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Binary code similarity analysis (BCSA) is widely used for diverse security applications, including plagiarism detection, software license violation detection, and vulnerability discovery. Despite the surging research interest in BCSA, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Dongkwan Kim , Eunsoo Kim , Sang Kil Cha , Sooel Son , Yongdae Kim

Binary classification is one of the most common problem in machine learning. It consists in predicting whether a given element belongs to a particular class. In this paper, a new algorithm for binary classification is proposed using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alexandre Quemy

Recent advances in LLM-based decompilers have been shown effective to convert low-level binaries into human-readable source code. However, there still lacks a comprehensive benchmark that provides large-scale binary-source function pairs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hanzhuo Tan , Xiaolong Tian , Hanrui Qi , Jiaming Liu , Zuchen Gao , Siyi Wang , Qi Luo , Jing Li , Yuqun Zhang

Matching binary to source code and vice versa has various applications in different fields, such as computer security, software engineering, and reverse engineering. Even though there exist methods that try to match source code with binary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ali TehraniJamsaz , Hanze Chen , Ali Jannesari

Binary code analysis plays an essential role in cybersecurity, facilitating reverse engineering to reveal the inner workings of programs in the absence of source code. Traditional approaches, such as static and dynamic analysis, extract…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jiyong Uhm , Minseok Kim , Michalis Polychronakis , Hyungjoon Koo

Code flaws or vulnerabilities are prevalent in software systems and can potentially cause a variety of problems including deadlock, information loss, or system failure. A variety of approaches have been developed to try and detect the most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Hoa Khanh Dam , Truyen Tran , Trang Pham , Shien Wee Ng , John Grundy , Aditya Ghose

In this work, we begin to investigate the possibility of training a deep neural network on the task of binary code understanding. Specifically, the network would take, as input, features derived directly from binaries and output English…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Interrante-Grant , Andy Davis , Heather Preslier , Tim Leek

This study explores the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) for vulnerability detection in software code, utilizing a real-world dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits. The dataset's structure, based on the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ravil Mussabayev

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

Binary decompilation aims to recover binaries into high-level source code, but existing evaluations mainly rely on syntactic similarity or single-axis readability metrics, which fail to capture practical reusability. We propose a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Puzhuo Liu , Yuhan Huang , Jianlei Chi , Peng Di , Yu Jiang

Developing automated and smart software vulnerability detection models has been receiving great attention from both research and development communities. One of the biggest challenges in this area is the lack of code samples for all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Khadija Hanifi , Ramin F Fouladi , Basak Gencer Unsalver , Goksu Karadag

Large language models (LLMs) can detect software vulnerabilities, but how do they actually identify vulnerable code? We address this question using mechanistic interpretability; analyzing the internal computations of a neural network to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Syafiq Al Atiiq , Chun Zhou , Christian Gehrmann

Malware authors are continuously evolving their code base to include counter-analysis methods that can significantly hinder their detection and blocking. While the execution of malware in a sandboxed environment may provide a lot of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Vasilis Vouvoutsis , Fran Casino , Constantinos Patsakis

Decompilation aims to convert binary code to high-level source code, but traditional tools like Ghidra often produce results that are difficult to read and execute. Motivated by the advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), we propose…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Hanzhuo Tan , Qi Luo , Jing Li , Yuqun Zhang

Deep neural networks are used for a wide range of regression problems. However, there exists a significant gap in accuracy between specialized approaches and generic direct regression in which a network is trained by minimizing the squared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Deval Shah , Zi Yu Xue , Tor M. Aamodt

Binarized neural networks (BNNs) are feedforward neural networks with binary weights and activation functions. In the context of using a BNN for classification, the verification problem seeks to determine whether a small perturbation of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Woojin Kim , James R. Luedtke

Vulnerability Detection (VD) using machine learning faces a significant challenge: the vast diversity of vulnerability types. Each Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) represents a unique category of vulnerabilities with distinct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Syafiq Al Atiiq , Christian Gehrmann , Kevin Dahlén , Karim Khalil

Machine learning and deep learning in particular has been recently used to successfully address many tasks in the domain of code such as finding and fixing bugs, code completion, decompilation, type inference and many others. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Pavol Bielik , Martin Vechev

Understanding the functional (dis)-similarity of source code is significant for code modeling tasks such as software vulnerability and code clone detection. We present DISCO(DIS-similarity of COde), a novel self-supervised model focusing on…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Yangruibo Ding , Luca Buratti , Saurabh Pujar , Alessandro Morari , Baishakhi Ray , Saikat Chakraborty

In this paper, we propose a novel approach for mining different program features by analysing the internal behaviour of a deep neural network trained on source code. Using an unlabelled dataset of Java programs and three different embedding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Martina Saletta , Claudio Ferretti