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Fuzzing is a powerful technique for finding bugs in software libraries, but scaling it remains difficult. Automated harness generation commits to fixed API sequences at synthesis time, limiting the behaviors each harness can test.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Harrison Green , Fraser Brown , Claire Le Goues

We design and implement from scratch a new fuzzer called SIVO that refines multiple stages of grey-box fuzzing. First, SIVO refines data-flow fuzzing in two ways: (a) it provides a new taint inference engine that requires only logarithmic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Ivica Nikolic , Radu Mantu , Shiqi Shen , Prateek Saxena

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown very impressive capabilities in code generation across many programming languages. However, even state-of-the-art LLMs generate programs that contains syntactic errors and fail…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 David Jiahao Fu , Aryan Gupta , Aaron Councilman , David Grove , Yu-Xiong Wang , Vikram Adve

Fuzzing a library requires experts to understand the library usage well and craft high-quality fuzz drivers, which is tricky and tedious. Therefore, many techniques have been proposed to automatically generate fuzz drivers. However, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yan Li , Wenzhang Yang , Yuekun Wang , Jian Gao , Shaohua Wang , Yinxing Xue , Lijun Zhang

Fuzzing is a popular bug detection technique achieved by testing software executables with random inputs. This technique can also be extended to libraries by constructing executables that call library APIs, known as fuzz drivers. Automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yehong Zhang , Jun Wu , Hui Xu

Despite significant advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for understanding complex human intentions through cross-modal interactions, capturing intricate image details remains challenging. Previous methods integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yue Cao , Yangzhou Liu , Zhe Chen , Guangchen Shi , Wenhai Wang , Danhuai Zhao , Tong Lu

The trend towards specialization of software and hardware - fuelled by the end of Moore's law and the still accelerating interest in domain-specific computing, such as machine learning - forces us to radically rethink our compiler designs.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Michel Steuwer , Thomas Koehler , Bastian Köpcke , Federico Pizzuti

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matthew Kelly , Christoph Treude , Alex Murray

Prompt injection has emerged as a critical security threat to large language models (LLMs), yet existing studies predominantly focus on single-dimensional attack strategies, such as semantic rewriting or character-level obfuscation, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Junyu Ren , Xingjian Pan , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

Directed fuzzing performs best for targeted program testing via estimating the impact of each input in reaching predefined program points. But due to insufficient analysis of the program structure and lack of flexibility and configurability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Darya Parygina , Timofey Mezhuev , Daniil Kuts

Vision-language foundation models like CLIP have shown impressive zero-shot generalization, but finetuning on downstream datasets can cause overfitting and loss of its generalization ability on unseen domains. Although collecting additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Siyuan Yan , Cheng Luo , Zhen Yu , Zongyuan Ge

The SZZ algorithm is the dominant technique for identifying bug-inducing commits and underpins many software engineering tasks, such as defect prediction and vulnerability analysis. Despite numerous variants, including recent LLM-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yunbo Lyu , Jieke Shi , Hong Jin Kang , Ratnadira Widyasari , Junda He , Yuqing Niu , Chengran Yang , Junkai Chen , Zhou Yang , Julia Lawall , David Lo

Recent years have witnessed a wide array of results in software testing, exploring different approaches and methodologies ranging from fuzzers to symbolic engines, with a full spectrum of instances in between such as concolic execution and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Luca Borzacchiello , Emilio Coppa , Camil Demetrescu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have played an increasingly important role in multimodal intelligence. However, the existing fine-tuning methods often ignore cross-modal heterogeneity, limiting their full potential. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ruishu Zhu , Sida Huang , Ziheng Jiao , Hongyuan Zhang

Traditional database fuzzing techniques primarily focus on syntactic correctness and general SQL structures, leaving critical yet obscure DBMS features, such as system-level modes (e.g., GTID), programmatic constructs (e.g., PROCEDURE),…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yongxin Chen , Zhiyuan Jiang , Chao Zhang , Haoran Xu , Shenglin Xu , Jianping Tang , Zheming Li , Peidai Xie , Yongjun Wang

Modern research in code generators for dense linear algebra computations has shown the ability to produce optimized code with a performance which compares and often exceeds the one of state-of-the-art implementations by domain experts.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Lorenzo Chelini , Henrik Barthels , Paolo Bientinesi , Marcin Copik , Tobias Grosser , Daniele G. Spampinato

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have spurred significant interest in continuous story image generation. In this paper, we introduce Storynizor, a model capable of generating coherent stories with strong inter-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Yuhang Ma , Wenting Xu , Chaoyi Zhao , Keqiang Sun , Qinfeng Jin , Zeng Zhao , Changjie Fan , Zhipeng Hu

Large-scale cross-lingual language models (LM), such as mBERT, Unicoder and XLM, have achieved great success in cross-lingual representation learning. However, when applied to zero-shot cross-lingual transfer tasks, most existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yuwei Fang , Shuohang Wang , Zhe Gan , Siqi Sun , Jingjing Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly exhibit over-refusal - erroneously rejecting benign queries due to overly conservative safety measures - a critical functional flaw that undermines their reliability and usability. Current methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Haonan Zhang , Dongxia Wang , Yi Liu , Kexin Chen , Jiashui Wang , Xinlei Ying , Long Liu , Wenhai Wang

Generation-based fuzzing is a software testing approach which is able to discover different types of bugs and vulnerabilities in software. It is, however, known to be very time consuming to design and fine tune classical fuzzers to achieve…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Martin Sablotny , Bjørn Sand Jensen , Chris W. Johnson