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Deep learning vulnerability detection tools are increasing in popularity and have been shown to be effective. These tools rely on large volume of high quality training data, which are very hard to get. Most of the currently available…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Ashwin Kallingal Joshy , Mirza Sanjida Alam , Shaila Sharmin , Qi Li , Wei Le

The widespread adoption of open-source software (OSS) necessitates the mitigation of vulnerability risks. Most vulnerability detection (VD) methods are limited by inadequate contextual understanding, restrictive single-round interactions,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Youpeng Li , Kartik Joshi , Xinda Wang , Eric Wong

We present VulGuard, an automated tool designed to streamline the extraction, processing, and analysis of commits from GitHub repositories for Just-In-Time vulnerability prediction (JIT-VP) research. VulGuard automatically mines commit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Duong Nguyen , Manh Tran-Duc , Thanh Le-Cong , Triet Huynh Minh Le , M. Ali Babar , Quyet-Thang Huynh

Recently, deep learning has demonstrated promising results in enhancing the accuracy of vulnerability detection and identifying vulnerabilities in software. However, these techniques are still vulnerable to attacks. Adversarial examples can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shigang Liu , Di Cao , Junae Kim , Tamas Abraham , Paul Montague , Seyit Camtepe , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

Open-source third-party libraries are widely used in software development. These libraries offer substantial advantages in terms of time and resource savings. However, a significant concern arises due to the publicly disclosed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yi Gao , Xing Hu , Zirui Chen , Xiaohu Yang

The problem of malicious software (malware) detection and classification is a complex task, and there is no perfect approach. There is still a lot of work to be done. Unlike most other research areas, standard benchmarks are difficult to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ahmed Bensaoud , Jugal Kalita , Mahmoud Bensaoud

Machine learning and Large language models (LLMs) for vulnerability detection has received significant attention in recent years. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art techniques show that LLMs are unsuccessful in even distinguishing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mohammed Sayagh , Mohammad Ghafari

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

Deep learning has been shown to be a promising tool in detecting software vulnerabilities. In this work, we train neural networks with program slices extracted from the source code of C/C++ programs to detect software vulnerabilities. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhen Huang , Amy Aumpansub

The proliferation of software vulnerabilities poses a significant challenge for security databases and analysts tasked with their timely identification, classification, and remediation. With the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Daniel Alfasi , Tal Shapira , Anat Bremler Barr

Modern software relies on a multitude of automated testing and quality assurance tools to prevent errors, bugs and potential vulnerabilities. This study sets out to provide a head-to-head, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of six…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Damian Gnieciak , Tomasz Szandala

Software security mainly studies vulnerability detection: is my code vulnerable today? This hinders risk estimation, so new approaches are emerging to forecast the occurrence of future vulnerabilities. While useful, these approaches are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Carlos E. Budde , Ranindya Paramitha , Fabio Massacci

Ensuring that large language models (LLMs) can effectively assess, detect, explain, and remediate software vulnerabilities is critical for building robust and secure software systems. We introduce VADER, a human-evaluated benchmark designed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ethan TS. Liu , Austin Wang , Spencer Mateega , Carlos Georgescu , Danny Tang

We explore the use of multiple deep learning models for detecting flaws in software programs. Current, standard approaches for flaw detection rely on a single representation of a software program (e.g., source code or a program binary). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Scott Heidbrink , Kathryn N. Rodhouse , Daniel M. Dunlavy

Penetration testing is essential for assessing and strengthening system security against real-world threats, yet traditional workflows remain highly manual, expertise-intensive, and difficult to scale. Although recent advances in Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ruozhao Yang , Mingfei Cheng , Gelei Deng , Tianwei Zhang , Junjie Wang , Xiaofei Xie

Software vulnerabilities pose critical security and risk concerns for many software systems. Many techniques have been proposed to effectively assess and prioritize these vulnerabilities before they cause serious consequences. To evaluate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Bonan Ruan , Jiahao Liu , Weibo Zhao , Zhenkai Liang

Visual generation models have achieved remarkable progress in computer graphics applications but still face significant challenges in real-world deployment. Current assessment approaches for visual generation tasks typically follow an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaoyue Mi , Fan Tang , Juan Cao , Qiang Sheng , Ziyao Huang , Peng Li , Yang Liu , Tong-Yee Lee

Code generation models based on the pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm have been increasingly attempted by both academia and industry, resulting in well-known industrial models such as Codex, CodeGen, and PanGu-Coder. To evaluate the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Hao Yu , Bo Shen , Dezhi Ran , Jiaxin Zhang , Qi Zhang , Yuchi Ma , Guangtai Liang , Ying Li , Qianxiang Wang , Tao Xie

The rapid advancement of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has demonstrated promising results for various code-related tasks. However, their effectiveness in detecting real-world vulnerabilities remains a critical challenge. While existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Youpeng Li , Weiliang Qi , Xuyu Wang , Fuxun Yu , Xinda Wang

Recent years have seen smart contracts are getting increasingly popular in building trustworthy decentralized applications. Previous research has proposed static and dynamic techniques to detect vulnerabilities in smart contracts. These…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jiaming Ye , Mingliang Ma , Yun Lin , Lei Ma , Yinxing Xue , Jianjun Zhao