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Large-scale datasets have played a crucial role in the advancement of computer vision. However, they often suffer from problems such as class imbalance, noisy labels, dataset bias, or high resource costs, which can inhibit model performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Zhijing Wan , Zhixiang Wang , CheukTing Chung , Zheng Wang

Vulnerability detection methods based on deep learning (DL) have shown strong performance on benchmark datasets, yet their real-world effectiveness remains underexplored. Recent work suggests that both graph neural network (GNN)-based and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chaomeng Lu , Bert Lagaisse

The impact of software vulnerabilities on everyday software systems is significant. Despite deep learning models being proposed for vulnerability detection, their reliability is questionable. Prior evaluations show high recall/F1 scores of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Partha Chakraborty , Krishna Kanth Arumugam , Mahmoud Alfadel , Meiyappan Nagappan , Shane McIntosh

The rapid advancement of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has demonstrated promising results for various code-related tasks. However, their effectiveness in detecting real-world vulnerabilities remains a critical challenge. While existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Youpeng Li , Weiliang Qi , Xuyu Wang , Fuxun Yu , Xinda Wang

Many domains now leverage the benefits of Machine Learning (ML), which promises solutions that can autonomously learn to solve complex tasks by training over some data. Unfortunately, in cyberthreat detection, high-quality data is hard to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tobias Braun , Irdin Pekaric , Giovanni Apruzzese

Datasets serve as crucial training resources and model performance trackers. However, existing datasets have exposed a plethora of problems, inducing biased models and unreliable evaluation results. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chengwen Wang , Qingxiu Dong , Xiaochen Wang , Haitao Wang , Zhifang Sui

Over the past decade, Deep Learning (DL) has become an integral part of our daily lives. This surge in DL usage has heightened the need for developing reliable DL software systems. Given that fault localization is a critical task in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

Traditional data quality control methods are based on users experience or previously established business rules, and this limits performance in addition to being a very time consuming process with lower than desirable accuracy. Utilizing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Wei Dai , Kenji Yoshigoe , William Parsley

Over the past decades, deep learning (DL) systems have achieved tremendous success and gained great popularity in various applications, such as intelligent machines, image processing, speech processing, and medical diagnostics. Deep neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Lei Ma , Felix Juefei-Xu , Minhui Xue , Qiang Hu , Sen Chen , Bo Li , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

Despite various approaches being employed to detect vulnerabilities, the number of reported vulnerabilities shows an upward trend over the years. This suggests the problems are not caught before the code is released, which could be caused…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Karl Tamberg , Hayretdin Bahsi

Software Vulnerabilities (SVs) are increasing in complexity and scale, posing great security risks to many software systems. Given the limited resources in practice, SV assessment and prioritization help practitioners devise optimal SV…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Triet H. M. Le , Huaming Chen , M. Ali Babar

In recent years, software systems powered by deep learning (DL) techniques have significantly facilitated people's lives in many aspects. As the backbone of these DL systems, various DL libraries undertake the underlying optimization and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Xiaoyu Zhang , Weipeng Jiang , Chao Shen , Qi Li , Qian Wang , Chenhao Lin , Xiaohong Guan

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in automated software security, particularly in vulnerability detection. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on isolated, single-vulnerability samples or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chinmay Pushkar , Sanchit Kabra , Dhruv Kumar , Jagat Sesh Challa

The increasing reliance on software in various applications has made the problem of software vulnerability detection more critical. Software vulnerabilities can lead to security breaches, data theft, and other negative outcomes. Traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Saadh Jawwadh , Guhanathan Poravi

Over the past decade, deep learning (DL) has been successfully applied to many industrial domain-specific tasks. However, the current state-of-the-art DL software still suffers from quality issues, which raises great concern especially in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xiyue Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Xiaoning Du , Qiang Hu , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Meng Sun

Deep learning (DL) techniques have achieved great success in predictive accuracy in a variety of tasks, but deep neural networks (DNNs) are shown to produce highly overconfident scores for even abnormal samples. Well-defined uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yufei Li , Simin Chen , Wei Yang

Code vulnerability detection (CVD) is essential for addressing and preventing system security issues, playing a crucial role in ensuring software security. Previous learning-based vulnerability detection methods rely on either fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xuefeng Jiang , Lvhua Wu , Sheng Sun , Jia Li , Jingjing Xue , Yuwei Wang , Tingting Wu , Min Liu

Deep learning (DL) defines a new data-driven programming paradigm that constructs the internal system logic of a crafted neuron network through a set of training data. We have seen wide adoption of DL in many safety-critical scenarios.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Lei Ma , Felix Juefei-Xu , Fuyuan Zhang , Jiyuan Sun , Minhui Xue , Bo Li , Chunyang Chen , Ting Su , Li Li , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Yadong Wang

The quality of underlying training data is very crucial for building performant machine learning models with wider generalizabilty. However, current machine learning (ML) tools lack streamlined processes for improving the data quality. So,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Atindriyo Sanyal , Vikram Chatterji , Nidhi Vyas , Ben Epstein , Nikita Demir , Anthony Corletti

Data is of high quality if it is fit for its intended use. The quality of data is influenced by the underlying data model and its quality. One major quality problem is the heterogeneity of data as quality aspects such as understandability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Viola Wenz , Arno Kesper , Gabriele Taentzer