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The study of Code Stylometry, and in particular Code Authorship Attribution (CAA), aims to analyze coding styles to identify the authors of code samples. CAA is crucial in cybersecurity and software forensics for addressing, detecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Atish Kumar Dipongkor , Ziyu Yao , Kevin Moran

Authorship attribution (i.e., determining who is the author of a piece of source code) is an established research topic. State-of-the-art results for the authorship attribution problem look promising for the software engineering field,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Egor Bogomolov , Vladimir Kovalenko , Yurii Rebryk , Alberto Bacchelli , Timofey Bryksin

Code authorship attribution is the problem of identifying authors of programming language codes through the stylistic features in their codes, a topic that recently witnessed significant interest with outstanding performance. In this work,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Soohyeon Choi , Rhongho Jang , DaeHun Nyang , David Mohaisen

Source code authorship attribution is important in software forensics, plagiarism detection, and protecting software patch integrity. Existing techniques often rely on supervised machine learning, which struggles with generalization across…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Soohyeon Choi , Yong Kiam Tan , Mark Huasong Meng , Mohamed Ragab , Soumik Mondal , David Mohaisen , Khin Mi Mi Aung

Detecting AI-generated code, deepfakes, and other synthetic content is an emerging research challenge. As code generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) becomes more common, identifying the specific model behind each sample is increasingly…

Source code segment authorship identification is the task of identifying the author of a source code segment through supervised learning. It has vast importance in plagiarism detection, digital forensics, and several other law enforcement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Parvez Mahbub , Naz Zarreen Oishie , S M Rafizul Haque

Programmer attribution seeks to identify or verify the author of a source code artifact using stylistic, structural, or behavioural characteristics. This problem has been studied across software engineering, security, and digital forensics,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Marek Horvath , Emilia Pietrikova , Diomidis Spinellis

Authorship attribution mainly deals with undecided authorship of literary texts. Authorship attribution is useful in resolving issues like uncertain authorship, recognize authorship of unknown texts, spot plagiarism so on. Statistical…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-10-21 M. Sudheep Elayidom , Chinchu Jose , Anitta Puthussery , Neenu K Sasi

In this paper, we present the first large-scale study exploring whether JavaScript code generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) can reveal which model produced it, enabling reliable authorship attribution and model fingerprinting. With…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Norbert Tihanyi , Bilel Cherif , Richard A. Dubniczky , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Tamás Bisztray

The ability to identify authors of computer programs based on their coding style is a direct threat to the privacy and anonymity of programmers. While recent work found that source code can be attributed to authors with high accuracy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Aylin Caliskan , Fabian Yamaguchi , Edwin Dauber , Richard Harang , Konrad Rieck , Rachel Greenstadt , Arvind Narayanan

Authorship attribution has become increasingly accurate, posing a serious privacy risk for programmers who wish to remain anonymous. In this paper, we introduce SHIELD to examine the robustness of different code authorship attribution…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Mohammed Abuhamad , Changhun Jung , David Mohaisen , DaeHun Nyang

Code authorship attribution (CAA) supports software forensics, plagiarism detection, and intellectual property protection. However, existing supervised CAA approaches suffer from scarce training data and closed-world assumptions: they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jingwei Ye , Zhi Wang , Xin Li , Cong Gao , Chenbin Su , Jieshuai Yang , Jianfei Tang , Ge Chu

The source code of a program not only defines its semantics but also contains subtle clues that can identify its author. Several studies have shown that these clues can be automatically extracted using machine learning and allow for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Micha Horlboge , Erwin Quiring , Roland Meyer , Konrad Rieck

When writing source code, programmers have varying levels of freedom when it comes to the creation and use of identifiers. Do they habitually use the same identifiers, names that are different to those used by others? Is it then possible to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Georgia Frantzeskou , Stephen G. MacDonell , Efstathios Stamatatos , Stelios Georgiou , Stefanos Gritzalis

There are many occasions in which the security community is interested to discover the authorship of malware binaries, either for digital forensics analysis of malware corpora or for thwarting live threats of malware invasion. Such a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Saed Alrabaee , Paria Shirani , Mourad Debbabi , Lingyu Wang

Authorship analysis plays an important role in diverse domains, including forensic linguistics, academia, cybersecurity, and digital content authentication. This paper presents a systematic literature review on two key sub-tasks of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Nudrat Habib , Tosin Adewumi , Marcus Liwicki , Elisa Barney

Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4, PaLM, and Llama have significantly propelled the generation of AI-crafted text. With rising concerns about their potential misuse, there is a pressing need for AI-generated-text forensics. Neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Tharindu Kumarage , Huan Liu

In recent years, code security has become increasingly important, especially with the rise of interconnected technologies. Detecting vulnerabilities early in the software development process has demonstrated numerous benefits. Consequently,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-22 José Gonçalves , Tiago Dias , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

The rapid adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed modern software development by enabling automated code generation at scale. While these systems improve productivity, they introduce new challenges for software governance,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jiaxun Guo , Ziyuan Yang , Mengyu Sun , Hui Wang , Jingfeng Lu , Yi Zhang

Authorship attribution (AA) is the task of identifying the most likely author of a query document from a predefined set of candidate authors. We introduce a two-stage retrieve-and-rerank framework that finetunes LLMs for cross-genre AA.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shantanu Agarwal , Joel Barry , Steven Fincke , Scott Miller
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