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As the complexity and connectivity of networks increase, the need for novel malware detection approaches becomes imperative. Traditional security defenses are becoming less effective against the advanced tactics of today's cyberattacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Kyle Stein , Andrew A. Mahyari , Guillermo Francia , Eman El-Sheikh

While automated vulnerability detection techniques have made promising progress in detecting security vulnerabilities, their scalability and applicability remain challenging. The remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Avishree Khare , Saikat Dutta , Ziyang Li , Alaia Solko-Breslin , Rajeev Alur , Mayur Naik

Machine learning and Large language models (LLMs) for vulnerability detection has received significant attention in recent years. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art techniques show that LLMs are unsuccessful in even distinguishing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Mohammed Sayagh , Mohammad Ghafari

As modern hardware designs grow in complexity and size, ensuring security across the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) triad becomes increasingly challenging. Information flow tracking (IFT) is a widely-used approach to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Nowfel Mashnoor , Mohammad Akyash , Hadi Kamali , Kimia Azar

We introduce a low-resource safety enhancement method for aligning large language models (LLMs) without the need for supervised fine-tuning (SFT) or reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). Our main idea is to exploit knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Haozheng Luo , Jiahao Yu , Wenxin Zhang , Jialong Li , Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Xinyu Xing , Han Liu

The adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) for automated software vulnerability patching has shown promising outcomes on carefully curated evaluation sets. Nevertheless, existing datasets predominantly rely on superficial validation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Weizhe Wang , Wei Ma , Qiang Hu , Yao Zhang , Jianfei Sun , Bin Wu , Yang Liu , Guangquan Xu , Lingxiao Jiang

The surge of LLM studies makes synthesizing their findings challenging. Analysis of experimental results from literature can uncover important trends across studies, but the time-consuming nature of manual data extraction limits its use.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jungsoo Park , Junmo Kang , Gabriel Stanovsky , Alan Ritter

Software security is crucial in any field where breaches can exploit sensitive data, and lead to financial losses. As a result, vulnerability detection becomes an essential part of the software development process. One of the key steps in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Md. Fahim Sultan , Tasmin Karim , Md. Shazzad Hossain Shaon , Mohammad Wardat , Mst Shapna Akter

To efficiently scale large model (LM) training, researchers transition from data parallelism (DP) to hybrid parallelism (HP) on GPU clusters, which frequently experience hardware and software failures. Existing works introduce in-memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yuxin Wang , Xueze Kang , Shaohuai Shi , Xin He , Zhenheng Tang , Xinglin Pan , Yang Zheng , Xiaoyu Wu , Amelie Chi Zhou , Bingsheng He , Xiaowen Chu

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful foundation for intelligent reasoning and decision-making, demonstrating substantial impact across a wide range of domains and applications. However, their massive parameter scales and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mingyu Sun , Xiao Zhang , Shen Qu , Yan Li , Mengbai Xiao , Yuan Yuan , Dongxiao Yu

Large language models are often adapted through parameter efficient fine tuning, but current release practices provide weak assurances about what data were used and how updates were computed. We present Verifiable Fine Tuning, a protocol…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Hasan Akgul , Daniel Borg , Arta Berisha , Amina Rahimova , Andrej Novak , Mila Petrov

Security code review is a time-consuming and labor-intensive process typically requiring integration with automated security defect detection tools. However, existing security analysis tools struggle with poor generalization, high false…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiaxin Yu , Peng Liang , Yujia Fu , Amjed Tahir , Mojtaba Shahin , Chong Wang , Yangxiao Cai

The rapid evolution of software development necessitates enhanced safety measures. Extracting information about software failures from companies is becoming increasingly more available through news articles. This research utilizes the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Martin Detloff

Dynamic program analysis is invaluable for malware detection, debugging, and performance profiling. However, software-based instrumentation incurs high overhead and can be evaded by anti-analysis techniques. In this paper, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Changyu Zhao , Yohan Beugin , Jean-Charles Noirot Ferrand , Quinn Burke , Guancheng Li , Patrick McDaniel

Sub-billion-parameter Transformer language models are increasingly deployed on edge devices, where the privacy, latency, and operating-cost advantages of on-device inference are constrained by tight memory-bandwidth, energy, and thermal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xinting Jiang , Junyi Luo , Ruichen Qi , Kauna Lei , Ben Laurie , Gregory Kielian , Mehdi Saligane

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has displayed tremendous growth in recent years, resulting in innovations like Industry 4.0 and smart environments that provide improvements to efficiency, management of assets and facilitate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Nickolaos Koroniotis , Nour Moustafa , Benjamin Turnbull , Francesco Schiliro , Praveen Gauravaram , Helge Janicke

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the future of cybersecurity through Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). We explore LLM applications across various domains, including hardware design security, intrusion detection,…

Industrial control systems (ICS) are vital to modern infrastructure but increasingly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, particularly through weaknesses in their communication protocols. This paper presents MALF (Multi-Agent LLM Fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Bowei Ning , Xuejun Zong , Kan He

The rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs) has unveiled critical limitations in current hardware architectures, including constraints in memory capacity, computational efficiency, and interconnection bandwidth. DeepSeek-V3, trained…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Chenggang Zhao , Chengqi Deng , Chong Ruan , Damai Dai , Huazuo Gao , Jiashi Li , Liyue Zhang , Panpan Huang , Shangyan Zhou , Shirong Ma , Wenfeng Liang , Ying He , Yuqing Wang , Yuxuan Liu , Y. X. Wei

Large Language Models (LLMs) show significant promise in automating software vulnerability analysis, a critical task given the impact of security failure of modern software systems. However, current approaches in using LLMs to automate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Sangryu Park , Gihyuk Ko , Homook Cho