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The widespread application of large language models (LLMs) underscores the importance of deep learning (DL) technologies that rely on foundational DL libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow. Despite their robust features, these libraries…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhiyuan Li , Jingzheng Wu , Xiang Ling , Tianyue Luo , Zhiqing Rui , Yanjun Wu

One of the critical phases in software development is software testing. Testing helps with identifying potential bugs and reducing maintenance costs. The goal of automated test generation tools is to ease the development of tests by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Arghavan Moradi Dakhel , Amin Nikanjam , Vahid Majdinasab , Foutse Khomh , Michel C. Desmarais

Unit tests play a vital role in uncovering potential faults in software. While tools like EvoSuite focus on maximizing code coverage, recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shifted attention toward LLM-based test generation.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Guancheng Wang , Qinghua Xu , Lionel Briand , Kui Liu

Current auto-regressive (AR) LLMs, diffusion-based text/image generative models, and recent flow matching (FM) algorithms are capable of generating premium quality text/image samples. However, the inference or sample generation in these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Minyoung Kim

Fuzzing has become the de facto standard technique for finding software vulnerabilities. However, even state-of-the-art fuzzers are not very efficient at finding hard-to-trigger software bugs. Most popular fuzzers use evolutionary guidance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Dongdong She , Kexin Pei , Dave Epstein , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray , Suman Jana

As with any fuzzer, directing Generator-Based Fuzzers (GBF) to reach particular code targets can increase the fuzzer's effectiveness. In previous work, coverage-guided fuzzers used a mix of static analysis, taint analysis, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Soha Hussein , Stephen McCamant , Mike Whalen

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), natural language processing (NLP) has achieved remarkable progress. Nonetheless, significant challenges remain in handling texts with ambiguity, polysemy, or uncertainty. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ping Chen , Xiang Liu , Zhaoxiang Liu , Zezhou Chen , Xingpeng Zhang , Huan Hu , Zipeng Wang , Kai Wang , Shuming Shi , Shiguo Lian

Fuzzing, a widely-used technique for bug detection, has seen advancements through Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite their potential, LLMs face specific challenges in fuzzing. In this paper, we identified five major challenges of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Yu Jiang , Jie Liang , Fuchen Ma , Yuanliang Chen , Chijin Zhou , Yuheng Shen , Zhiyong Wu , Jingzhou Fu , Mingzhe Wang , ShanShan Li , Quan Zhang

Tool-augmented LLM agents increasingly rely on multi-step, multi-tool workflows to complete real tasks. This design expands the attack surface, because data produced by one tool can be persisted and later reused as input to another tool,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Jiangrong Wu , Zitong Yao , Yuhong Nan , Zibin Zheng

The inference of transformer-based large language models consists of two sequential stages: 1) a prefilling stage to compute the KV cache of prompts and generate the first token, and 2) a decoding stage to generate subsequent tokens. For…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Qichen Fu , Minsik Cho , Thomas Merth , Sachin Mehta , Mohammad Rastegari , Mahyar Najibi

Directed greybox fuzzing is a popular technique for targeted software testing that seeks to find inputs that reach a set of target sites in a program. Most existing directed greybox fuzzers do not provide any theoretical analysis of their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Abhishek Shah , Dongdong She , Samanway Sadhu , Krish Singal , Peter Coffman , Suman Jana

Coverage-guided fuzzing has proven effective for software testing, but targeting library code requires specialized fuzz harnesses that translate fuzzer-generated inputs into valid API invocations. Manual harness creation is time-consuming…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Nils Loose , Nico Winkel , Kristoffer Hempel , Felix Mächtle , Julian Hans , Thomas Eisenbarth

Fuzzing is effective for vulnerability discovery but struggles with complex targets such as compilers, interpreters, and database engines, which accept textual input that must satisfy intricate syntactic and semantic constraints. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiayi Lin , Liangcai Su , Junzhe Li , Chenxiong Qian

Robustness is a key concern for Rust library development because Rust promises no risks of undefined behaviors if developers use safe APIs only. Fuzzing is a practical approach for examining the robustness of programs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jianfeng Jiang , Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou

Fuzz testing (or fuzzing) is an effective technique used to find security vulnerabilities. It consists of feeding a software under test with malformed inputs, waiting for a weird system behaviour (often a crash of the system). Over the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Marcello Maugeri , Cristian Daniele , Giampaolo Bella , Erik Poll

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

We present Harvey, an industrial greybox fuzzer for smart contracts, which are programs managing accounts on a blockchain. Greybox fuzzing is a lightweight test-generation approach that effectively detects bugs and security vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

We propose a tool, called FuzzingDriver, to generate dictionary tokens for coverage-based greybox fuzzers (CGF) from the codebase of any target program. FuzzingDriver does not add any overhead to the fuzzing job as it is run beforehand. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Arash Ale Ebrahim , Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand , Oscar Nierstrasz , Mohammad Ghafari

Mutation-based fuzzing is effective for uncovering compiler bugs, but designing high-quality mutators for modern languages with complex constructs (e.g., templates, macros) remains challenging. Existing methods rely heavily on manual design…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Bo Wang , Pengyang Wang , Chong Chen , Ming Deng , Jieke Shi , Qi Sun , Chengran Yang , Youfang Lin , Zhou Yang , Junjie Chen , Jun Sun , David Lo

Greybox fuzzing is a scalable and practical approach for software testing. Most greybox fuzzing tools are coverage-guided as reaching high code coverage is more likely to find bugs. However, since most covered codes may not contain bugs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Pengfei Wang , Xu Zhou , Tai Yue , Peihong Lin , Yingying Liu , Kai Lu
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