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Deep learning is an advanced model of traditional machine learning. This has the capability to extract optimal feature representation from raw input samples. This has been applied towards various use cases in cyber security such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Mohammed Harun Babu R , Vinayakumar R , Soman KP

Technology is shaping our lives in a multitude of ways. This is fuelled by a technology infrastructure, both legacy and state of the art, composed of a heterogeneous group of hardware, software, services and organisations. Such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Julia A. Meister , Raja Naeem Akram , Konstantinos Markantonakis

The thesis advances the field of software security by providing knowledge and automation support for software vulnerability assessment using data-driven approaches. Software vulnerability assessment provides important and multifaceted…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Triet H. M. Le

Deep learning has solved a problem that as little as five years ago was thought by many to be intractable - the automatic recognition of patterns in data; and it can do so with accuracy that often surpasses human beings. It has solved…

Various deep learning (DL) methods have recently been utilized to detect software vulnerabilities. Real-world software vulnerability datasets are rare and hard to acquire, as there is no simple metric for classifying vulnerability. Such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Seyed Shayan Daneshvar , Da Tan , Shaowei Wang , Carson Leung

Large Language Models (LLMs) transform artificial intelligence, driving advancements in natural language understanding, text generation, and autonomous systems. The increasing complexity of their development and deployment introduces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Shenao Wang , Yanjie Zhao , Zhao Liu , Quanchen Zou , Haoyu Wang

Timely resolution and disclosure of vulnerabilities are essential for maintaining the security of open-source software. However, many vulnerabilities remain unreported, unpatched, or undisclosed for extended periods, exposing users to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Arjun Sridharkumar , Sara Al Hajj Ibrahim , Jiayuan Zhou , Yuliang Wang , Safwat Hassan , Ahmed E. Hassan , Shurui Zhou

Open-source AI libraries are foundational to modern AI systems, yet they present significant, underexamined risks spanning security, licensing, maintenance, supply chain integrity, and regulatory compliance. We introduce LibVulnWatch, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zekun Wu , Seonglae Cho , Umar Mohammed , Cristian Munoz , Kleyton Costa , Xin Guan , Theo King , Ze Wang , Emre Kazim , Adriano Koshiyama

Cyber intrusion attacks that compromise the users' critical and sensitive data are escalating in volume and intensity, especially with the growing connections between our daily life and the Internet. The large volume and high complexity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Rahul Kale , Zhi Lu , Kar Wai Fok , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape and advanced software development, the rise in cyber security attacks has become a pressing concern. The integration of robust cyber security defenses has become essential across all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Mounika Vanamala , Keith Bryant , Alex Caravella

Crack detection plays a crucial role in civil infrastructures, including inspection of pavements, buildings, etc., and deep learning has significantly advanced this field in recent years. While numerous technical and review papers exist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xinan Zhang , Haolin Wang , Yung-An Hsieh , Zhongyu Yang , Anthony Yezzi , Yi-Chang Tsai

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional progress in multiple domains of software engineering including software vulnerability detection. Using LLMs to automate vulnerability detection in the wild is an important and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Rijha Safdar , Danyail Mateen , Syed Taha Ali , Wajahat Hussain

Web applications continue to be a favorite target for hackers due to a combination of wide adoption and rapid deployment cycles, which often lead to the introduction of high impact vulnerabilities. Static analysis tools are important to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ibéria Medeiros , Nuno Neves , Miguel Correia

Software vulnerabilities represent one of the most pressing threats to computing systems. Identifying vulnerabilities in source code is crucial for protecting user privacy and reducing economic losses. Traditional static analysis tools rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhonghao Jiang , Weifeng Sun , Xiaoyan Gu , Jiaxin Wu , Tao Wen , Haibo Hu , Meng Yan

Deep learning achieves remarkable performance on pattern recognition, but can be vulnerable to defects of some important properties such as robustness and security. This tutorial is based on a stream of research conducted since the summer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Nicolas Berthier , Youcheng Sun , Wei Huang , Yanghao Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang

Deep learning-based vulnerability detection has shown great performance and, in some studies, outperformed static analysis tools. However, the highest-performing approaches use token-based transformer models, which are not the most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Benjamin Steenhoek , Hongyang Gao , Wei Le

Software vulnerabilities (SVs) have emerged as a prevalent and critical concern for safety-critical security systems. This has spurred significant advancements in utilizing AI-based methods, including machine learning and deep learning, for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Van Nguyen , Surya Nepal , Tingmin Wu , Xingliang Yuan , Carsten Rudolph

Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and frequent, highlighting the importance of network intrusion detection systems. This paper explores the potential and challenges of using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wanrong Yang , Alberto Acuto , Yihang Zhou , Dominik Wojtczak

Although using machine learning techniques to solve computer security challenges is not a new idea, the rapidly emerging Deep Learning technology has recently triggered a substantial amount of interests in the computer security community.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yoon-Ho Choi , Peng Liu , Zitong Shang , Haizhou Wang , Zhilong Wang , Lan Zhang , Junwei Zhou , Qingtian Zou

The increase in network attacks has necessitated the development of robust and efficient intrusion detection systems (IDS) capable of identifying malicious activities in real-time. In the last five years, deep learning algorithms have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Richard Kimanzi , Peter Kimanga , Dedan Cherori , Patrick K. Gikunda