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Translating software written in C to Rust has significant benefits in improving memory safety. However, manual translation is cumbersome, error-prone, and often produces unidiomatic code. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Tianyang Zhou , Ziyi Zhang , Haowen Lin , Somesh Jha , Mihai Christodorescu , Kirill Levchenko , Varun Chandrasekaran

Task-based chatbots are increasingly being used to deliver real services, yet assessing their reliability, security, and robustness remains underexplored, also due to the lack of large-scale, high-quality datasets. The emerging automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Elena Masserini , Diego Clerissi , Daniela Micucci , João R. Campos , Leonardo Mariani

Workspace learning requires AI agents to identify, reason over, exploit, and update explicit and implicit dependencies among heterogeneous files in a worker's workspace, enabling them to complete both routine and advanced tasks effectively.…

Decompilers are fundamental tools for critical security tasks, from vulnerability discovery to malware analysis, yet their evaluation remains fragmented. Existing approaches primarily focus on syntactic correctness through synthetic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Zeyu Gao , Yuxin Cui , Hao Wang , Siliang Qin , Yuanda Wang , Bolun Zhang , Chao Zhang

Despite remarkable advancements in few-shot generalization in natural language processing, most models are developed and evaluated primarily in English. To facilitate research on few-shot cross-lingual transfer, we introduce a new…

In this paper, we address the problem of automatic repair of software vulnerabilities with deep learning. The major problem with data-driven vulnerability repair is that the few existing datasets of known confirmed vulnerabilities consist…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Zimin Chen , Steve Kommrusch , Martin Monperrus

Software bugs significantly contribute to software cost and increase the risk of system malfunctioning. In recent years, many automated program-repair approaches have been proposed to automatically fix undesired program behavior. Despite of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Dirk Beyer , Lars Grunske , Thomas Lemberger , Minxing Tang

Compilation errors pose pervasive and critical challenges in software development, significantly hindering productivity. Therefore, Automated Compilation Error Repair (ACER) techniques are proposed to mitigate these issues. Despite recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jia Li , Zeyang Zhuang , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Wei Meng , Michael R. Lyu

Recent progress in automated repair of performance bugs demands realistic, executable benchmarks. However, existing C++ performance benchmarks are largely built from competitive programming submissions, and recent real-world benchmarks…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tommy Ho , Khashayar Etemadi , Zhendong Su

Software plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and therefore the quality and security of software systems have become increasingly important. However, vulnerabilities in software still pose a significant threat, as they can have serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Chaozheng Wang , Zongjie Li , Yun Peng , Shuzheng Gao , Sirong Chen , Shuai Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

Dubbed a safer C, Rust is a modern programming language that combines memory safety and low-level control. This interesting combination has made Rust very popular among developers and there is a growing trend of migrating legacy codebases…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Hanliang Zhang , Cristina David , Yijun Yu , Meng Wang

C-RASP is a simple programming language that was recently shown to capture concepts expressible by transformers. In this paper, we develop new algorithmic techniques for automatically verifying C-RASPs. To this end, we establish a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongjian Jiang , Matthew Hague , Philipp Rümmer , Anthony Widjaja Lin

Evaluating language models fairly is increasingly difficult as static benchmarks risk contamination by training data, obscuring whether models truly reason or recall. We introduce BeyondBench, an evaluation framework using algorithmic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Gaurav Srivastava , Aafiya Hussain , Zhenyu Bi , Swastik Roy , Priya Pitre , Meng Lu , Morteza Ziyadi , Xuan Wang

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

Integer overflows have threatened software applications for decades. Thus, in this paper, we propose a novel technique to provide automatic repairs of integer overflows in C source code. Our technique, based on static symbolic execution,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Paul Muntean , Martin Monperrus , Hao Sun , Jens Grossklags , Claudia Eckert

Increasing numbers of software vulnerabilities are discovered every year whether they are reported publicly or discovered internally in proprietary code. These vulnerabilities can pose serious risk of exploit and result in system…

Automatically translating system software from C to Rust is an appealing but challenging problem, as it requires whole-program reasoning to satisfy Rust's ownership and borrowing discipline. A key enabling step in whole-program translation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Victor Chen , Ayden Coughlin , Michael D. Bond

We present a novel approach to mitigate buffer overflow attack using Variable Record Table (VRT). Dedicated memory space is used to automatically record base and bound information of variables extracted during runtime. We instrument frame…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Love Kumar Sah , Sheikh Ariful Islam , Srinivas Katkoori

Robotic manipulation policies have made rapid progress in recent years, yet most existing approaches give limited consideration to memory capabilities. Consequently, they struggle to solve tasks that require reasoning over historical…

Sets have been used for modeling various types of objects (e.g., a document as the set of keywords in it and a customer as the set of the items that she has purchased). Measuring similarity (e.g., Jaccard Index) between sets has been a key…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Geon Lee , Chanyoung Park , Kijung Shin