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We present an alternative approach to creating static bug finders. Instead of relying on human expertise, we utilize deep neural networks to train static analyzers directly from data. In particular, we frame the problem of bug finding as a…

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Context: Deep learning has achieved remarkable progress in various domains. However, like any software system, deep learning systems contain bugs, some of which can have severe impacts, as evidenced by crashes involving autonomous vehicles.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Mehil B. Shah , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Foutse Khomh

The main goal of this research is to produce a useful software for United Nations (UN), that could help to speed up the process of qualifying the UN documents following the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to monitor the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Francesco Sovrano , Monica Palmirani , Fabio Vitali

Automatically detecting software vulnerabilities is an important problem that has attracted much attention from the academic research community. However, existing vulnerability detectors still cannot achieve the vulnerability detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhen Li , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Zhaoxuan Chen , Yawei Zhu , Hai Jin

With the rise in the wholesale adoption of Deep Learning (DL) models in nearly all aspects of society, a unique set of challenges is imposed. Primarily centered around the architectures of these models, these risks pose a significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jamal Al-Karaki , Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan , Mostafa Mohamad , Dababrata Chowdhury

Deep Learning (DL) systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, yet they remain vulnerable to robustness issues that can lead to significant failures. While numerous Test Input Generators (TIGs) have been developed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Seif Mzoughi , Ahmed Haj yahmed , Mohamed Elshafei , Foutse Khomh , Diego Elias Costa

Most enterprise applications use logging as a mechanism to diagnose anomalies, which could help with reducing system downtime. Anomaly detection using software execution logs has been explored in several prior studies, using both classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Nadun Wijesinghe , Hadi Hemmati

The exercise of detecting similar bug reports in bug tracking systems is known as duplicate bug report detection. Having prior knowledge of a bug report's existence reduces efforts put into debugging problems and identifying the root cause.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Avinash Patil , Aryan Jadon

Static analysis plays a crucial role in software vulnerability detection, yet faces a persistent precision-scalability tradeoff. In large codebases like the Linux kernel, traditional static analysis tools often generate excessive false…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Haonan Li , Hang Zhang , Kexin Pei , Zhiyun Qian

Deep learning (DL) along with never-ending advancements in computational processing and cloud technologies have bestowed us powerful analyzing tools and techniques in the past decade and enabled us to use and apply them in various fields of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Khaled M. Rasheed , Hamid R. Arabnia

Automated test generators, such as search based software testing (SBST) techniques, replace the tedious and expensive task of manually writing test cases. SBST techniques are effective at generating tests with high code coverage. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Anjana Perera

The identification of vulnerabilities is an important element in the software development life cycle to ensure the security of software. While vulnerability identification based on the source code is a well studied field, the identification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Andreas Schaad , Dominik Binder

Motivation: Automated bug detection in dynamically typed languages such as Python is essential for maintaining code quality. The lack of mandatory type annotations in such languages can lead to errors that are challenging to identify early…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Boqi Chen , José Antonio Hernández López , Gunter Mussbacher , Dániel Varró

Bug triaging, the task of assigning new issues to developers, is often slow and inconsistent in large projects. We present a lightweight framework that instruction-tuned large language model (LLM) with LoRA adapters and uses…

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Large language models (LLMs) have become central to modern AI workflows, powering applications from open-ended text generation to complex agent-based reasoning. However, debugging these models remains a persistent challenge due to their…

In programming education, Debugging and Teaching (DT) task is a common scenario where students receive assistance in correcting their erroneous code. The task involves multiple inputs, including erroneous code, error messages, reference…

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Software bugs pose a significant challenge during development and maintenance, and practitioners spend nearly 50% of their time dealing with bugs. Many existing techniques adopt Information Retrieval (IR) to localize a reported bug using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Asif Mohammed Samir , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Each year, software vulnerabilities are discovered, which pose significant risks of exploitation and system compromise. We present a convolutional neural network model that can successfully identify bugs in C code. We trained our model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 C. Seas , G. Fitzpatrick , J. A. Hamilton , M. C. Carlisle

The rapidly developing deep learning (DL) techniques have been applied in software systems with various application scenarios. However, they could also pose new safety threats with potentially serious consequences, especially in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Pin Ji , Yang Feng , Duo Wu , Lingyue Yan , Pengling Chen , Jia Liu , Zhihong Zhao

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