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Collaborative fuzzing combines multiple individual fuzzers and dynamically chooses appropriate combinations for different programs. Unlike individual fuzzers that rely on specific assumptions, collaborative fuzzing relaxes assumptions on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wenxuan Shi , Hongwei Li , Jiahao Yu , Xinqian Sun , Wenbo Guo , Xinyu Xing

Fuzzing has proven to be very effective for discovering certain classes of software flaws, but less effective in helping developers process these discoveries. Conventional crash-based fuzzers lack enough information about failures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Allison Naaktgeboren , Sean Noble Anderson , Andrew Tolmach , Greg Sullivan

The increasing complexity of modern processor and IP designs presents significant challenges in identifying and mitigating hardware flaws early in the IC design cycle. Traditional hardware fuzzing techniques, inspired by software testing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Raghul Saravanan , Sreenitha Kasarapu , Sai Manoj Pudukotai Dinakarrao

Despite significant advancements in large language models (LLMs), the rapid and frequent integration of small-scale experiences, such as interactions with surrounding objects, remains a substantial challenge. Two critical factors in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yu Wang , Xinshuang Liu , Xiusi Chen , Sean O'Brien , Junda Wu , Julian McAuley

SystemC-based virtual prototypes have emerged as widely adopted tools to test software ahead of hardware availability, reducing the time-to-market and improving software reliability. Recently, fuzzing has become a popular method for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chiara Ghinami , Jonas Winzer , Nils Bosbach , Lennart M. Reimann , Lukas Jünger , Simon Wörner , Rainer Leupers

GPU memory errors are a critical threat to deep learning (DL) frameworks, leading to crashes or even security issues. We introduce GPU-Fuzz, a fuzzer locating these issues efficiently by modeling operator parameters as formal constraints.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zihao Li , Hongyi Lu , Yanan Guo , Zhenkai Zhang , Shuai Wang , Fengwei Zhang

Software vulnerabilities pose critical security threats, with nearly 50,000 CVEs reported in 2025. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise for automated vulnerability detection, three key challenges remain. First, LLM-generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ze Sheng , Zhicheng Chen , Qingxiao Xu , Kewen Zhu , Jeff Huang

Modern processor advancements have introduced security risks, particularly in the form of microarchitectural timing attacks. High-profile attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre have revealed critical flaws, compromising the entire system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Congcong Chen , Jinhua Cui , Jiliang Zhang

Testing a program's capability to effectively handling errors is a significant challenge, given that program errors are relatively uncommon. To solve this, Software Fault Injection (SFI)-based fuzzing integrates SFI and traditional fuzzing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jin Wei , Ping Chen , Jun Dai , Xiaoyan Sun , Zhihao Zhang , Chang Xu , Yi Wanga

We present a coverage-guided testing algorithm for distributed systems implementations. Our main innovation is the use of an abstract formal model of the system that is used to define coverage. Such abstract models are frequently developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ege Berkay Gulcan , Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan , Rupak Majumdar , Srinidhi Nagendra

Regression bugs refer to situations in which something that worked previously no longer works currently. Such bugs have been pronounced in the Linux kernel. The paper focuses on regression bug tracking in the kernel by considering the time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jukka Ruohonen , Adam Alami

Fuzz Testing techniques are the state of the art in software testing for security issues nowadays. Their great effectiveness attracted the attention of researchers and hackers and involved them in developing a lot of new techniques to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Andrea Fioraldi , Luigi Paolo Pileggi

Fuzzing is a widely used software security testing technique that is designed to identify vulnerabilities in systems by providing invalid or unexpected input. Continuous fuzzing systems like OSS-FUZZ have been successful in finding security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaitanya Rahalkar

In this paper we propose an extension to the Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) that aims at aggregating a number of reasoning tasks into a one parallel run. The described approach consists in replacing real-valued activation levels of concepts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Piotr Szwed

Static and dynamic computational graphs represent two distinct approaches to constructing deep learning frameworks. The former prioritizes compiler-based optimizations, while the latter focuses on programmability and user-friendliness. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Qidong Su , Chuqin Geng , Gennady Pekhimenko , Xujie Si

Binary-only fuzzing often struggles with achieving thorough code coverage and uncovering hidden vulnerabilities due to limited insight into a program's internal dataflows. Traditional grey-box fuzzers guide test case generation primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Kai Feng , Jeremy Singer , Angelos K Marnerides

Fuzzing is one of the key techniques for evaluating the robustness of programs against attacks. Fuzzing has to be effective in producing inputs that cover functionality and find vulnerabilities. But it also has to be efficient in producing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Rahul Gopinath , Andreas Zeller

Reference counting bugs in Linux kernel drivers can lead to severe resource mismanagement and security vulnerabilities. We introduce DrvHorn, a novel automated tool to detect these bugs by reducing reference counting verification to an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Joe Hattori , Naoki Kobayashi , Ken Sakayori

Performance portability is a major concern on current architectures. One way to achieve it is by using autotuning. In this paper, we are presenting how we exten ded a just-in-time compilation infrastructure to introduce autotuning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Elian Morel , Camille Coti

Hardware performance monitoring (HPM) is a crucial ingredient of performance analysis tools. While there are interfaces like LIKWID, PAPI or the kernel interface perf\_event which provide HPM access with some additional features, many…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Thomas Röhl , Jan Eitzinger , Georg Hager , Gerhard Wellein