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Due to its powerful automatic feature extraction, deep learning (DL) has been widely used in source code vulnerability detection. However, although it performs well on artificial datasets, its performance is not satisfactory when detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shihan Dou , Yueming Wu , Wenxuan Li , Feng Cheng , Wei Yang , Yang Liu

Malware is one of the most common and severe cyber-attack today. Malware infects millions of devices and can perform several malicious activities including mining sensitive data, encrypting data, crippling system performance, and many more.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pascal Maniriho , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury

With the growing threat of software vulnerabilities, deep learning (DL)-based detectors have gained popularity for vulnerability detection. However, doubts remain regarding their consistency within declared CWE ranges, real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yunqian Wang , Xiaohong Li , Yao Zhang , Yuekang Li , Zhiping Zhou , Ruitao Feng

Deep Learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool for vulnerability detection, often outperforming traditional solutions. However, developing effective DL models requires large amounts of real-world data, which can be difficult to obtain in…

Deep learning (DL) models have become increasingly popular in identifying software vulnerabilities. Prior studies found that vulnerabilities across different vulnerable programs may exhibit similar vulnerable scopes, implicitly forming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Michael Fu , Trung Le , Van Nguyen , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Dinh Phung

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have long been a hot topic in the cybersecurity community. In recent years, with the introduction of deep learning (DL) techniques, IDS have made great progress due to their increasing generalizability. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhiwei Xu , Yujuan Wu , Shiheng Wang , Jiabao Gao , Tian Qiu , Ziqi Wang , Hai Wan , Xibin Zhao

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a crucial tool in network anomaly detection (NAD) for cybersecurity. While DL models for anomaly detection excel at extracting features and learning patterns from data, they are vulnerable to data…

Deep Learning (DL) techniques are now widespread and being integrated into many important systems. Their classification and recognition abilities ensure their relevance for multiple application domains. As machine-learning that relies on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Gaetan J. D. R. Hains , Arvid Jakobsson , Youry Khmelevsky

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

Despite the successes of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) based vulnerability detectors (VD), they are limited to providing only the decision on whether a given code is vulnerable or not, without details on what part of the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen

While much of the current research in deep learning-based vulnerability detection relies on disassembled binaries, this paper explores the feasibility of extracting features directly from raw x86-64 machine code. Although assembly language…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mitchell Petingola

Fine-grained software vulnerability detection is an important and challenging problem. Ideally, a detection system (or detector) not only should be able to detect whether or not a program contains vulnerabilities, but also should be able to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Deqing Zou , Sujuan Wang , Shouhuai Xu , Zhen Li , Hai Jin

Deep Learning (DL) has recently achieved tremendous success. A variety of DL frameworks and platforms play a key role to catalyze such progress. However, the differences in architecture designs and implementations of existing frameworks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qianyu Guo , Sen Chen , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Qiang Hu , Hongtao Liu , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Xiaohong Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have training corpora containing large amounts of program code, greatly improving the model's code comprehension and generation capabilities. However, sound comprehensive research on detecting program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yu Liu , Lang Gao , Mingxin Yang , Yu Xie , Ping Chen , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen

Software security vulnerabilities allow attackers to perform malicious activities to disrupt software operations. Recent Transformer-based language models have significantly advanced vulnerability detection, surpassing the capabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Haoye Tian , He Ye , Ruben Martins , Claire Le Goues

Deep Learning (DL) is the most widely used tool in the contemporary field of computer vision. Its ability to accurately solve complex problems is employed in vision research to learn deep neural models for a variety of tasks, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Naveed Akhtar , Ajmal Mian , Navid Kardan , Mubarak Shah

Deep learning based intrusion detection systems (DL-based IDS) have emerged as one of the best choices for providing security solutions against various network intrusion attacks. However, due to the emergence and development of adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xinwei Yuan , Shu Han , Wei Huang , Hongliang Ye , Xianglong Kong , Fan Zhang

In the context of the rising interest in code language models (code LMs) and vulnerability detection, we study the effectiveness of code LMs for detecting vulnerabilities. Our analysis reveals significant shortcomings in existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yangruibo Ding , Yanjun Fu , Omniyyah Ibrahim , Chawin Sitawarin , Xinyun Chen , Basel Alomair , David Wagner , Baishakhi Ray , Yizheng Chen

In the paced realms of cybersecurity and digital forensics machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) have emerged as game changing technologies that introduce methods to identify stop and analyze cyber risks. This review presents an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Jaouhar Fattahi

Deep learning (DL) defines a new data-driven programming paradigm that constructs the internal system logic of a crafted neuron network through a set of training data. We have seen wide adoption of DL in many safety-critical scenarios.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Lei Ma , Felix Juefei-Xu , Fuyuan Zhang , Jiyuan Sun , Minhui Xue , Bo Li , Chunyang Chen , Ting Su , Li Li , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Yadong Wang