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Automated detection of vulnerabilities in source code is an essential cybersecurity challenge, underpinning trust in digital systems and services. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising approach as they can learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 David Egea , Barproda Halder , Sanghamitra Dutta

Reverse engineering of binary executables is a critical problem in the computer security domain. On the one hand, malicious parties may recover interpretable source codes from the software products to gain commercial advantages. On the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Cheng Fu , Huili Chen , Haolan Liu , Xinyun Chen , Yuandong Tian , Farinaz Koushanfar , Jishen Zhao

The effectiveness of concolic testing deteriorates as the size of programs increases. A promising way out is to test programs modularly, e.g., on a per function or class basis. Alas, this idea hits a roadblock in modern programming…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Shu-Hung You , Robert Bruce Findler , Christos Dimoulas

Greybox fuzzing is one of the most popular methods for detecting software vulnerabilities, which conducts a biased random search within the program input space. To enhance its effectiveness in achieving deep coverage of program behaviors,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ruijie Meng , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury

Symbolic execution is an SMT-based software verification and testing technique. Symbolic execution requires tracking performed computations during software simulation to reason about branches in the software under test. The prevailing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Sören Tempel , Tobias Brandt , Christoph Lüth , Christian Dietrich , Rolf Drechsler

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI has revolutionized natural language applications across various domains. However, high-stakes decision-making tasks in fields such as medical, legal and finance require a level of…

Software testing is one of the most popular validation techniques in the software industry. Surprisingly, we can only find a few approaches to testing in the context of logic programming. In this paper, we introduce a systematic approach…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Fred Mesnard , Étienne Payet , Germán Vidal

As processor designs grow more complex, verification remains bottlenecked by slow software simulation and low-quality random test stimuli. Recent research has applied software fuzzers to hardware verification, but these rely on semantically…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Juncheng Huo , Yunfan Gao , Xinxin Liu , Sa Wang , Yungang Bao , Xitong Gao , Kan Shi

WebAssembly (Wasm), as a compact, fast, and isolation-guaranteed binary format, can be compiled from more than 40 high-level programming languages. However, vulnerabilities in Wasm binaries could lead to sensitive data leakage and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Ningyu He , Zhehao Zhao , Hanqin Guan , Jikai Wang , Shuo Peng , Ding Li , Haoyu Wang , Xiangqun Chen , Yao Guo

Zero-knowledge (ZK) proof systems have emerged as a promising solution for building security-sensitive applications. However, bugs in ZK applications are extremely difficult to detect and can allow a malicious party to silently exploit the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Junrui Liu , Ian Kretz , Hanzhi Liu , Bryan Tan , Jonathan Wang , Yi Sun , Luke Pearson , Anders Miltner , Işıl Dillig , Yu Feng

This paper describes a static verification framework for the message-passing fragment of the Go programming language. Our framework extracts models that over-approximate the message-passing behaviour of a program. These models, or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Nicolas Dilley , Julien Lange

Current static verification techniques support a wide range of programs. However, such techniques only support complete and detailed specifications, which places an undue burden on users. To solve this problem, prior work proposed gradual…

Art authentication of Francisco Goya's works presents complex computational challenges due to his heterogeneous stylistic evolution and extensive historical patterns of forgery. We introduce a novel multimodal machine learning framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hassan Ugail , Ismail Lujain Jaleel

Spectre attacks exploit speculative execution to leak sensitive information. In the last few years, a number of static side-channel detectors have been proposed to detect cache leakage in the presence of speculative execution. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Ali Sahraee

Symbolic Execution is a formal method that can be used to verify the behavior of computer programs and detect software vulnerabilities. Compared to other testing methods such as fuzzing, Symbolic Execution has the advantage of providing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Christopher Scherb , Luc Bryan Heitz , Hermann Grieder , Olivier Mattmann

Concolic testing is a popular dynamic validation technique that can be used for both model checking and automatic test case generation. We have recently introduced concolic testing in the context of logic programming. In contrast to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Fred Mesnard , Etienne Payet , German Vidal

As vulnerability research increasingly adopts generative AI, a critical reliance on opaque model outputs has emerged, creating a "trust gap" in security automation. We address this by introducing Zer0n, a framework that anchors the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Harshil Parmar , Pushti Vyas , Prayers Khristi , Priyank Panchal

Guided fuzzing has, in recent years, been able to uncover many new vulnerabilities in real-world software due to its fast input mutation strategies guided by path-coverage. However, most fuzzers are unable to achieve high coverage in deeper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Saahil Ognawala , Fabian Kilger , Alexander Pretschner

We introduce `Goxpyriment', a new open-source software framework for programming behavioral and cognitive experiments using the Go programming language. The library is designed to address some limitations of existing Python-based experiment…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Christophe Pallier , Julie Bonnaire , Marie-France Fourcade

Security protocols are essential building blocks of modern IT systems. Subtle flaws in their design or implementation may compromise the security of entire systems. It is, thus, important to prove the absence of such flaws through formal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Linard Arquint , Malte Schwerhoff , Vaibhav Mehta , Peter Müller