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Data-flow analysis is a critical component of security research. Theoretically, accurate data-flow analysis in binary executables is an undecidable problem, due to complexities of binary code. Practically, many binary analysis engines offer…

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Compilers are essential to software systems, and their bugs can propagate to dependent software. Ensuring compiler correctness is critical. However, isolating compiler bugs remains challenging due to the internal complexity of compiler…

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A gradual type system allows developers to declare certain types to be enforced by the compiler (i.e., statically typed), while leaving other types to be enforced via runtime checks (i.e., dynamically typed). When runtime checks fail,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Felipe Bañados Schwerter , Ronald Garcia , Reid Holmes , Karim Ali

Missingness, or the absence of features from an input, is a concept fundamental to many model debugging tools. However, in computer vision, pixels cannot simply be removed from an image. One thus tends to resort to heuristics such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Saachi Jain , Hadi Salman , Eric Wong , Pengchuan Zhang , Vibhav Vineet , Sai Vemprala , Aleksander Madry

The rise of transient faults in modern hardware requires system designers to consider errors occurring at runtime. Both hardware- and software-based error handling must be deployed to meet application reliability requirements. The level of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Björn Bönninghoff , Horst Schirmeier

This paper investigates the problem of correcting multiple criss-cross insertions and deletions in arrays. More precisely, we study the unique recovery of $n \times n$ arrays affected by $t$-criss-cross deletions defined as any combination…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Lorenz Welter , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eitan Yaakobi

Datasets such as Defects4J and BugsInPy that contain bugs from real-world software projects are necessary for a realistic evaluation of automated debugging tools. However these datasets largely identify only a single bug in each entry,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Dylan Callaghan , Bernd Fischer

We consider repair tasks: given a critic (e.g., compiler) that assesses the quality of an input, the goal is to train a fixer that converts a bad example (e.g., code with syntax errors) into a good one (e.g., code with no syntax errors).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Michihiro Yasunaga , Percy Liang

Probing is an important presolving technique in mixed-integer programming solvers. It selects binary variables, tentatively fixes them to 0 and 1, and performs propagation to deduce additional variable fixings, bound tightenings,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Jacob von Holly-Ponientzietz , Alexander Hoen , Mark Turner , Ambros Gleixner

Many binary classification problems minimize misclassification above (or below) a threshold. We show that instances of ranking problems, accuracy at the top or hypothesis testing may be written in this form. We propose a general framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Lukáš Adam , Václav Mácha , Václav Šmídl , Tomáš Pevný

Application Binary Interface (ABI) compatibility is essential for system or software updates to ensure that libraries continue to function. Tools that can assess a binary or library ABI can thus be used to make predictions about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Vanessa Sochat , Tim Haines

Testing is the most widely employed method to find vulnerabilities in real-world software programs. Compositional analysis, based on symbolic execution, is an automated testing method to find vulnerabilities in medium- to large-scale…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Saahil Ognawala , Ricardo Nales Amato , Alexander Pretschner , Pooja Kulkarni

Decompilers are widely used by security researchers and developers to reverse engineer executable code. While modern decompilers are adept at recovering instructions, control flow, and function boundaries, some useful information from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Harrison Green , Edward J. Schwartz , Claire Le Goues , Bogdan Vasilescu

We first give a construction of binary $t_1$-deletion-$t_2$-insertion-burst correcting codes with redundancy at most $\log(n)+(t_1-t_2-1)\log\log(n)+O(1)$, where $t_1\ge 2t_2$. Then we give an improved construction of binary codes capable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Zuo Ye , Ohad Elishco

The PQDSS standardization process requires cryptographic primitives to be free from vulnerabilities, including timing and cache side-channels. Resistance to timing leakage is therefore an essential property, and achieving this typically…

We consider the problem of designing low-redundancy codes in settings where one must correct deletions in conjunction with substitutions or adjacent transpositions; a combination of errors that is usually observed in DNA-based data storage.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ryan Gabrys , Venkatesan Guruswami , João Ribeiro , Ke Wu

Decompilation is widely used in reverse engineering to recover high-level language code from binary executables. While recent approaches leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising progress, they typically treat assembly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yongpan Wang , Xin Xu , Xiaojie Zhu , Xiaodong Gu , Beijun Shen

Binary analysis is an important capability required for many security and software engineering applications. Consequently, there are many binary analysis techniques and tools with varied capabilities. However, testing these tools requires a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Vidush Singhal , Akul Abhilash Pillai , Charitha Saumya , Milind Kulkarni , Aravind Machiry

Proving threshold theorems for fault-tolerant quantum computation is a burdensome endeavor with many moving parts that come together in relatively formulaic but lengthy ways. It is difficult and rare to combine elements from multiple papers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Zhiyang He , Quynh T. Nguyen , Christopher A. Pattison

Background: Compilers are fundamental to software development, translating high-level source code into executable software systems. Faults in compilers can have severe consequences and thus effective localization and resolution of compiler…

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