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Deep learning (DL) techniques are proven effective in many challenging tasks, and become widely-adopted in practice. However, previous work has shown that DL libraries, the basis of building and executing DL models, contain bugs and can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Jiazhen Gu , Xuchuan Luo , Yangfan Zhou , Xin Wang

Collaborative fuzzing combines multiple individual fuzzers and dynamically chooses appropriate combinations for different programs. Unlike individual fuzzers that rely on specific assumptions, collaborative fuzzing relaxes assumptions on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Wenxuan Shi , Hongwei Li , Jiahao Yu , Xinqian Sun , Wenbo Guo , Xinyu Xing

Fuzzing has emerged as a powerful technique for finding security bugs in complicated real-world applications. American fuzzy lop (AFL), a leading fuzzing tool, has demonstrated its powerful bug finding ability through a vast number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Tai D. Nguyen , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

Fuzz testing effectively uncovers software vulnerabilities; however, it faces challenges with Autonomous Systems (AS) due to their vast search spaces and complex state spaces, which reflect the unpredictability and complexity of real-world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Taohong Zhu , Adrians Skapars , Fardeen Mackenzie , Declan Kehoe , William Newton , Suzanne Embury , Youcheng Sun

Grey-box fuzz testing has revealed thousands of vulnerabilities in real-world software owing to its lightweight instrumentation, fast coverage feedback, and dynamic adjusting strategies. However, directly applying grey-box fuzzing to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Hongxu Chen , Shengjian Guo , Yinxing Xue , Yulei Sui , Cen Zhang , Yuekang Li , Haijun Wang , Yang Liu

Fuzzing, a widely-used technique for bug detection, has seen advancements through Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite their potential, LLMs face specific challenges in fuzzing. In this paper, we identified five major challenges of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yu Jiang , Jie Liang , Fuchen Ma , Yuanliang Chen , Chijin Zhou , Yuheng Shen , Zhiyong Wu , Jingzhou Fu , Mingzhe Wang , ShanShan Li , Quan Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained widespread use in various applications due to their powerful capability to generate human-like text. However, prompt injection attacks, which involve overwriting a model's original instructions with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jiahao Yu , Yangguang Shao , Hanwen Miao , Junzheng Shi

We present a coverage-guided testing algorithm for distributed systems implementations. Our main innovation is the use of an abstract formal model of the system that is used to define coverage. Such abstract models are frequently developed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ege Berkay Gulcan , Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan , Rupak Majumdar , Srinidhi Nagendra

Deep learning (DL) libraries are widely used in critical applications, where even subtle silent bugs can lead to serious consequences. While existing DL fuzzing techniques have made progress in detecting crashes, they inherently struggle to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kunpeng Zhang , Dongwei Xiao , Daoyuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Jiali Zhao , Yuanyi Lin , Tongtong Xu , Shaohua Wang

We introduce a modular prompting framework that supports safer and more adaptive use of large language models (LLMs) across dynamic, user-centered tasks. Grounded in human learning theory, particularly the Zone of Proximal Development…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Vanessa Figueiredo

Fuzzing has become a widely adopted technique for vulnerability discovery, yet it remains ineffective for structured-input programs due to strict syntactic constraints and limited semantic awareness. Traditional greybox fuzzers rely on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yihao Zou , Tianming Zheng , Futai Zou , Yue Wu

Fuzzing is a powerful technique for finding bugs in software libraries, but scaling it remains difficult. Automated harness generation commits to fixed API sequences at synthesis time, limiting the behaviors each harness can test.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Harrison Green , Fraser Brown , Claire Le Goues

Mutation-based fuzzing is effective for uncovering compiler bugs, but designing high-quality mutators for modern languages with complex constructs (e.g., templates, macros) remains challenging. Existing methods rely heavily on manual design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Bo Wang , Pengyang Wang , Chong Chen , Ming Deng , Jieke Shi , Qi Sun , Chengran Yang , Youfang Lin , Zhou Yang , Junjie Chen , Jun Sun , David Lo

Modern computing systems heavily rely on hardware as the root of trust. However, their increasing complexity has given rise to security-critical vulnerabilities that cross-layer at-tacks can exploit. Traditional hardware vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mohamadreza Rostami , Marco Chilese , Shaza Zeitouni , Rahul Kande , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

A fundamental problem in cybersecurity and computer science is determining whether a program is free of bugs and vulnerabilities. Fuzzing, a popular approach to discovering vulnerabilities in programs, has several advantages over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ian Hardgrove , John D. Hastings

Deep learning (DL) frameworks serve as the backbone for a wide range of artificial intelligence applications. However, bugs within DL frameworks can cascade into critical issues in higher-level applications, jeopardizing reliability and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shiwen Ou , Yuwei Li , Lu Yu , Chengkun Wei , Tingke Wen , Qiangpu Chen , Yu Chen , Haizhi Tang , Zulie Pan

Deep Learning (DL) library bugs affect downstream DL applications, emphasizing the need for reliable systems. Generating valid input programs for fuzzing DL libraries is challenging due to the need for satisfying both language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Chenyuan Yang , Shizhuo Dylan Zhang , Shujing Yang , Lingming Zhang

Deep learning (DL) systems are increasingly applied to safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving cars. It is of significant importance to ensure the reliability and robustness of DL systems. Existing testing methodologies always…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Jianmin Guo , Yu Jiang , Yue Zhao , Quan Chen , Jiaguang Sun

Compiler correctness is crucial, as miscompilation can falsify program behaviors, leading to serious consequences. Fuzzing has been studied to uncover compiler defects. However, compiler fuzzing remains challenging: Existing arts focus on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Chenyuan Yang , Yinlin Deng , Runyu Lu , Jiayi Yao , Jiawei Liu , Reyhaneh Jabbarvand , Lingming Zhang

Appropriate test data is a crucial factor to reach success in dynamic software testing, e.g., fuzzing. Most of the real-world applications, however, accept complex structure inputs containing data surrounded by meta-data which is processed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Morteza Zakeri Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa , Akram Kalaee