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Coverage-based greybox fuzzing (CGF) is one of the most successful methods for automated vulnerability detection. Given a seed file (as a sequence of bits), CGF randomly flips, deletes or bits to generate new files. CGF iteratively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Van-Thuan Pham , Marcel Böhme , Andrew E. Santosa , Alexandru Răzvan Căciulescu , Abhik Roychoudhury

Mutation testing can help minimize the delivery of faulty software. Therefore, it is a recommended practice for developing embedded software in safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, state-of-the-art mutation testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jaekwon Lee , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have shown incredible promise for zero shot image-to-image translation and editing. Most of these approaches work by combining or replacing network-specific features used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zeqi Gu , Ethan Yang , Abe Davis

Fuzzing is one of the most effective technique to identify potential software vulnerabilities. Most of the fuzzers aim to improve the code coverage, and there is lack of directedness (e.g., fuzz the specified path in a software). In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Xiaogang Zhu , Shigang Liu , Xian Li , Sheng Wen , Jun Zhang , Camtepe Seyit , Yang Xiang

Deep Learning (DL) libraries such as PyTorch provide the core components to build major AI-enabled applications. Finding bugs in these libraries is important and challenging. Prior approaches have tackled this by performing either API-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Feiran Qin , M. M. Abid Naziri , Hengyu Ai , Saikat Dutta , Marcelo d'Amorim

Fuzz testing of software libraries relies on fuzz drivers to invoke library APIs. Traditionally, these drivers are written manually by developers - a process that is time-consuming and often inadequate for exercising complex program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xingyu Liu , Zengqin Huang , Xiang Gao , Hailong Sun

Grey-box fuzz testing has revealed thousands of vulnerabilities in real-world software owing to its lightweight instrumentation, fast coverage feedback, and dynamic adjusting strategies. However, directly applying grey-box fuzzing to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Hongxu Chen , Shengjian Guo , Yinxing Xue , Yulei Sui , Cen Zhang , Yuekang Li , Haijun Wang , Yang Liu

Fonts are integral to creative endeavors, design processes, and artistic productions. The appropriate selection of a font can significantly enhance artwork and endow advertisements with a higher level of expressivity. Despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Lei Kang , Fei Yang , Kai Wang , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Lluis Gomez , Alicia Fornés , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Guided fuzzing has, in recent years, been able to uncover many new vulnerabilities in real-world software due to its fast input mutation strategies guided by path-coverage. However, most fuzzers are unable to achieve high coverage in deeper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Saahil Ognawala , Fabian Kilger , Alexander Pretschner

Recent advances in iterative wavefront shaping (WFS) techniques have made it possible to manipulate the light focusing and transport in scattering media. To improve the optimization performance, various optimization algorithms and improved…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-22 Hui Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Xiaoxue Zhang , Yongquan Liao , Xudong Chen , Zhili Lin

We improve the performance of the American Fuzzy Lop (AFL) fuzz testing framework by using Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) models to reinitialize the system with novel seed files. We assess performance based on the temporal rate at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Nicole Nichols , Mark Raugas , Robert Jasper , Nathan Hilliard

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models have revolutionized content creation by transforming textual descriptions into high-quality images. However, these models are vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, where carefully crafted prompts bypass…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yingkai Dong , Xiangtao Meng , Ning Yu , Zheng Li , Shanqing Guo

Generating valid test inputs for a program is much easier if one knows the input language. We present first successes for a technique that, given a program P without any input samples or models, learns an input grammar that represents the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Rahul Gopinath , Björn Mathis , Mathias Höschele , Alexander Kampmann , Andreas Zeller

Security vulnerabilities play a vital role in network security system. Fuzzing technology is widely used as a vulnerability discovery technology to reduce damage in advance. However, traditional fuzzing techniques have many challenges, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yan Wang , Peng Jia , Luping Liu , Jiayong Liu

Coverage-guided fuzzing's aggressive, high-volume testing has helped reveal tens of thousands of software security flaws. While executing billions of test cases mandates fast code coverage tracing, the nature of binary-only targets leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Stefan Nagy , Anh Nguyen-Tuong , Jason D. Hiser , Jack W. Davidson , Matthew Hicks

Fuzzing has become one of the most popular techniques to identify bugs in software. To improve the fuzzing process, a plethora of techniques have recently appeared in academic literature. However, evaluating and comparing these techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-17 David Paaßen , Sebastian Surminski , Michael Rodler , Lucas Davi

In mutation-based greybox fuzzing, generating high-quality input seeds for the initial corpus is essential for effective fuzzing. Rather than conducting separate phases for generating a large corpus and subsequently minimizing it, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hridya Dhulipala , Xiaokai Rong , Aashish Yadavally , Tien N. Nguyen

The Fuzzy transform is ubiquitous in different research fields and applications, such as image and data compression, data mining, knowledge discovery, and the analysis of linguistic expressions. As a generalisation of the Fuzzy transform,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-28 Giuseppe Patanè

Deep Learning (DL) library bugs affect downstream DL applications, emphasizing the need for reliable systems. Generating valid input programs for fuzzing DL libraries is challenging due to the need for satisfying both language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Chenyuan Yang , Shizhuo Dylan Zhang , Shujing Yang , Lingming Zhang

Fuzzing is one of the fastest growing fields in software testing. The idea behind fuzzing is to check the behavior of software against a large number of randomly generated inputs, trying to cover all interesting parts of the input space,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Rahul Gopinath , Philipp Görz , Alex Groce