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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being studied for Software Vulnerability Detection (SVD) and Repair (SVR). Individual LLMs have demonstrated code understanding abilities, but they frequently struggle when identifying complex…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Arastoo Zibaeirad , Marco Vieira

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in aligning visual and textual modalities, enabling a wide range of applications in multimodal understanding and generation. While they excel in zero-shot and transfer…

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Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence have enabled the creation of highly realistic image forgeries, raising significant concerns about digital media authenticity. While existing detection methods demonstrate promising…

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Context: Software Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) plays a vital role in evaluating and ranking vulnerabilities in software systems to ensure their security and reliability. Objective: Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Zhijie Chen , Xiang Chen , Ziming Li , Jiacheng Xue , Chaoyang Gao

Despite the remarkable multimodal capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), discrepancies often occur between visual inputs and textual outputs--a phenomenon we term visual hallucination. This critical reliability gap poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Tao Huang , Zhekun Liu , Rui Wang , Yang Zhang , Liping Jing

As software systems grow in complexity, security vulnerabilities have become increasingly prevalent, posing serious risks and economic costs. Although automated detection tools such as fuzzers have advanced considerably, effective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingming Zhang , Xu Wang , Jian Zhang , Xiangxin Meng , Jiayi Zhang , Chunming Hu

The increasing prevalence of software vulnerabilities highlights the need for effective Automatic Vulnerability Repair (AVR) tools. While LLM-based approaches are promising, they struggle to incorporate structured security knowledge from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jia Li , Zhuangbin Chen , Yuxin Su , Michael R. Lyu

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in code generation, yet their potential for software protection remains largely untapped. Reverse engineering continues to threaten software security, while traditional virtual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mingqiao Mo , Yunlong Tan , Hao Zhang , Heng Zhang , Yangfan He

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense utility across various industries. However, as LLMs advance, the risk of harmful outputs increases due to incorrect or malicious instruction prompts. While current methods effectively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Xinyi Zeng , Yuying Shang , Jiawei Chen , Jingyuan Zhang , Yu Tian

Language models (LMs) show promise for vulnerability detection but struggle with long, real-world code due to sparse and uncertain vulnerability locations. These issues, exacerbated by token limits, often cause models to miss…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Xinran Zheng , Xingzhi Qian , Huichi Zhou , Shuo Yang , Yiling He , Suman Jana , Lorenzo Cavallaro

Vulnerability detection methods based on deep learning (DL) have shown strong performance on benchmark datasets, yet their real-world effectiveness remains underexplored. Recent work suggests that both graph neural network (GNN)-based and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Chaomeng Lu , Bert Lagaisse

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a dominant AI paradigm due to their exceptional text understanding and generation capabilities. However, their tendency to generate inconsistent or erroneous outputs challenges their reliability,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yedi Zhang , Sun Yi Emma , Annabelle Lee Jia En , Jin Song Dong

Context: Software vulnerabilities pose significant security threats to software systems, especially as software is increasingly used across many areas of daily life, including health, government, and finance. Recently, transformer-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Fiza Naseer , Javed Ali Khan , Muhammad Yaqoob , Alexios Mylonas , Ishaya Gambo

Detecting vulnerability fix commits in open-source software is crucial for maintaining software security. To help OSS identify vulnerability fix commits, several automated approaches are developed. However, existing approaches like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xu Yang , Wenhan Zhu , Michael Pacheco , Jiayuan Zhou , Shaowei Wang , Xing Hu , Kui Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased their remarkable capabilities in diverse domains, encompassing natural language understanding, translation, and even code generation. The potential for LLMs to generate harmful content is a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Mingke Yang , Yuqi Chen , Yi Liu , Ling Shi

Large language models (LLMs) have brought significant advancements to code generation, benefiting both novice and experienced developers. However, their training using unsanitized data from open-source repositories, like GitHub, introduces…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jiexin Wang , Liuwen Cao , Xitong Luo , Zhiping Zhou , Jiayuan Xie , Adam Jatowt , Yi Cai

A key challenge in security analysis is the manual evaluation of potential security weaknesses generated by static application security testing (SAST) tools. Numerous false positives (FPs) in these reports reduce the effectiveness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jonas Wagner , Simon Müller , Christian Näther , Jan-Philipp Steghöfer , Andreas Both

Software vulnerabilities pose significant security challenges and potential risks to society, necessitating extensive efforts in automated vulnerability detection. There are two popular lines of work to address automated vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xin Zhou , Duc-Manh Tran , Thanh Le-Cong , Ting Zhang , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Joshua Sumarlin , Bach Le , David Lo

The integration of open-source third-party library dependencies in Java development introduces significant security risks when these libraries contain known vulnerabilities. Existing Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools struggle to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Wang Lingxiang , Quanzhi Fu , Wenjia Song , Gelei Deng , Yi Liu , Dan Williams , Ying Zhang

Command injection vulnerabilities are a significant security threat in dynamic languages like Python, particularly in widely used open-source projects where security issues can have extensive impact. With the proven effectiveness of Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Yuxuan Wang , Jingshu Chen , Qingyang Wang