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We propose a security verification framework for cryptographic protocols using machine learning. In recent years, as cryptographic protocols have become more complex, research on automatic verification techniques has been focused on. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Kentaro Ohno , Misato Nakabayashi

Evaluation of automatic video summaries is a challenging problem. In the past years, some evaluation methods are presented that utilize only a single feature like color feature to detect similarity between automatic video summaries and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Karim M. Mahmoud

Automated code summarization is a long-standing goal for code comprehension. This task automatically generates documentation using a given method. Deep Learning (DL)-based approaches have been proven beneficial for various software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Antonio Vitale , Antonio Mastropaolo , Rocco Oliveto , Massimiliano Di Penta , Simone Scalabrino

Unit tests often lack concise summaries that convey test intent, especially in auto-generated or poorly documented codebases. Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising solution, but their effectiveness depends heavily on how they are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Anamul Haque Mollah , Ahmed Aljohani , Hyunsook Do

Software documentation is essential for program comprehension, developer onboarding, code review, and long-term maintenance. Yet producing quality documentation manually is time-consuming and frequently yields incomplete or inconsistent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Afia Farjana , Zaiyu Cheng , Antonio Mastropaolo

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce code with subtle implementation-level bugs despite strong benchmark performance. These errors are hard for LLMs to spot and can have large behavioural effects; yet when asked to summarise code,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lukas Twist

We propose a new cryptographic task, which we call verifiable quantum secure modulo summation. Secure modulo summation is a calculation of modulo summation $Y_1+\ldots+ Y_m$ when $m$ players have their individual variables $Y_1,\ldots, Y_m$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi , Takeshi Koshiba

Source code summarization is the task of creating short, natural language descriptions of source code. Code summarization is the backbone of much software documentation such as JavaDocs, in which very brief comments such as "adds the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Sakib Haque , Aakash Bansal , Lingfei Wu , Collin McMillan

Memory spatial errors, i.e., buffer overflow vulnerabilities, have been a well-known issue in computer security for a long time and remain one of the root causes of exploitable vulnerabilities. Most of the existing mitigation tools adopt a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Dongwei Chen , Daliang Xu , Dong Tong , Kang Sun , Xuetao Guan , Chun Yang , Xu Cheng

SAFE is a clean-slate design for a highly secure computer system, with pervasive mechanisms for tracking and limiting information flows. At the lowest level, the SAFE hardware supports fine-grained programmable tags, with efficient and…

Security-sensitive applications that execute untrusted code often check the code's integrity by comparing its syntax to a known good value or sandbox the code to contain its effects. System M is a new program logic for reasoning about such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Limin Jia , Shayak Sen , Deepak Garg , Anupam Datta

Writing accurate numerical software is hard because of many sources of unavoidable uncertainties, including finite numerical precision of implementations. We present a programming model where the user writes a program in a real-valued…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Eva Darulova , Viktor Kuncak

Assessing the validity of user simulators when used for the evaluation of information retrieval systems remains an open question, constraining their effective use and the reliability of simulation-based results. To address this issue, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Andreas Konstantin Kruff , Nolwenn Bernard , Philipp Schaer

Android users are increasingly concerned with the privacy of their data and security of their devices. To improve the security awareness of users, recent automatic techniques produce security-centric descriptions by performing program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Tingmin Wu , Lihong Tang , Rongjunchen Zhang , Sheng Wen , Cecile Paris , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Yang Xiang

We introduce a tool that supports continuous flow analysis in order to detect security problems as the user edits. The tool uses abstract interpretation over both byte codes and abstract syntax trees to trace the flow of both type…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Steven P. Reiss

We survey the state-of-the-art on model-based formalisms for safety and security joint analysis, where safety refers to the absence of unintended failures, and security to absence of malicious attacks. We conduct a thorough literature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Stefano M. Nicoletti , Marijn Peppelman , Christina Kolb , Mariëlle Stoelinga

Graph-based assessment formalisms have proven to be useful in the safety, dependability, and security communities to help stakeholders manage risk and maintain appropriate documentation throughout the system lifecycle. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Nils Ole Tippenhauer , William G. Temple , An Hoa Vu , Binbin Chen , David M. Nicol , Zbigniew Kalbarczyk , William H. Sanders

We propose a symbolic execution method for analyzing the safety of software under fault attacks both accurately and efficiently. Fault attacks leverage physically injected hardware faults in an embedded system to break the safety of a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yuzhou Fang , Chenyu Zhou , Jingbo Wang , Chao Wang

Symmetry reduction is a well-known approach for alleviating the state explosion problem in model checking. Automatically identifying symmetries in concurrent systems, however, is computationally expensive. We propose a symbolic framework…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Anthony W. Lin , Truong Khanh Nguyen , Philipp Rümmer , Jun Sun

Symbolic execution is a program analysis technique commonly utilized to determine whether programs violate properties and, in case violations are found, to generate inputs that can trigger them. Used in the context of security properties…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Ignacio Tiraboschi , Tamara Rezk , Xavier Rival