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The binary similarity problem consists in determining if two functions are similar by only considering their compiled form. Advanced techniques for binary similarity recently gained momentum as they can be applied in several fields, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Luca Massarelli , Giuseppe Antonio Di Luna , Fabio Petroni , Leonardo Querzoni , Roberto Baldoni

As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into software development workflows, they also become prime targets for adversarial attacks. Among these, backdoor attacks are a significant threat, allowing attackers to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Quoc Hung Le , Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Bowen Xu

Source code vulnerability detection aims to identify inherent vulnerabilities to safeguard software systems from potential attacks. Many prior studies overlook diverse vulnerability characteristics, simplifying the problem into a binary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Shangqing Liu , Wei Ma , Jian Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Ruitao Feng , Yang Liu

Binary Function Similarity Detection (BFSD) is a foundational technique in software security, underpinning a wide range of applications including vulnerability detection, malware analysis. Recent advances in AI-based BFSD tools have led to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Jingyi Shi , Yufeng Chen , Yang Xiao , Yuekang Li , Zhengzi Xu , Sihao Qiu , Chi Zhang , Keyu Qi , Yeting Li , Xingchu Chen , Yanyan Zou , Yang Liu , Wei Huo

Binary code clone analysis is an important technique which has a wide range of applications in software engineering (e.g., plagiarism detection, bug detection). The main challenge of the topic lies in the semantics-equivalent code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Yikun Hu , Yuanyuan Zhang , Juanru Li , Hui Wang , Bodong Li , Dawu Gu

Efficient text embedding is crucial for large-scale natural language processing (NLP) applications, where storage and computational efficiency are key concerns. In this paper, we explore how using binary representations (barcodes) instead…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Soumen Sinha , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli

Recently, speculative decoding (SD) has emerged as a promising technique to accelerate LLM inference by employing a small draft model to propose draft tokens in advance, and validating them in parallel with the large target model. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuhao Shen , Junyi Shen , Quan Kong , Tianyu Liu , Yao Lu , Cong Wang

A wide range of symbolic analysis and optimization problems can be formalized using polyhedra. Sub-classes of polyhedra, also known as sub-polyhedral domains, are sought for their lower space and time complexity. We introduce the Strided…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Arjun Pitchanathan , Albert Cohen , Oleksandr Zinenko , Tobias Grosser

Tackling binary program analysis problems has traditionally implied manually defining rules and heuristics, a tedious and time-consuming task for human analysts. In order to improve automation and scalability, we propose an alternative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Shushan Arakelyan , Sima Arasteh , Christophe Hauser , Erik Kline , Aram Galstyan

Since the advent of Spectre attacks, researchers and practitioners have developed a range of hardware and software measures to counter transient execution attacks. A prime example of such mitigation is speculative load hardening in LLVM,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Tiziano Marinaro , Pablo Buiras , Andreas Lindner , Roberto Guanciale , Hamed Nemati

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where an attacker manipulates a small portion of the training data to implant hidden backdoors into the model. The compromised model behaves normally on clean samples but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Ting Qiao , Yingjia Wang , Xing Liu , Sixing Wu , Jianbin Li , Yiming Li

While third-party libraries are extensively reused to enhance productivity during software development, they can also introduce potential security risks such as vulnerability propagation. Software composition analysis, proposed to identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ling Jiang , Junwen An , Huihui Huang , Qiyi Tang , Sen Nie , Shi Wu , Yuqun Zhang

Speculative Decoding (SD) has emerged as a critical technique for accelerating Large Language Model (LLM) inference. Unlike deterministic system optimizations, SD performance is inherently data-dependent, meaning that diverse and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Talor Abramovich , Maor Ashkenazi , Izzy Putterman , Benjamin Chislett , Tiyasa Mitra , Bita Darvish Rouhani , Ran Zilberstein , Yonatan Geifman

Software vulnerabilities can result in catastrophic cyberattacks that increasingly threaten business operations. Consequently, ensuring the safety of software systems has become a paramount concern for both private and public sectors.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Boyu Zhang , Triet H. M. Le , M. Ali Babar

This paper introduces {\Delta}Breakpad. It extends the Breakpad crash reporting system to handle software diversity effectively and efficiently by replicating and patching the debug information of diversified software versions. Simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Bert Abrath , Bart Coppens , Mohit Mishra , Jens Van den Broeck , Bjorn De Sutter

Context: Software vulnerabilities pose a significant threat to modern software systems, as evidenced by the growing number of reported vulnerabilities and cyberattacks. These escalating trends underscore the urgent need for effective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Siyu Chen , Jiongyi Yang , Xiang Chen , Menglin Zheng , Minnan Wei , Xiaolin Ju

Graph representation learning has emerged as a cornerstone for tasks like node classification and link prediction, yet prevailing self-supervised learning (SSL) methods face challenges such as computational inefficiency, reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Srinitish Srinivasan , Omkumar CU

Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as powerful tools for detecting software vulnerabilities, where task-specific fine-tuning is typically employed to provide vulnerability-specific knowledge to the LLMs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ruijun Feng , Hammond Pearce , Pietro Liguori , Yulei Sui

Ransomware and other forms of malware cause significant financial and operational damage to organizations by exploiting long-standing and often difficult-to-detect software vulnerabilities. To detect vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Gary A. McCully , John D. Hastings , Shengjie Xu , Adam Fortier

Binary code analysis has immense importance in the research domain of software security. Today, software is very often compiled for various Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs). As a result, cross-architecture binary code analysis has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Iftakhar Ahmad , Lannan Luo