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Static program analysis tools are often required to work with only a small part of a program's source code, either due to the unavailability of the entire program or the lack of need to analyze the complete code. This makes it challenging…

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With the increasing sophistication of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), the demand for effective detection and mitigation strategies and methods has escalated. Program execution leaves traces in the system audit log, which can be analyzed…

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We present an alternative approach to creating static bug finders. Instead of relying on human expertise, we utilize deep neural networks to train static analyzers directly from data. In particular, we frame the problem of bug finding as a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Yu Wang , Fengjuan Gao , Linzhang Wang , Ke Wang

In this paper, we present a challenging code reasoning task: vulnerability detection. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results in natural-language and math reasoning, but state-of-the-art (SOTA) models reported only 54.5%…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Benjamin Steenhoek , Md Mahbubur Rahman , Monoshi Kumar Roy , Mirza Sanjida Alam , Hengbo Tong , Swarna Das , Earl T. Barr , Wei Le

Thanks to unprecedented language understanding and generation capabilities of large language model (LLM), Retrieval-augmented Code Generation (RaCG) has recently been widely utilized among software developers. While this has increased…

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Static analyzers play a critical role in identifying bugs early in the software development lifecycle, but their rule implementations are often under-tested and prone to inconsistencies. To address this, we propose StaAgent, an agentic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Elijah Nnorom , Md Basim Uddin Ahmed , Jiho Shin , Hung Viet Pham , Song Wang

Recurring industrial analytics and machine-learning workflows are becoming a major computational burden in modern engineering practice. Large parametric database generation, scheduled model retraining, repeated evaluation pipelines, and…

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YARA has established itself as the de facto standard for "Detection as Code," enabling analysts and DevSecOps practitioners to define signatures for malware identification across the software supply chain. Despite its pervasive use, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dectot--Le Monnier de Gouville Esteban , Mohammad Hamdaqa , Moataz Chouchen

Anomaly detection is a crucial and challenging subject that has been studied within diverse research areas. In this work, we explore the task of log anomaly detection (especially computer system logs and user behavior logs) by analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Yicheng Guo , Yujin Wen , Congwei Jiang , Yixin Lian , Yi Wan

Code comments are important artifacts in software systems and play a paramount role in many software engineering (SE) tasks related to maintenance and program comprehension. However, while it is widely accepted that high quality matters in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Pooja Rani , Arianna Blasi , Nataliia Stulova , Sebastiano Panichella , Alessandra Gorla , Oscar Nierstrasz

Modern automotive software is highly complex and consists of millions lines of code. For safety-relevant automotive software, it is recommended to use sound static program analysis to prove the absence of runtime errors. However, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jesko Hecking-Harbusch , Jochen Quante , Maximilian Schlund

Software reuse may result in software bloat when significant portions of application dependencies are effectively unused. Several tools exist to remove unused (byte)code from an application or its dependencies, thus producing smaller…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Serena Elisa Ponta , Wolfram Fischer , Henrik Plate , Antonino Sabetta

AI agents that interact with the real world through tool calls pose fundamental safety challenges: agents might leak private information, cause unintended side effects, or be manipulated through prompt injection. To address these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Martin Odersky , Yaoyu Zhao , Yichen Xu , Oliver Bračevac , Cao Nguyen Pham

The increasingly sophisticated environment in which attackers operate makes software security an even greater challenge in open-source projects, where malicious packages are prevalent. Static analysis tools, such as Malcontent, are highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Duc-Ly Vu , Thanh-Cong Nguyen , Minh-Khanh Vu , Ngoc-Thanh Nguyen , Kim-Anh Do Thi

Active Feature Acquisition is an instance-wise, sequential decision making problem. The aim is to dynamically select which feature to measure based on current observations, independently for each test instance. Common approaches either use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Alexander Norcliffe , Changhee Lee , Fergus Imrie , Mihaela van der Schaar , Pietro Lio

Suboptimal code is prevalent in software systems. Developers often write low-quality code due to factors like technical knowledge gaps, insufficient experience, time pressure, management decisions, or personal factors. Once integrated, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 In-on Wiratsin , Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul , Matheus Paixao , Denis De Sousa , Pongpop Lapvikai , Peter Haddawy

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) arises in practice when labeled data are scarce or expensive to obtain, while large quantities of unlabeled data are readily available. With the growing adoption of machine learning techniques, it has become…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Jiawei Shan , Zhifeng Chen , Yiming Dong , Yazhen Wang , Jiwei Zhao

Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) is a critical component in monitoring complex systems, yet modern deep learning-based detectors are often highly sensitive to localized input corruptions and structured noise. We propose ARTA…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Hadi Hojjati , Narges Armanfard

The demand for automated security analysis techniques, such as static analysis based security testing (SAST) tools continues to increase. To develop SASTs that are effectively leveraged by developers for finding vulnerabilities, researchers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Amit Seal Ami , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk , Adwait Nadkarni

In this paper, we describe and present the first dataset of source code plagiarism specifically aimed at contest plagiarism. The dataset contains 251 pairs of plagiarized solutions of competitive programming tasks in Java, as well as 660…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Evgeniy Slobodkin , Alexander Sadovnikov