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Logs, being run-time information automatically generated by software, record system events and activities with their timestamps. Before obtaining more insights into the run-time status of the software, a fundamental step of log analysis,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yintong Huo , Yuxin Su , Cheryl Lee , Michael R. Lyu

Log parsing has been a long-studied area in software engineering due to its importance in identifying dynamic variables and constructing log templates. Prior work has proposed many statistic-based log parsers (e.g., Drain), which are highly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Qiaolin Qin , Roozbeh Aghili , Heng Li , Ettore Merlo

Large industrial systems that combine services and applications, have become targets for cyber criminals and are challenging from the security, monitoring and auditing perspectives. Security log analysis is a key step for uncovering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Xavier Bellekens , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson , Craig Renfrew , Tony Kirkham

Large-scale software systems generate vast volumes of system logs that are essential for monitoring, diagnosing, and performance optimization. However, the unstructured nature and ever-growing scale of these logs present significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shu-Wei Huang , Xingfang Wu , Heng Li

Due to the sheer size of software logs, developers rely on automated log analysis. Log parsing, which parses semi-structured logs into a structured format, is a prerequisite of automated log analysis. However, existing log parsers are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yifan Wu , Bingxu Chai , Siyu Yu , Ying Li , Pinjia He , Wei Jiang , Jianguo Li

There are billions of lines of sequential code inside nowadays' software which do not benefit from the parallelism available in modern multicore architectures. Automatically parallelizing sequential code, to promote an efficient use of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Alcides Fonseca , Bruno Cabral , João Rafael , Ivo Correia

IT environments typically have logging mechanisms to monitor system health and detect issues. However, the huge volume of generated logs makes manual inspection impractical, highlighting the importance of automated log analysis in IT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pranjal Gupta , Karan Bhukar , Harshit Kumar , Seema Nagar , Prateeti Mohapatra , Debanjana Kar

Our modern world relies on a growing number of interconnected and interacting devices, leading to a plethora of logs establishing audit trails for all kinds of events. Simultaneously, logs become increasingly important for forensic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-11 David Koisser , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Log analysis represents a critical sub-domain within AI applications that facilitates automatic approaches to fault and error management of large-scaled software systems, saving labors of traditional manual methods. While existing solutions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yuhe Ji , Yilun Liu , Feiyu Yao , Minggui He , Shimin Tao , Xiaofeng Zhao , Su Chang , Xinhua Yang , Weibin Meng , Yuming Xie , Boxing Chen , Shenglin Zhang , Yongqian Sun

Document parsing, as a fundamental yet crucial vision task, is being revolutionized by vision-language models (VLMs). However, the autoregressive (AR) decoding inherent to VLMs creates a significant bottleneck, severely limiting parsing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lei Li , Ze Zhao , Meng Li , Zhongwang Lun , Yi Yuan , Xingjing Lu , Zheng Wei , Jiang Bian , Zang Li

Many important security properties can be formulated in terms of flows of tainted data, and improved taint analysis tools to prevent such flows are of critical need. Most existing taint analyses use whole-program static analysis, leading to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Nima Karimipour , Kanak Das , Manu Sridharan , Behnaz Hassanshahi

Logs are one of the most critical data for service management. It contains rich runtime information for both services and users. Since size of logs are often enormous in size and have free handwritten constructions, a typical log-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Shimin Tao , Weibin Meng , Yimeng Chen , Yichen Zhu , Ying Liu Chunning Du , Tao Han , Yongpeng Zhao , Xiangguang Wang , Hao Yang

Logs are a common way to record detailed run-time information in software. As modern software systems evolve in scale and complexity, logs have become indispensable to understanding the internal states of the system. At the same time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Armin Catovic , Carolyn Cartwright , Yasmin Tesfaldet Gebreyesus , Simone Ferlin

This work explores an unexpected application of Implicit Computational Complexity (ICC) to parallelize loops in imperative programs. Thanks to a lightweight dependency analysis, our algorithm allows splitting a loop into multiple loops that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Clément Aubert , Thomas Rubiano , Neea Rusch , Thomas Seiller

Existing tamper-evident logging systems suffer from high overhead and severe data loss in high-load settings, yet only provide coarse-grained tamper detection. Moreover, installing such systems requires recompiling kernel code. To address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Rui Zhao , Muhammad Shoaib , Viet Tung Hoang , Wajih Ul Hassan

Parser-based log compression, which separates static templates from dynamic variables, is a promising approach to exploit the unique structure of log data. However, its performance on complex production logs is often unsatisfactory. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Siyu Yu , Yifan Wu , Junjielong Xu , Ying Fu , Ning Wang , Maoyin Liu , Pancheng Jiang , Xiang Zhang , Tong Jia , Pinjia He , Ying Li

Software systems usually record important runtime information in their logs. Logs help practitioners understand system runtime behaviors and diagnose field failures. As logs are usually very large in size, automated log analysis is needed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Hetong Dai , Heng Li , Weiyi Shang , Tse-Hsun Chen , Che-Shao Chen

Logs provide valuable insights into system runtime and assist in software development and maintenance. Log parsing, which converts semi-structured log data into structured log data, is often the first step in automated log analysis. Given…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Nafid Enan , Gias Uddin

Log parsing, a vital task for interpreting the vast and complex data produced within software architectures faces significant challenges in the transition from academic benchmarks to the industrial domain. Existing log parsers, while highly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Wei Zhang , Xianfu Cheng , Yi Zhang , Jian Yang , Hongcheng Guo , Zhoujun Li , Xiaolin Yin , Xiangyuan Guan , Xu Shi , Liangfan Zheng , Bo Zhang

Log parsing is a fundamental step in log analysis, partitioning raw logs into constant templates and dynamic variables. While recent semantic-based parsers leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit superior generalizability over…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Minxing Wang , Yintong Huo