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Developers and organizations are using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate security-critical code more frequently than ever, including cryptographic solutions for their products. This study presents an empirical evaluation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Mohamed Elsayed , Kenneth Fulton , Jeong Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming a wide range of domains, yet verifying their outputs remains a significant challenge, especially for complex open-ended tasks such as consolidation, summarization, and knowledge extraction. To…

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software security, but their trustworthiness in generating accurate vulnerability advisories remains uncertain. This study investigates the ability of ChatGPT to (1) generate plausible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Bayu Fedra Abdullah , Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho , Brittany Reid , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Kazumasa Shimari , Kenichi Matsumoto

In the age of big data and machine learning, at a time when the techniques and methods of software development are evolving rapidly, a problem has arisen: programmers can no longer detect all the security flaws and vulnerabilities in their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Amirreza Bagheri , Péter Hegedűs

Although large language models (LLMs) have been touted for their ability to generate natural-sounding text, there are growing concerns around possible negative effects of LLMs such as data memorization, bias, and inappropriate language.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Michael Kuchnik , Virginia Smith , George Amvrosiadis

We propose a hybrid approach to end-to-end Rust verification where the proof effort is split into powerful automated verification of safe Rust and targeted semi-automated verification of unsafe Rust. To this end, we present Gillian-Rust, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Sacha-Élie Ayoun , Xavier Denis , Petar Maksimović , Philippa Gardner

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated formidable capabilities in solving mathematical problems, yet they may still commit logical reasoning and computational errors during the problem-solving process. Thus, this paper proposes a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kuo Zhou , Lu Zhang

Natural language (NL) is arguably the most prevalent medium for expressing systems and software requirements. Detecting incompleteness in NL requirements is a major challenge. One approach to identify incompleteness is to compare…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Dipeeka Luitel , Shabnam Hassani , Mehrdad Sabetzadeh

Recent work in automated program repair (APR) proposes the use of reasoning and patch validation feedback to reduce the semantic gap between the LLMs and the code under analysis. The idea has been shown to perform well for general APR, but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ummay Kulsum , Haotian Zhu , Bowen Xu , Marcelo d'Amorim

Writing a readme is a crucial aspect of software development as it plays a vital role in managing and reusing program code. Though it is a pain point for many developers, automatically creating one remains a challenge even with the recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Yuta Koreeda , Terufumi Morishita , Osamu Imaichi , Yasuhiro Sogawa

Artificial Intelligence (AI) advancements have enabled the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) that can perform a variety of tasks with remarkable semantic understanding and accuracy. ChatGPT is one such LLM that has gained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 M. Mehdi Kholoosi , M. Ali Babar , Roland Croft

Although Rust ensures memory safety by default, it also permits the use of unsafe code, which can introduce memory safety vulnerabilities if misused. Unfortunately, existing tools for detecting memory bugs in Rust typically exhibit limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Georgios Androutsopoulos , Antonio Bianchi

Recent advancements in generative AI have led to the widespread adoption of large language models (LLMs) in software engineering, addressing numerous long-standing challenges. However, a comprehensive study examining the capabilities of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ting Zhang , Chengran Yang , Yindu Su , Martin Weyssow , Hung Nguyen , Tan Bui , Hong Jin Kang , Yikun Li , Eng Lieh Ouh , Lwin Khin Shar , David Lo

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promising performance in software vulnerability detection, yet their reasoning capabilities remain unreliable. We propose R2Vul, a method that combines reinforcement learning from AI feedback (RLAIF)…

While automated vulnerability detection techniques have made promising progress in detecting security vulnerabilities, their scalability and applicability remain challenging. The remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Avishree Khare , Saikat Dutta , Ziyang Li , Alaia Solko-Breslin , Rajeev Alur , Mayur Naik

Recent advances in leveraging LLMs for APR have demonstrated impressive capabilities in fixing software defects. However, current LLM-based approaches predominantly focus on mainstream programming languages like Java and Python, neglecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wenqiang Luo , Jacky Wai Keung , Boyang Yang , Jacques Klein , Tegawende F. Bissyande , Haoye Tian , Bach Le

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in natural language processing tasks, yet their application in hardware security verification remains limited due to scarcity of publicly available hardware description…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Touseef Hasan , Blessing Airehenbuwa , Nitin Pundir , Souvika Sarkar , Ujjwal Guin

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in code translation, typically evaluated using benchmarks like CodeTransOcean and RepoTransBench. However, dependency-free benchmarks fail to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Guangsheng Ou , Mingwei Liu , Yuxuan Chen , Yanlin Wang , Xin Peng , Zibin Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for program verification, and yet little is known about \emph{how} they reason about program semantics during this process. In this work, we focus on abstract interpretation based-reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jacqueline L. Mitchell , Brian Hyeongseok Kim , Chenyu Zhou , Chao Wang

Context: Software Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) plays a vital role in evaluating and ranking vulnerabilities in software systems to ensure their security and reliability. Objective: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zhijie Chen , Xiang Chen , Ziming Li , Jiacheng Xue , Chaoyang Gao