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As malware continues to become increasingly sophisticated, threatening, and evasive, malware detection systems must keep pace and become equally intelligent, powerful, and transparent. In this paper, we propose Assembly Flow Graph (AFG) to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Griffin Higgins , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Hossein Shokouhinejad , Ali A. Ghorbani

While the majority of existing pre-trained models from code learn source code features such as code tokens and abstract syntax trees, there are some other works that focus on learning from compiler intermediate representations (IRs).…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Changan Niu , Chuanyi Li , Vincent Ng , David Lo , Bin Luo

Many data-driven software engineering tasks such as discovering programming patterns, mining API specifications, etc., perform source code analysis over control flow graphs (CFGs) at scale. Analyzing millions of CFGs can be expensive and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Ramanathan Ramu , Ganesha B Upadhyaya , Hoan Anh Nguyen , Hridesh Rajan

One of the big challenges in program obfuscation consists in modifying not only the program's straight-line code (SLC) but also the program's control flow graph (CFG). Indeed, if only SLC is modified, the program's CFG can be extracted and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Rémi Géraud , Mirko Koscina , Paul Lenczner , David Naccache , David Saulpic

With the increasing popularity of large language models (LLMs), reasoning on basic graph algorithm problems is an essential intermediate step in assessing their abilities to process and infer complex graph reasoning tasks. Existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Qiaolong Cai , Zhaowei Wang , Shizhe Diao , James Kwok , Yangqiu Song

Graph Visualization, also known as Graph Drawing, aims to find geometric embeddings of graphs that optimize certain criteria. Stress is a widely used metric; stress is minimized when every pair of nodes is positioned at their shortest path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Robert Veres , Roger Wattenhofer

Control Flow Graph (CFG) similarity analysis is an essential technique for a variety of security analysis tasks, including malware detection and malware clustering. Even though various algorithms have been developed, existing CFG similarity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Yuping Li , Jiong Jang , Xinming Ou

The high demand for computer science education has led to high enrollments, with thousands of students in many introductory courses. In such large courses, it can be overwhelmingly difficult for instructors to understand class-wide…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Ashley Ge Zhang , Xiaohang Tang , Steve Oney , Yan Chen

Pioneered by Google's Pregel, many distributed systems have been developed for large-scale graph analytics. These systems expose the user-friendly "think like a vertex" programming interface to users, and exhibit good horizontal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Da Yan , James Cheng , M. Tamer Özsu , Fan Yang , Yi Lu , John C. S. Lui , Qizhen Zhang , Wilfred Ng

A visual programming language uses pictorial tools such as diagrams to represent its structural units and control stream. It is useful for enhancing understanding, maintenance, verification, testing, and parallelism. This paper proposes a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Graph layouts are key to exploring massive graphs. An enormous number of nodes and edges do not allow network analysis software to produce meaningful visualization of the pervasive networks. Long computation time, memory and display…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Ehsan Moradi , Debajyoti Mondal

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in graph structure understanding, but remain limited by input-token constraints, facing scalability bottlenecks and lacking effective mechanisms to coordinate textual and visual modalities.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Shuo Han , Yukun Cao , Zezhong Ding , Zengyi Gao , S Kevin Zhou , Xike Xie

Visual rendering of graphs is a key task in the mapping of complex network data. Although most graph drawing algorithms emphasize aesthetic appeal, certain applications such as travel-time maps place more importance on visualization of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-20 Brian Baingana , Georgios B. Giannakis

Program representation, which aims at converting program source code into vectors with automatically extracted features, is a fundamental problem in programming language processing (PLP). Recent work tries to represent programs with neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Ting Long , Yutong Xie , Xianyu Chen , Weinan Zhang , Qinxiang Cao , Yong Yu

Graph learning research has increasingly shifted toward continual graph learning (CGL), which better reflects real-world scenarios where graphs evolve over time. However, existing CGL methods largely assume clean supervision and overlook a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Danhui Zhang , Zhe Wang , Qing Qing , Jiarui Liu , Wentao Gao , Ziqi Xu , Mingliang Hou , Xikun Zhang , Renqiang Luo

Flowcharts are indispensable tools in software design and business-process analysis, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) frequently misinterpret the directional arrows and graph topology that set these diagrams apart from natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Takamitsu Omasa , Ryo Koshihara , Masumi Morishige

Existing defects in software components is unavoidable and leads to not only a waste of time and money but also many serious consequences. To build predictive models, previous studies focus on manually extracting features or using tree…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Anh Viet Phan , Minh Le Nguyen , Lam Thu Bui

Computer graphics seeks to deliver compelling images, generated within a computing budget, targeted at a specific display device, and ultimately viewed by an individual user. The foveated nature of human vision offers an opportunity to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Rachel Brown , Vasha DuTell , Bruce Walter , Ruth Rosenholtz , Peter Shirley , Morgan McGuire , David Luebke

Filtering-based graph neural networks (GNNs) constitute a distinct class of GNNs that employ graph filters to handle graph-structured data, achieving notable success in various graph-related tasks. Conventional methods adopt a graph-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Guoming Li , Jian Yang , Yifan Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have recently taken the world by storm. They can generate coherent text, hold meaningful conversations, and be taught concepts and basic sets of instructions - such as the steps of an algorithm. In this context,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Sara Di Bartolomeo , Giorgio Severi , Victor Schetinger , Cody Dunne