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Learning robust representations of authorial style is crucial for authorship attribution and AI-generated text detection. However, existing methods often struggle with content-style entanglement, where models learn spurious correlations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hieu Man , Van-Cuong Pham , Nghia Trung Ngo , Franck Dernoncourt , Thien Huu Nguyen

Attributing a piece of malware to its creator typically requires threat intelligence. Binary attribution increases the level of difficulty as it mostly relies upon the ability to disassemble binaries to identify authorship style. Our survey…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Jason Gray , Daniele Sgandurra , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Program authorship attribution has implications for the privacy of programmers who wish to contribute code anonymously. While previous work has shown that complete files that are individually authored can be attributed, we show here for the…

As Large Language Models (LLMs) have reached human-like fluency and coherence, distinguishing machine-generated text (MGT) from human-written content becomes increasingly difficult. While early efforts in MGT detection have focused on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Lucio La Cava , Dominik Macko , Róbert Móro , Ivan Srba , Andrea Tagarelli

Source code authorship attribution is an important problem often encountered in applications such as software forensics, bug fixing, and software quality analysis. Recent studies show that current source code authorship attribution methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zhen Li , Guenevere , Chen , Chen Chen , Yayi Zou , Shouhuai Xu

Authorship attribution refers to the task of automatically determining the author based on a given sample of text. It is a problem with a long history and has a wide range of application. Building author profiles using language models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Zhenhao Ge , Yufang Sun

Despite decades of research on authorship attribution (AA) and authorship verification (AV), inconsistent dataset splits/filtering and mismatched evaluation methods make it difficult to assess the state of the art. In this paper, we present…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Jacob Tyo , Bhuwan Dhingra , Zachary C. Lipton

Graphs of developer networks are important for software engineering research and practice. For these graphs to realistically represent the networks, accurate developer identities are imperative. We aim to identify developer identity errors…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Sadika Amreen , Audris Mockus , Chris Bogart , Yuxia Zhang , Russell Zaretzki

In software development, the identification of source code file experts is an important task. Identifying these experts helps to improve software maintenance and evolution activities, such as developing new features, code reviews, and bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Otávio Cury , Guilherme Avelino , Pedro Santos Neto , Ricardo Britto , Marco Túlio Valente

Authorship Attribution is the task of creating an appropriate characterization of text that captures the authors' writing style to identify the original author of a given piece of text. With increased anonymity on the internet, this task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Aisha Khatun , Anisur Rahman , Md Saiful Islam , Hemayet Ahmed Chowdhury , Ayesha Tasnim

In this paper, we present a novel attack against authorship attribution of source code. We exploit that recent attribution methods rest on machine learning and thus can be deceived by adversarial examples of source code. Our attack performs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Erwin Quiring , Alwin Maier , Konrad Rieck

In an era where cyberattacks increasingly target the software supply chain, the ability to accurately attribute code authorship in binary files is critical to improving cybersecurity measures. We propose OCEAN, a contrastive learning-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Felix Mächtle , Jan-Niclas Serr , Nils Loose , Jonas Sander , Thomas Eisenbarth

With the rapid advancement of AI in code generation, cybersecurity detection engineering faces new opportunities to automate traditionally manual processes. Detection authoring - the practice of creating executable logic that identifies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Fatih Bulut , Carlo DePaolis , Raghav Batta , Anjali Mangal

Authorship analysis (AA) is the study of unveiling the hidden properties of authors from a body of exponentially exploding textual data. It extracts an author's identity and sociolinguistic characteristics based on the reflected writing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Steven H. H. Ding , Benjamin C. M. Fung , Farkhund Iqbal , William K. Cheung

The development of Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) raised the alarm regarding identifying content produced through generative AI or humans. In one case, issues arise when students heavily rely on such tools in a manner that can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Ayat Najjar , Huthaifa I. Ashqar , Omar Darwish , Eman Hammad

Writing style is a combination of consistent decisions associated with a specific author at different levels of language production, including lexical, syntactic, and structural. In this paper, we introduce a style-aware neural model to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Fereshteh Jafariakinabad , Kien A. Hua

The proliferation of generative AI has led to hyper-realistic synthetic videos, escalating misuse risks and outstripping binary real/fake detectors. We introduce SAGA (Source Attribution of Generative AI videos), the first comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Rohit Kundu , Vishal Mohanty , Hao Xiong , Shan Jia , Athula Balachandran , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

This paper contributes in developing source code plagiarism detection that is more aligned with human perspective. Three evaluation mechanisms that directly relate human perspective with evaluated approaches are proposed: think-aloud,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Oscar Karnalim , Lisan Sulistiani

The study of the attribution of input features to the output of neural network models is an active area of research. While numerous Explainable AI (XAI) techniques have been proposed to interpret these models, the systematic and automated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Aria Nourbakhsh , Salima Lamsiyah , Adelaide Danilov , Christoph Schommer

Binary authorship analysis is a significant problem in many software engineering applications. In this paper, we formulate a binary authorship verification task to accurately reflect the real-world working process of software forensic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Qige Song , Yongzheng Zhang , Linshu Ouyang , Yige Chen