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Fuzzing is a popular vulnerability automated testing method utilized by professionals and broader community alike. However, despite its abilities, fuzzing is a time-consuming, computationally expensive process. This is problematic for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Michael Wang , Michael Robinson

In the evolving landscape of integrated circuit (IC) design, the increasing complexity of modern processors and intellectual property (IP) cores has introduced new challenges in ensuring design correctness and security. The recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Venkat Nitin Patnala , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

Mutation-based fuzzing is popular and effective in discovering unseen code and exposing bugs. However, only a few studies have concentrated on quantifying the importance of input bytes, which refers to the degree to which a byte contributes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kunpeng Zhang , Xiaogang Zhu , Xi Xiao , Minhui Xue , Chao Zhang , Sheng Wen

The emerging data-intensive applications are increasingly dependent on data-intensive scalable computing (DISC) systems, such as Apache Spark, to process large data. Despite their popularity, DISC applications are hard to test. In recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Qian Zhang , Jiyuan Wang , Muhammad Ali Gulzar , Rohan Padhye , Miryung Kim

Graph algorithms are widely used for decision making and knowledge discovery. To ensure their effectiveness, it is essential that their output remains stable even when subjected to small perturbations to the input because frequent output…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Soh Kumabe , Yuichi Yoshida

Graph sparsification is a technique that approximates a given graph by a sparse graph with a subset of vertices and/or edges. The goal of an effective sparsification algorithm is to maintain specific graph properties relevant to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuhan Chen , Haojie Ye , Sanketh Vedula , Alex Bronstein , Ronald Dreslinski , Trevor Mudge , Nishil Talati

Continuous fuzzing is an increasingly popular technique for automated quality and security assurance. Google maintains OSS-Fuzz: a continuous fuzzing service for open source software. We conduct the first empirical study of OSS-Fuzz,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Zhen Yu Ding , Claire Le Goues

Despite its long-standing popularity and fundamental role in an operating system, the Unix shell has rarely been a subject of academic research. In particular, regardless of the significant progress in compiler testing, there has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Riccardo Felici , Laura Pozzi , Carlo A. Furia

Many graph problems can be solved using ordered parallel graph algorithms that achieve significant speedup over their unordered counterparts by reducing redundant work. This paper introduces a new priority-based extension to GraphIt, a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Yunming Zhang , Ajay Brahmakshatriya , Xinyi Chen , Laxman Dhulipala , Shoaib Kamil , Saman Amarasinghe , Julian Shun

Fuzzing is a technique widely used in vulnerability detection. The process usually involves writing effective fuzz driver programs, which, when done manually, can be extremely labor intensive. Previous attempts at automation leave much to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Mingrui Zhang , Jianzhong Liu , Fuchen Ma , Huafeng Zhang , Yu Jiang

Federated graph learning is an emerging field with significant practical challenges. While algorithms have been proposed to improve the accuracy of training graph neural networks, such as node classification on federated graphs, the system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yuhang Yao , Yuan Li , Xinyi Fan , Junhao Li , Kay Liu , Weizhao Jin , Yu Yang , Srivatsan Ravi , Philip S. Yu , Carlee Joe-Wong

Fuzzing a library requires experts to understand the library usage well and craft high-quality fuzz drivers, which is tricky and tedious. Therefore, many techniques have been proposed to automatically generate fuzz drivers. However, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yan Li , Wenzhang Yang , Yuekun Wang , Jian Gao , Shaohua Wang , Yinxing Xue , Lijun Zhang

Graphs naturally appear in several real-world contexts including social networks, the web network, and telecommunication networks. While the analysis and the understanding of graph structures have been a central area of study in algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Gramoz Goranci

Verification is a critical process for ensuring the correctness of modern processors. The increasing complexity of processor designs and the emergence of new instruction set architectures (ISAs) like RISC-V have created demands for more…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yang Zhong , Haoran Wu , Xueqi Li , Sa Wang , David Boland , Yungang Bao , Kan Shi

In recent years, fuzz testing has proven itself to be one of the most effective techniques for finding correctness bugs and security vulnerabilities in practice. One particular fuzz testing tool, American Fuzzy Lop or AFL, has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Caroline Lemieux , Koushik Sen

Despite advances in the field of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), only a small number (~5) of datasets are currently used to evaluate new models. This continued reliance on a handful of datasets provides minimal insight into the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-11 John Palowitch , Anton Tsitsulin , Brandon Mayer , Bryan Perozzi

Fuzz testing has become a cornerstone technique for identifying software bugs and security vulnerabilities, with broad adoption in both industry and open-source communities. Directly fuzzing a function requires fuzz drivers, which translate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Paschal C. Amusuo , Dongge Liu , Ricardo Andres Calvo Mendez , Jonathan Metzman , Oliver Chang , James C. Davis

Ever-increasing design complexity of System-on-Chips (SoCs) led to significant verification challenges. Unlike software, bugs in hardware design are vigorous and eternal i.e., once the hardware is fabricated, it cannot be repaired with any…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Deepak Narayan Gadde , Aman Kumar , Djones Lettnin , Sebastian Simon

Fuzzing has become a commonly used approach to identifying bugs in complex, real-world programs. However, interpreters are notoriously difficult to fuzz effectively, as they expect highly structured inputs, which are rarely produced by most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Christopher Salls , Chani Jindal , Jake Corina , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

Since the advent of AFL, the use of mutational, feedback directed, grey-box fuzzers has become critical in the automated detection of security vulnerabilities. A great deal of research currently goes into their optimisation, including…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , David Clark