relying on autonomous mobile robots for the handling and distribution of passengers or resources. At large system scales, finding decentralized path planning and coordination solutions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Qingbiao Li , Weizhe Lin , Zhe Liu , Amanda Prorok

Program or process is an integral part of almost every IT/OT system. Can we trust the identity/ID (e.g., executable name) of the program? To avoid detection, malware may disguise itself using the ID of a legitimate program, and a system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Shen Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Ding Li , Lu-An Tang , Jingchao Ni , Zhichun Li , Junghwan Rhee , Haifeng Chen , Philip S. Yu

The identification of essential genes/proteins is a critical step towards a better understanding of human biology and pathology. Computational approaches helped to mitigate experimental constraints by exploring machine learning (ML) methods…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-02 João Schapke , Anderson Tavares , Mariana Recamonde-Mendoza

Identifying potentially vulnerable locations in a code base is critical as a pre-step for effective vulnerability assessment; i.e., it can greatly help security experts put their time and effort to where it is needed most. Metric-based and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Xiaoning Du , Bihuan Chen , Yuekang Li , Jianmin Guo , Yaqin Zhou , Yang Liu , Yu Jiang

Each year, software vulnerabilities are discovered, which pose significant risks of exploitation and system compromise. We present a convolutional neural network model that can successfully identify bugs in C code. We trained our model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 C. Seas , G. Fitzpatrick , J. A. Hamilton , M. C. Carlisle

Prior studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of Deep Learning (DL) in automated software vulnerability detection. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven effective in learning the graph representations of source code and are commonly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Xin-Cheng Wen , Yupan Chen , Cuiyun Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Jie M. Zhang , Qing Liao

Our work explores the utilization of deep learning, specifically leveraging the CodeBERT model, to enhance code security testing for Python applications by detecting SQL injection vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional security testing methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Guan-Yan Yang , Yi-Heng Ko , Farn Wang , Kuo-Hui Yeh , Haw-Shiang Chang , Hsueh-Yi Chen

Protecting sensitive program content is a critical issue in various situations, ranging from legitimate use cases to unethical contexts. Obfuscation is one of the most used techniques to ensure such protection. Consequently, attackers must…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Roxane Cohen , Robin David , Florian Yger , Fabrice Rossi

Recently, deep learning (DL) approaches to vulnerability detection have gained significant traction. These methods demonstrate promising results, often surpassing traditional static code analysis tools in effectiveness. In this study, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Pavel Snopov , Andrey Nikolaevich Golubinskiy

With the advancement of deep learning (DL) in various fields, there are many attempts to reveal software vulnerabilities by data-driven approach. Nonetheless, such existing works lack the effective representation that can retain the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Vu Le Anh Quan , Chau Thuan Phat , Kiet Van Nguyen , Phan The Duy , Van-Hau Pham

Code vulnerability detection (CVD) is essential for addressing and preventing system security issues, playing a crucial role in ensuring software security. Previous learning-based vulnerability detection methods rely on either fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xuefeng Jiang , Lvhua Wu , Sheng Sun , Jia Li , Jingjing Xue , Yuwei Wang , Tingting Wu , Min Liu

In software, a vulnerability is a defect in a program that attackers might utilize to acquire unauthorized access, alter system functions, and acquire information. These vulnerabilities arise from programming faults, design flaws, incorrect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Md. Fahim Sultan , Tasmin Karim , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Mohammad Wardat , Mst Shapna Akter

Software vulnerability detection (SVD) is a critical challenge in modern systems. Large language models (LLMs) offer natural-language explanations alongside predictions, but most work focuses on binary evaluation, and explanations often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Samal Mukhtar , Yinghua Yao , Zhu Sun , Mustafa Mustafa , Yew Soon Ong , Youcheng Sun

Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as powerful tools for detecting software vulnerabilities, where task-specific fine-tuning is typically employed to provide vulnerability-specific knowledge to the LLMs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruijun Feng , Hammond Pearce , Pietro Liguori , Yulei Sui

Increasing numbers of software vulnerabilities are discovered every year whether they are reported publicly or discovered internally in proprietary code. These vulnerabilities can pose serious risk of exploit and result in system…

Spotting graphical symbols from the computer-aided design (CAD) drawings is essential to many industrial applications. Different from raster images, CAD drawings are vector graphics consisting of geometric primitives such as segments, arcs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Zhaohua Zheng , Jianfang Li , Lingjie Zhu , Honghua Li , Frank Petzold , Ping Tan