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The security of open-source software repositories is increasingly threatened by next-gen software supply chain attacks. These attacks include multiphase malware execution, remote access activation, and dynamic payload generation.…

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Software vulnerabilities can result in catastrophic cyberattacks that increasingly threaten business operations. Consequently, ensuring the safety of software systems has become a paramount concern for both private and public sectors.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Boyu Zhang , Triet H. M. Le , M. Ali Babar

To address the extremely concerning problem of software vulnerability, system security is often entrusted to Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. Despite their now established detection capabilities, such models are limited by design to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Marco Pintore , Giorgio Piras , Angelo Sotgiu , Maura Pintor , Battista Biggio

Over the past decades, deep learning (DL) systems have achieved tremendous success and gained great popularity in various applications, such as intelligent machines, image processing, speech processing, and medical diagnostics. Deep neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Lei Ma , Felix Juefei-Xu , Minhui Xue , Qiang Hu , Sen Chen , Bo Li , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Jianxiong Yin , Simon See

The influx of deep learning (DL) techniques into the field of survival analysis in recent years has led to substantial methodological progress; for instance, learning from unstructured or high-dimensional data such as images, text or omics…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-23 Simon Wiegrebe , Philipp Kopper , Raphael Sonabend , Bernd Bischl , Andreas Bender

Open-source software vulnerability patch detection is a critical component for maintaining software security and ensuring software supply chain integrity. Traditional manual detection methods face significant scalability challenges when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haoran Xu , Chen Zhi , Junxiao Han , Xinkui Zhao , Jianwei Yin , Shuiguang Deng

Deep-Learning(DL) applications have been widely employed to assist in various tasks. They are constructed based on a data-driven programming paradigm that is different from conventional software applications. Given the increasing popularity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Xufan Zhang , Yilin Yang , Yang Feng , Zhenyu Chen

As the number and complexity of malware attacks continue to increase, there is an urgent need for effective malware detection systems. While deep learning models are effective at detecting malware, they are vulnerable to adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Mahesh Datta Sai Ponnuru , Likhitha Amasala , Tanu Sree Bhimavarapu , Guna Chaitanya Garikipati

Deep Learning (DL) has emerged as a powerful tool for vulnerability detection, often outperforming traditional solutions. However, developing effective DL models requires large amounts of real-world data, which can be difficult to obtain in…

The popularity of Software Defined Networks (SDNs) has grown in recent years, mainly because of their ability to simplify network management and improve network flexibility. However, this also makes them vulnerable to various types of cyber…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Osama Mustafa , Khizer Ali , Talha Naqash

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

In recent years, software systems powered by deep learning (DL) techniques have significantly facilitated people's lives in many aspects. As the backbone of these DL systems, various DL libraries undertake the underlying optimization and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Xiaoyu Zhang , Weipeng Jiang , Chao Shen , Qi Li , Qian Wang , Chenhao Lin , Xiaohong Guan

Deep learning has gained tremendous success and great popularity in the past few years. However, deep learning systems are suffering several inherent weaknesses, which can threaten the security of learning models. Deep learning's wide use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Yingzhe He , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Xingbo Hu , Jinwen He

In recent years, machine learning has demonstrated impressive results in various fields, including software vulnerability detection. Nonetheless, using machine learning to identify software vulnerabilities presents new challenges,…

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Deep Learning (DL) techniques for Natural Language Processing have been evolving remarkably fast. Recently, the DL advances in language modeling, machine translation and paragraph understanding are so prominent that the potential of DL in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Triet H. M. Le , Hao Chen , M. Ali Babar

The rapid expansion of data from diverse sources has made anomaly detection (AD) increasingly essential for identifying unexpected observations that may signal system failures, security breaches, or fraud. As datasets become more complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoqi Huang , Ping Wang , Jianhua Pei , Jiacheng Wang , Shahen Alexanian , Dusit Niyato

Identifying vulnerable code is a precautionary measure to counter software security breaches. Tedious expert effort has been spent to build static analyzers, yet insecure patterns are barely fully enumerated. This work explores a deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yufan Zhuang , Sahil Suneja , Veronika Thost , Giacomo Domeniconi , Alessandro Morari , Jim Laredo

Deep Learning (DL) is vulnerable to out-of-distribution and adversarial examples resulting in incorrect outputs. To make DL more robust, several posthoc (or runtime) anomaly detection techniques to detect (and discard) these anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Saikiran Bulusu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Bo Li , Pramod K. Varshney , Dawn Song

While much of the current research in deep learning-based vulnerability detection relies on disassembled binaries, this paper explores the feasibility of extracting features directly from raw x86-64 machine code. Although assembly language…

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