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This paper presents the FormAI dataset, a large collection of 112, 000 AI-generated compilable and independent C programs with vulnerability classification. We introduce a dynamic zero-shot prompting technique constructed to spawn diverse…

Software, while beneficial, poses potential cybersecurity risks due to inherent vulnerabilities. Detecting these vulnerabilities is crucial, and deep learning has shown promise as an effective tool for this task due to its ability to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Imam Nur Bani Yusuf , Lingxiao Jiang

Discovering vulnerabilities in applications of real-world complexity is a daunting task: a vulnerability may affect a single line of code, and yet it compromises the security of the entire application. Even worse, vulnerabilities may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Gabriele Costa , Andrea Valenza

Deep Learning (DL)-based methods have proven to be effective for software vulnerability detection, with a potential for substantial productivity enhancements for detecting vulnerabilities. Current methods mainly focus on detecting single…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Xin-Cheng Wen , Xinchen Wang , Yujia Chen , Ruida Hu , David Lo , Cuiyun Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong program repair performance but often suffer from over-editing, where excessive modifications overwrite correct code and hinder bug localization. We systematically quantify its impact and introduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Changxin Ke , Rui Zhang , Jiaming Guo , Yuanbo Wen , Li Ding , Shuo Wang , Xuyuan Zhu , Xiong Peng , Di Huang , Zidong Du , Xing Hu , Qi Guo , Yunji Chen

Due to the difficulty of repairing defect, many research efforts have been devoted into automatic defect repair. Given a buggy program that fails some test cases, a typical automatic repair technique tries to modify the program to make all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Yingfei Xiong , Jie Wang , Runfa Yan , Jiachen Zhang , Shi Han , Gang Huang , Lu Zhang

The repair problem for functional dependencies is the problem where an input database needs to be modified such that all functional dependencies are satisfied and the difference with the original database is minimal. The output database is…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Toon Boeckling , Antoon Bronselaer

Fault localization is a crucial step of automated program repair, because accurately identifying program locations that are most closely implicated with a fault greatly affects the effectiveness of the patching process. An ideal fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Tongtong Xu , Liushan Chen , Yu Pei , Tian Zhang , Minxue Pan , Carlo A. Furia

The thesis advances the field of software security by providing knowledge and automation support for software vulnerability assessment using data-driven approaches. Software vulnerability assessment provides important and multifaceted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Triet H. M. Le

Cardiac rehabilitation constitutes a structured clinical process involving multiple interdependent phases, individualized medical decisions, and the coordinated participation of diverse healthcare professionals. This sequential and adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Alexandre Cabodevila , Pedro Gamallo-Fernandez , Juan C. Vidal , Manuel Lama

All non-trivial software systems suffer from unanticipated production failures. However, those systems are passive with respect to failures and do not take advantage of them in order to improve their future behavior: they simply wait for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Martin Monperrus

Enterprise software organizations face an escalating challenge in maintaining the integrity, security, and freshness of codebases that span hundreds of repositories, multiple programming languages, and thousands of interdependent packages.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Santhosh Kusuma Kumar Parimi

Many ML-based approaches have been proposed to automatically detect, localize, and repair software vulnerabilities. While ML-based methods are more effective than program analysis-based vulnerability analysis tools, few have been integrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Michael Fu , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Trung Le , Yuki Kume , Van Nguyen , Dinh Phung , John Grundy

For securing systems, it is essential to manage their vulnerability posture and design appropriate security controls. Vulnerability management allows to proactively address vulnerabilities by incorporating pertinent security controls into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Avi Shaked , Nan Messe

Programming is increasingly taught using block-based languages like Scratch. While the use of blocks prevents syntax errors, learners can still make semantic mistakes, requiring feedback and help. As teachers may be overwhelmed by help…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sebastian Schweikl , Gordon Fraser

Software security vulnerabilities can lead to severe consequences, making early detection essential. Although code review serves as a critical defense mechanism against security flaws, relevant feedback remains scarce due to limited…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zixiao Zhao , Yanjie Jiang , Hui Liu , Kui Liu , Lu Zhang

Identifying vulnerability-fixing commits corresponding to disclosed CVEs is essential for secure software maintenance but remains challenging at scale, as large repositories contain millions of commits of which only a small fraction address…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-16 André Storhaug , Jiamou Sun , Jingyue Li

Automated Program Repair (APR) plays a critical role in enhancing the quality and reliability of software systems. While substantial progress has been made in Java-based APR, largely facilitated by benchmarks like Defects4J, there remains a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jian Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Shangqing Liu , Jiongchi Yu , Jiaolong Kong , Yi Li

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

Automated program repair (APR) tools have unlocked the potential for the rapid rectification of codebase issues. However, to encourage wider adoption of program repair in practice, it is necessary to address the usability concerns related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-20 David Williams , James Callan , Serkan Kirbas , Sergey Mechtaev , Justyna Petke , Thomas Prideaux-Ghee , Federica Sarro