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As one of the most successful and effective software testing techniques in recent years, fuzz testing has uncovered numerous bugs and vulnerabilities in modern software, including network protocol software. In contrast to other fuzzing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Shihao Jiang , Yu Zhang , Junqiang Li , Hongfang Yu , Long Luo , Gang Sun

Coverage-guided fuzzing has been widely applied to address zero-day vulnerabilities in general-purpose software and operating systems. This approach relies on instrumenting the target code at compile time. However, applying it to industrial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Carmine Cesarano , Roberto Natella

GPU memory errors are a critical threat to deep learning (DL) frameworks, leading to crashes or even security issues. We introduce GPU-Fuzz, a fuzzer locating these issues efficiently by modeling operator parameters as formal constraints.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zihao Li , Hongyi Lu , Yanan Guo , Zhenkai Zhang , Shuai Wang , Fengwei Zhang

Fuzzing has gained in popularity for software vulnerability detection by virtue of the tremendous effort to develop a diverse set of fuzzers. Thanks to various fuzzing techniques, most of the fuzzers have been able to demonstrate great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Yu-Fu Fu , Jaehyuk Lee , Taesoo Kim

Testing with randomly generated inputs (fuzzing) has gained significant traction due to its capacity to expose program vulnerabilities automatically. Fuzz testing campaigns generate large amounts of data, making them ideal for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Maria-Irina Nicolae , Max Eisele , Andreas Zeller

GAMMA_FLOW is an open-source Python package for real-time analysis of spectral data. It supports classification, denoising, decomposition, and outlier detection of both single- and multi-component spectra. Instead of relying on large,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Viola Rädle , Tilman Hartwig , Benjamin Oesen , Emily Alice Kröger , Julius Vogt , Eike Gericke , Martin Baron

Web applications require exchanging parameters between a client and a server to function properly. In real-world systems such as online banking transfer, traversing multiple pages with parameters contributed by both the user and server is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Adonis P. H. Fung , Tielei Wang , K. W. Cheung , T. Y. Wong

A popular metric to evaluate the performance of fuzzers is branch coverage. However, we argue that focusing solely on covering many different branches (i.e., the richness) is not sufficient since the majority of the covered branches may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Hoang Lam Nguyen , Lars Grunske

Information leakage is a class of error that can lead to severe consequences. However unlike other errors, it is rarely explicitly considered during the software testing process. LeakFuzzer advances the state of the art by using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

The closed design of mobile devices -- with the increased security and consistent user interfaces -- is in large part responsible for their becoming the dominant platform for accessing the Internet. These benefits, however, are not without…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-15 James Newman , Abbas Razaghpanah , Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez , Fabian E. Bustamante , Mark Allman , Diego Perino , Alessandro Finamore

This paper presents a scalable, practical approach to quantifying information leaks in software; these errors are often overlooked and downplayed, but can seriously compromise security mechanisms such as address space layout randomisation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

A fuzzy observable is regarded as a smearing of a sharp observable, and the structure of covariant fuzzy observables is studied. It is shown that the covariant coarse-grainings of sharp observables are exactly the covariant fuzzy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Heinonen , P. Lahti , K. Ylinen

Gradual numbers have been introduced recently as a means of extending standard interval computation methods to fuzzy intervals. The literature treats monotonic functions of fuzzy intervals. In this paper, we combine the concepts of gradual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-12-20 Elizabeth Untiedt , Weldon Lodwick

Reliable numerical computations are central to scientific computing, but the floating-point arithmetic that enables large-scale models is error-prone. Numeric exceptions are a common occurrence and can propagate through code, leading to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Taylor Allred , Xinyi Li , Ashton Wiersdorf , Ben Greenman , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

In a Gray-Box Optimization (GBO) setting that allows for partial evaluations, the fitness of an individual can be updated efficiently after a subset of its variables has been modified. This enables more efficient evolutionary optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Anton Bouter , Peter A. N. Bosman

Quantitative analysis of Game User eXperience (GUX) is important to the game industry. Different from the typical questionnaire analysis, this paper focuses on the computational analysis of GUX. We aim to analyze the relationship between…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Zhitao Liu , Ning Xie , Guobiao Yang , Jiale Dou , Lanxiao Huang , Guang Yang , Lin Yuan

The emergence of foundational models has greatly improved performance across various downstream tasks, with fine-tuning often yielding even better results. However, existing fine-tuning approaches typically require access to model weights…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Matan Levy , Rami Ben-Ari , Dvir Samuel , Nir Darshan , Dani Lischinski

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

Mutation testing consists of generating test cases that detect faults injected into software (generating mutants) which its original test suite could not. By running such an augmented set of test cases, it may discover actual faults that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jaekwon Lee , Enrico Viganò , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

We present DiffMin, a technique that refines a fuzzed crashing input to gain greater similarities to given passing inputs to help developers analyze the crashing input to identify the failure-inducing condition and locate buggy code for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Kieun Kim , Seongmin Lee , Shin Hong