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Machine learning-based program analyses have recently shown the promise of integrating formal and probabilistic reasoning towards aiding software development. However, in the absence of large annotated corpora, training these analyses is…

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Symbolic quick error detection (SQED) has greatly improved efficiency in formal chip verification. However, it has a limitation in detecting single-instruction bugs due to its reliance on the self-consistency property. To address this, we…

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Software vulnerabilities (SVs) have become a common, serious, and crucial concern to safety-critical security systems. That leads to significant progress in the use of AI-based methods for software vulnerability detection (SVD). In…

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Detecting vulnerabilities is vital for software security, yet deep learning-based vulnerability detectors (DLVD) face a data shortage, which limits their effectiveness. Data augmentation can potentially alleviate the data shortage, but…

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Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) face increasing challenges processing the growing volume of security-related information. Daily manual analysis of threat reports, security advisories, and vulnerability announcements leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Philipp Kuehn , Markus Bayer , Tobias Frey , Moritz Kerk , Christian Reuter

Heterogeneous data, which encompass both numerical financial variables and textual records, present substantial challenges for credit monitoring. To address this issue, we propose Advanced Spectral Clustering (ASC), a method that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lu Han , Mengyan Li , Jiping Qiang , Zhi Su

Bug severity prediction is important in software maintenance, because it helps the development teams to prioritize bugs that have a significant impact on the operation, stability and security of the system. In large software projects bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Nafisha Tamanna Nice

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

Software vulnerabilities pose serious risks to modern software ecosystems. While the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is the authoritative source for cataloging these vulnerabilities, it often lacks explicit links to the corresponding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Huu Hung Nguyen , Anh Tuan Nguyen , Thanh Le-Cong , Yikun Li , Han Wei Ang , Yide Yin , Frank Liauw , Shar Lwin Khin , Ouh Eng Lieh , Ting Zhang , David Lo

Peer code review is a widely adopted software engineering practice to ensure code quality and ensure software reliability in both the commercial and open-source software projects. Due to the large effort overhead associated with practicing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Masum Hasan , Anindya Iqbal , Mohammad Rafid Ul Islam , A. J. M. Imtiajur Rahman , Amiangshu Bosu

The promising performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in text classification, has attracted researchers to use them for fraud review detection. However, the lack of trusted labeled data has limited the performance of the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Saeedreza Shehnepoor , Roberto Togneri , Wei Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun

Context: Coordination is a fundamental tenet of software engineering. Coordination is required also for identifying discovered and disclosed software vulnerabilities with Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). Motivated by recent…

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Static bug detection tools help developers detect problems in the code, including bad programming practices and potential defects. Recent efforts to integrate static bug detectors in modern software development workflows, such as in code…

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Video-based bug reports are increasingly being used to document bugs for programs centered around a graphical user interface (GUI). However, developing automated techniques to manage video-based reports is challenging as it requires…

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Background: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools purport to assist developers in detecting security issues in source code. These tools typically use rule-based approaches to scan source code for security vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Roland Croft , Dominic Newlands , Ziyu Chen , M. Ali Babar

Semantic Communication (SC) backdoor attacks aim to utilize triggers to manipulate the system into producing predetermined outputs via backdoored shared knowledge. Current SC backdoors adopt monomorphic paradigms with single attack target,…

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Learning-based program repair has achieved good results in a recent series of papers. Yet, we observe that the related work fails to repair some bugs because of a lack of knowledge about 1) the application domain of the program being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-20 He Ye , Matias Martinez , Xiapu Luo , Tao Zhang , Martin Monperrus

Security misconfigurations in Container Orchestrators (COs) can pose serious threats to software systems. While Static Analysis Tools (SATs) can effectively detect these security vulnerabilities, the industry currently lacks automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Ziyang Ye , Triet Huynh Minh Le , M. Ali Babar

This paper introduces an innovative approach that combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with Formal Verification strategies for automatic software vulnerability repair. Initially, we employ Bounded Model Checking (BMC) to identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Norbert Tihanyi , Ridhi Jain , Yiannis Charalambous , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Youcheng Sun , Lucas C. Cordeiro

The growth of open-source software has increased the risk of hidden vulnerabilities that can affect downstream software applications. This concern is further exacerbated by software vendors' practice of silently releasing security patches…

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