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Despite its long-standing popularity and fundamental role in an operating system, the Unix shell has rarely been a subject of academic research. In particular, regardless of the significant progress in compiler testing, there has been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Riccardo Felici , Laura Pozzi , Carlo A. Furia

Smart contracts play a pivotal role in blockchain ecosystems, and fuzzing remains an important approach to securing smart contracts. Even though mutation scheduling is a key factor influencing fuzzing effectiveness, existing fuzzers have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Keke Gai , Haochen Liang , Jing Yu , Liehuang Zhu , Dusit Niyato

Deep Learning (DL) libraries such as PyTorch provide the core components to build major AI-enabled applications. Finding bugs in these libraries is important and challenging. Prior approaches have tackled this by performing either API-level…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Feiran Qin , M. M. Abid Naziri , Hengyu Ai , Saikat Dutta , Marcelo d'Amorim

Fuzz testing to find semantic control vulnerabilities is an essential activity to evaluate the robustness of autonomous driving (AD) software. Whilst there is a preponderance of disparate fuzzing tools that target different parts of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Andrew Roberts , Lorenz Teply , Mert D. Pese , Olaf Maennel , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

Fuzzing is an important method to discover vulnerabilities in programs. Despite considerable progress in this area in the past years, measuring and comparing the effectiveness of fuzzers is still an open research question. In software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Philipp Görz , Björn Mathis , Keno Hassler , Emre Güler , Thorsten Holz , Andreas Zeller , Rahul Gopinath

With the rise of AI-based code generation, customizing existing code out of natural language instructions to modify visual results -such as figures or images -has become possible, promising to reduce the need for deep programming expertise.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Charly Reux , Mathieu Acher , Djamel Eddine Khelladi , Olivier Barais , Clément Quinton

The success of large language models (LLMs) has fostered a new research trend of multi-modality large language models (MLLMs), which changes the paradigm of various fields in computer vision. Though MLLMs have shown promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Boyang Zheng , Jinjin Gu , Shijun Li , Chao Dong

Correctness and robustness are essential for logic synthesis applications, but they are often only tested with a limited set of benchmarks. Moreover, when the application fails on a large benchmark, the debugging process may be tedious and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Siang-Yun Lee , Heinz Riener , Giovanni De Micheli

Unit testing plays a pivotal role in software development, improving software quality and reliability. However, generating effective test cases manually is time-consuming, prompting interest in unit testing research. Recently, Large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ye Shang , Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Siqi Gu , Jianyi Zhou , Zhenyu Chen

Database Management Systems (DBMSs) are fundamental infrastructure for modern data-driven applications, where thorough testing with high-quality SQL test cases is essential for ensuring system reliability. Traditional approaches such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yujia Chen , Yingli Zhou , Fangyuan Zhang , Cuiyun Gao

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements in natural language processing, showcasing exceptional performance across various tasks. However, the expensive memory and computational requirements present significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ruihao Gong , Yifu Ding , Zining Wang , Chengtao Lv , Xingyu Zheng , Jinyang Du , Haotong Qin , Jinyang Guo , Michele Magno , Xianglong Liu

Unit testing is an essential activity in software development for verifying the correctness of software components. However, manually writing unit tests is challenging and time-consuming. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Lin Yang , Chen Yang , Shutao Gao , Weijing Wang , Bo Wang , Qihao Zhu , Xiao Chu , Jianyi Zhou , Guangtai Liang , Qianxiang Wang , Junjie Chen

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have undergone a significant transformation, marked by a rapid rise in both their popularity and capabilities. Leading this evolution are proprietary LLMs like GPT-4 and GPT-o1, which have captured…

Code translation aims to convert source code from one programming language (PL) to another. Given the promising abilities of large language models (LLMs) in code synthesis, researchers are exploring their potential to automate code…

Fuzzing has played an important role in improving software development and testing over the course of several decades. Recent research in fuzzing has focused on applications of machine learning (ML), offering useful tools to overcome…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Gary J Saavedra , Kathryn N Rodhouse , Daniel M Dunlavy , Philip W Kegelmeyer

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has created a diverse landscape of models, each excelling at different tasks. This diversity drives researchers to employ multiple LLMs in practice, leaving behind valuable multi-LLM log…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tao Feng , Haozhen Zhang , Zijie Lei , Pengrui Han , Mostofa Patwary , Mohammad Shoeybi , Bryan Catanzaro , Jiaxuan You

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in bridging visual perception with high-level textual reasoning. However, they face a fundamental contradiction: while excelling at complex semantic understanding,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yifei She , Huangxuan Wu

Fuzz testing has enjoyed great success at discovering security critical bugs in real software. Recently, researchers have devoted significant effort to devising new fuzzing techniques, strategies, and algorithms. Such new ideas are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-22 George Klees , Andrew Ruef , Benji Cooper , Shiyi Wei , Michael Hicks

Traditional database fuzzing techniques primarily focus on syntactic correctness and general SQL structures, leaving critical yet obscure DBMS features, such as system-level modes (e.g., GTID), programmatic constructs (e.g., PROCEDURE),…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yongxin Chen , Zhiyuan Jiang , Chao Zhang , Haoran Xu , Shenglin Xu , Jianping Tang , Zheming Li , Peidai Xie , Yongjun Wang

Fuzzing is a technique of finding bugs by executing a software recurrently with a large number of abnormal inputs. Most of the existing fuzzers consider all parts of a software equally, and pay too much attention on how to improve the code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Yuwei Li , Shouling Ji , Chenyang Lv , Yuan Chen , Jianhai Chen , Qinchen Gu , Chunming Wu