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Large language models (LLMs) have recently experienced tremendous popularity and are widely used from casual conversations to AI-driven programming. However, despite their considerable success, LLMs are not entirely reliable and can give…

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File systems are critical OS components that require constant evolution to support new hardware and emerging application needs. However, the traditional paradigm of developing features, fixing bugs, and maintaining the system incurs…

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Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools has emerged as a promising approach to solving complex problems. However, traditional methods, which finetune LLMs with tool demonstration data, can be both costly and restricted…

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Real-world programs expecting structured inputs often has a format-parsing stage gating the deeper program space. Neither a mutation-based approach nor a generative approach can provide a solution that is effective and scalable. Large…

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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…

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Fuzzing is an effective bug-finding technique but it struggles with complex systems like JavaScript engines that demand precise grammatical input. Recently, researchers have adopted language models for context-aware mutation in fuzzing to…

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The Language Server Protocol (LSP) has revolutionized the integration of code intelligence in modern software development. There are approximately 300 LSP server implementations for various languages and 50 editors offering LSP integration.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hengcheng Zhu , Songqiang Chen , Valerio Terragni , Lili Wei , Yepang Liu , Jiarong Wu , Shing-Chi Cheung

As the complexity of modern processors has increased over the years, developing effective verification strategies to identify bugs prior to manufacturing has become critical. Undiscovered micro-architectural bugs in processors can manifest…

In the modern era where software plays a pivotal role, software security and vulnerability analysis are essential for secure software development. Fuzzing test, as an efficient and traditional software testing method, has been widely…

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Computer manufacturers offer platforms for users to describe device faults using textual reports such as "My screen is flickering". Identifying the faulty component from the report is essential for automating tests and improving user…

Grammatical error correction aims to correct ungrammatical sentences automatically. Recently, some work has demonstrated the excellent capabilities of closed-source Large Language Models (LLMs, e.g., ChatGPT) in grammatical error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yaxin Fan , Feng Jiang , Peifeng Li , Haizhou Li

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are prone to errors, and identifying where these errors occur is critical for ensuring the reliability and safety of AI systems. In this paper, we propose an approach that automatically generates questions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiajun Xu , Jiageng Mao , Ang Qi , Weiduo Yuan , Alexander Romanus , Helen Xia , Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini , Yue Wang

Automatically detecting software failures is an important task and a longstanding challenge. It requires finding failure-inducing test cases whose test input can trigger the software's fault, and constructing an automated oracle to detect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Tsz-On Li , Wenxi Zong , Yibo Wang , Haoye Tian , Ying Wang , Shing-Chi Cheung , Jeff Kramer

Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) focuses on efficiently reaching specific program locations or triggering particular behaviors, making it essential for tasks like vulnerability detection and crash reproduction. However, existing methods often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Hanxiang Xu , Yanjie Zhao , Haoyu Wang

Fuzzing continues to be the most effective method for identifying security vulnerabilities in software. In the context of fuzz testing, the fuzzer supplies varied inputs to fuzz targets, which are designed to comprehensively exercise…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chi Thien Tran

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in code generation. However, the quality of the generated code is heavily dependent on the structure and composition of the prompts used. Crafting high-quality prompts…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jinyang Li , Sangwon Hyun , M. Ali Babar

Greybox fuzzing is one of the most popular methods for detecting software vulnerabilities, which conducts a biased random search within the program input space. To enhance its effectiveness in achieving deep coverage of program behaviors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in many real-world applications. Nonetheless, LLMs are often criticized for their tendency to produce hallucinations, wherein the models fabricate incorrect statements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Qinggang Zhang , Junnan Dong , Hao Chen , Daochen Zha , Zailiang Yu , Xiao Huang

CPUs are becoming more complex with every generation, at both the logical and the physical levels. This potentially leads to more logic bugs and electrical defects in CPUs being overlooked during testing, which causes data corruption or…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Kostya Serebryany , Maxim Lifantsev , Konstantin Shtoyk , Doug Kwan , Peter Hochschild

The SZZ algorithm is the dominant technique for identifying bug-inducing commits and serves as a foundation for many software engineering studies, such as bug prediction and static code analysis. Researchers have proposed many variants to…

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