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Accurate and robust disassembly of stripped binaries is challenging. The root of the difficulty is that high-level structures, such as instruction and function boundaries, are absent in stripped binaries and must be recovered based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Kexin Pei , Jonas Guan , David Williams-King , Junfeng Yang , Suman Jana

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has introduced significant security challenges, primarily due to the opacity of firmware components and the complexity of supply chain dependencies. IoT firmware frequently relies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Abdurrahman Tolay

Binary code similarity detection is a core task in reverse engineering. It supports malware analysis and vulnerability discovery by identifying semantically similar code in different contexts. Modern methods have progressed from manually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Charles E. Gagnon , Steven H. H. Ding , Philippe Charland , Benjamin C. M. Fung

Online hashing methods are efficient in learning the hash functions from the streaming data. However, when the hash functions change, the binary codes for the database have to be recomputed to guarantee the retrieval accuracy. Recomputing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu

Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) are showing tremendous success on realistic image classification tasks. Notably, their accuracy is similar to the state-of-the-art accuracy obtained by full-precision models tailored to edge devices. In this…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Franyell Silfa , Jose Maria Arnau , Antonio González

Large-scale embedding-based retrieval (EBR) is the cornerstone of search-related industrial applications. Given a user query, the system of EBR aims to identify relevant information from a large corpus of documents that may be tens or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yukang Gan , Yixiao Ge , Chang Zhou , Shupeng Su , Zhouchuan Xu , Xuyuan Xu , Quanchao Hui , Xiang Chen , Yexin Wang , Ying Shan

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have shown excellent performance in processing sequence data. However, they are both complex and memory intensive due to their recursive nature. These limitations make RNNs difficult to embed on mobile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Arash Ardakani , Zhengyun Ji , Sean C. Smithson , Brett H. Meyer , Warren J. Gross

Binary decompilation aims to recover binaries into high-level source code, but existing evaluations mainly rely on syntactic similarity or single-axis readability metrics, which fail to capture practical reusability. We propose a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Puzhuo Liu , Yuhan Huang , Jianlei Chi , Peng Di , Yu Jiang

Modern software systems heavily use C/C++ based libraries. Because of the weak memory model of C/C++, libraries may suffer from vulnerabilities which can expose the applications to potential attacks. For example, a very large number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Girish Mururu , Chris Porter , Prithayan Barua , Santosh Pande

Binary code similarity analysis (BCSA) is a crucial research area in many fields such as cybersecurity. Specifically, function-level diffing tools are the most widely used in BCSA: they perform function matching one by one for evaluating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zhijie Liu , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Liang Feng Zhang , Yutian Tang

The goal of decompilation is to convert compiled low-level code (e.g., assembly code) back into high-level programming languages, enabling analysis in scenarios where source code is unavailable. This task supports various reverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yunlong Feng , Bohan Li , Xiaoming Shi , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

Binary similarity detection is a critical technique that has been applied in many real-world scenarios where source code is not available, e.g., bug search, malware analysis, and code plagiarism detection. Existing works are ineffective in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zian Liu , Zhi Zhang , Siqi Ma , Dongxi Liu , Jun Zhang , Chao Chen , Shigang Liu , Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed , Yang Xiang

Binary (0-1) integer programming (BIP) is pivotal in scientific domains requiring discrete decision-making. As the advance of AI computing, recent works explore neural network-based solvers for integer linear programming (ILP) problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sen Bai , Chunqi Yang , Xin Bai , Xin Zhang , Zhengang Jiang

Recovering high-level type information in binaries is a key task in reverse engineering and binary analysis. Binaries contain very little explicit type information. The structure of binary code is incredibly flexible allowing for ad-hoc…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ian Smith

In software reverse engineering, decompilation is the process of recovering source code from binary files. Decompilers are used when it is necessary to understand or analyze software for which the source code is not available. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Javier Escalada , Ted Scully , Francisco Ortin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in recent years, driving their adoption across a wide range of domains, including computer security. In reverse engineering, LLMs are increasingly applied to critical tasks such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jun Yeon Won , Xin Jin , Shiqing Ma , Zhiqiang Lin

Decompilation is foundational to binary analysis, yet conventional tools prioritize human readability over strict recompilability and verifiable runtime correctness. While recent LLM-based approaches attempt to refine decompiled pseudocode,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuxin Cui , Zeyu Gao , Shuxian He , Siliang Qin , Chao Zhang

This paper studies the Binary Neural Networks (BNNs) in which weights and activations are both binarized into 1-bit values, thus greatly reducing the memory usage and computational complexity. Since the modern deep neural networks are of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zhijun Tu , Xinghao Chen , Pengju Ren , Yunhe Wang

Binary program analysis represents a fundamental pillar of modern system security. Fine-grained methodologies like dynamic taint analysis still suffer from deployment complexity and performance overhead despite significant progress.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhangbo Long , Letian Sha , Jiaye Pan , Haiping Huang , Dongpeng Xu , Yifei Huang , Fu Xiao

Software projects under version control grow with each commit, accumulating up to hundreds of thousands of commits per repository. Especially for such large projects, the traversal of a repository and data extraction for static source code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Fabian Heseding , Willy Scheibel , Jürgen Döllner