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Vulnerability identification is crucial for cyber security in the software-related industry. Early identification methods require significant manual efforts in crafting features or annotating vulnerable code. Although the recent pre-trained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Xuxiang Jiang , Yinhao Xiao , Jun Wang , Wei Zhang

Software testing and verification are critical for ensuring the reliability and security of modern software systems. Traditionally, formal verification techniques, such as model checking and theorem proving, have provided rigorous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Norbert Tihanyi , Tamas Bisztray , Mohamed Amine Ferrag , Bilel Cherif , Richard A. Dubniczky , Ridhi Jain , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Security practitioners maintain vulnerability reports (e.g., GitHub Advisory) to help developers mitigate security risks. An important task for these databases is automatically extracting structured information mentioned in the report,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Tianyu Chen , Lin Li , Liuchuan Zhu , Zongyang Li , Xueqing Liu , Guangtai Liang , Qianxiang Wang , Tao Xie

In software development, the predominant emphasis on functionality often supersedes security concerns, a trend gaining momentum with AI-driven automation tools like GitHub Copilot. These tools significantly improve developers' efficiency in…

Due to its powerful automatic feature extraction, deep learning (DL) has been widely used in source code vulnerability detection. However, although it performs well on artificial datasets, its performance is not satisfactory when detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shihan Dou , Yueming Wu , Wenxuan Li , Feng Cheng , Wei Yang , Yang Liu

Thousands of security vulnerabilities are discovered in production software each year, either reported publicly to the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database or discovered internally in proprietary code. Vulnerabilities often…

The growing complexity of cyber threats and the limitations of traditional vulnerability detection tools necessitate novel approaches for securing software systems. We introduce MalCodeAI, a language-agnostic, multi-stage AI pipeline for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jugal Gajjar , Kamalasankari Subramaniakuppusamy , Noha El Kachach

This paper presents MaVEn, an innovative Multi-granularity Visual Encoding framework designed to enhance the capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in multi-image reasoning. Current MLLMs primarily focus on single-image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Chaoya Jiang , Jia Hongrui , Haiyang Xu , Wei Ye , Mengfan Dong , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Shikun Zhang

Software vulnerabilities (SVs) have become a common, serious and crucial concern due to the ubiquity of computer software. Many machine learning-based approaches have been proposed to solve the software vulnerability detection (SVD)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Van Nguyen , Trung Le , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , John Grundy , Hung Nguyen , Dinh Phung

How do security scanners perform on real-world code? We present RealVuln, the first open-source benchmark comparing Rule-Based SAST, General-Purpose LLMs, and Security-Specialized scanners on 26 intentionally vulnerable Python repositories…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 John Pellew , Faizan Raza

Security issues in shipped code can lead to unforeseen device malfunction, system crashes or malicious exploitation by crackers, post-deployment. These vulnerabilities incur a cost of repair and foremost risk the credibility of the company.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Anshul Tanwar , Hariharan Manikandan , Krishna Sundaresan , Prasanna Ganesan , Sathish Kumar Chandrasekaran , Sriram Ravi

Security experts reverse engineer (decompile) binary code to identify critical security vulnerabilities. The limited access to source code in vital systems - such as firmware, drivers, and proprietary software used in Critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Dylan Manuel , Nafis Tanveer Islam , Joseph Khoury , Ana Nunez , Elias Bou-Harb , Peyman Najafirad

PHP's dominance in web development is undermined by security challenges: static analysis lacks semantic depth, causing high false positives; dynamic analysis is computationally expensive; and automated vulnerability localization suffers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhiqiang Wang , Yizhong Ding , Zilong Xiao , Jinyu Lu , Yan Jia , Yanjun Li

Code Language Models (codeLMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used in code vulnerability detection. However, GNNs often rely on aggregating information from adjacent nodes, limiting structural information propagation across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Ruitong Liu , Yanbin Wang , Haitao Xu , Jianguo Sun , Fan Zhang , Peiyue Li , Zhenhao Guo

Context: Software vulnerability assessment (SVA) is critical for identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing security weaknesses in software applications. Objective: Despite the increasing application of large language models (LLMs) in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Chaoyang Gao , Xiang Chen , Guangbei Zhang

The large transformer-based language models demonstrate excellent performance in natural language processing. By considering the transferability of the knowledge gained by these models in one domain to other related domains, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chandra Thapa , Seung Ick Jang , Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed , Seyit Camtepe , Josef Pieprzyk , Surya Nepal

With the rapid growth of large language models for code generation, distinguishing between human-written and AI-generated code has become increasingly critical for academic integrity, hiring evaluations, and software security. We present…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Kargi Chauhan , Sadiba Nusrat Nur

In recent years, the growing complexity and scale of source code have rendered manual software vulnerability detection increasingly impractical. To address this challenge, automated approaches leveraging machine learning and code embeddings…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Talaya Farasat , Joachim Posegga

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in general visual understanding. However, their application to safety-critical driving scenarios remains limited by an inability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tomaso Trinci , Henrique Piñeiro Monteagudo , Leonardo Taccari

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in vulnerability detection. However, a critical reliability gap persists: models frequently yield correct detection verdicts based on hallucinated logic or superficial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Li Lu , Yanjie Zhao , Hongzhou Rao , Kechi Zhang , Haoyu Wang