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Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in software engineering, yet their effectiveness for binary analysis remains unexplored. We present the first comprehensive evaluation of commercial LLMs for assembly code deobfuscation.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Anton Tkachenko , Dmitrij Suskevic , Benjamin Adolphi

Decompilers are useful tools used in reverse engineering to understand compiled source code. Reconstructing source code from compiled binaries is a challenging task, because high-level syntax, identifiers, and custom data types are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alexander Shypula , Osbert Bastani , Edward Schwartz

The generation of large, high-quality datasets for code understanding and generation remains a significant challenge, particularly when aligning decompiled binaries with their original source code. To address this, we present CodableLLM, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Dylan Manuel , Paul Rad

The key challenge in semantic search is to create models that are both accurate and efficient in pinpointing relevant sentences for queries. While BERT-style bi-encoders excel in efficiency with pre-computed embeddings, they often miss…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Zihan Liao , Hang Yu , Jianguo Li , Jun Wang , Wei Zhang

Decompilers are important tools for reverse engineers that help them analyze software at a higher level of abstraction than assembly code. Unfortunately, because compilation is lossy, deterministic decompilers produce code that is missing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Luke Dramko , Claire Le Goues , Edward J. Schwartz

This paper first presents a new approach to evaluating the descriptive complexity of finite-length binary sequences. Specifically, we investigate the sequence-wise recovery behavior induced by polar compression and successive cancellation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xinyuanmeng Yao , Xiao Ma

Automating the formalization of mathematical statements for theorem proving remains a major challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs struggle to identify and utilize the prerequisite mathematical knowledge and its corresponding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Meiru Zhang , Philipp Borchert , Milan Gritta , Gerasimos Lampouras

We introduce DecompSR, decomposed spatial reasoning, a large benchmark dataset (over 5m datapoints) and generation framework designed to analyse compositional spatial reasoning ability. The generation of DecompSR allows users to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Lachlan McPheat , Navdeep Kaur , Robert Blackwell , Alessandra Russo , Anthony G. Cohn , Pranava Madhyastha

Large Language Models (LLMs) typically excel at coding tasks involving high-level programming languages, as opposed to lower-level programming languages, such as assembly. We propose a synthetic data generation method named C-ing Clearly,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Teodor Poncu , Ioana Pintilie , Marius Dragoi , Dragos Tantaru , Florin Brad

Despite demonstrating emergent reasoning abilities, Large Language Models (LLMS) often lose track of complex, multi-step reasoning. Existing studies show that providing guidance via decomposing the original question into multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Gurusha Juneja , Subhabrata Dutta , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Large language models (LLMs) have made impressive progress in handling simple math problems, yet they still struggle with more challenging and complex mathematical tasks. In this paper, we introduce a series of LLMs that employs the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Chengpeng Li , Guanting Dong , Mingfeng Xue , Ru Peng , Xiang Wang , Dayiheng Liu

Decompilation aims to transform a low-level program language (LPL) (eg., binary file) into its functionally-equivalent high-level program language (HPL) (e.g., C/C++). It is a core technology in software security, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Ying Cao , Ruigang Liang , Kai Chen , Peiwei Hu

Agentic coding systems increasingly use large language models (LLMs) for software engineering tasks such as debugging, root cause analysis, and code review. However, many existing systems encode task logic, execution flow, and output…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Shubhi Asthana , Bing Zhang , Chad DeLuca , Hima Patel , Ruchi Mahindru

Binary malware summarization aims to automatically generate human-readable descriptions of malware behaviors from executable files, facilitating tasks like malware cracking and detection. Previous methods based on Large Language Models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Haolang Lu , Hongrui Peng , Guoshun Nan , Jiaoyang Cui , Cheng Wang , Weifei Jin , Songtao Wang , Shengli Pan , Xiaofeng Tao

A long standing goal of the data management community is to develop general, automated systems that ingest semi-structured documents and output queryable tables without human effort or domain specific customization. Given the sheer variety…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Simran Arora , Brandon Yang , Sabri Eyuboglu , Avanika Narayan , Andrew Hojel , Immanuel Trummer , Christopher Ré

Recent work has shown that integrating large language models (LLMs) with theorem provers (TPs) in neuro-symbolic pipelines helps with entailment verification and proof-guided refinement of explanations for natural language inference (NLI).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xin Quan , Marco Valentino , Louise A. Dennis , André Freitas

The rapid growth of large language models (LLMs) presents significant deployment challenges due to their massive computational and memory demands. While model compression, such as network pruning, offers potential solutions, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ziwei Li , Yuang Ma , Yi Kang

We introduce ReALLM, a novel approach for compression and memory-efficient adaptation of pre-trained language models that encompasses most of the post-training quantization and fine-tuning methods for a budget of <4 bits. Pre-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Louis Leconte , Lisa Bedin , Van Minh Nguyen , Eric Moulines

The rising popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) has motivated exploring their use in code-related tasks. Code LLMs with more than millions of parameters are trained on a massive amount of code in different Programming Languages (PLs).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Ali Reza Ibrahimzada

Denoising language models (DLMs) have been proposed as a powerful alternative to traditional language models (LMs) for automatic speech recognition (ASR), motivated by their ability to use bidirectional context and adapt to a specific ASR…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Dorian Koch , Albert Zeyer , Nick Rossenbach , Ralf Schlüter , Hermann Ney