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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being studied for Software Vulnerability Detection (SVD) and Repair (SVR). Individual LLMs have demonstrated code understanding abilities, but they frequently struggle when identifying complex…

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Agentic methods have emerged as a powerful and autonomous paradigm that enhances reasoning, collaboration, and adaptive control, enabling systems to coordinate and independently solve complex tasks. We extend this paradigm to safety…

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Existing safety evaluation methods for large language models (LLMs) suffer from inherent limitations, including evaluator bias and detection failures arising from model homogeneity, which collectively undermine the robustness of risk…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiuyuan Chen , Jian Zhao , Yuchen Yuan , Tianle Zhang , Huilin Zhou , Zheng Zhu , Ping Hu , Linghe Kong , Chi Zhang , Weiran Huang , Xuelong Li

Driven by the advancements of Large Language Models (LLMs), LLM-powered agents are making significant improvements in software engineering tasks, yet struggle with complex, repository-level issue resolution. Existing agent-based methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Xu Yang , Jiayuan Zhou , Michael Pacheco , Wenhan Zhu , Pengfei He , Shaowei Wang , Kui Liu , Ruiqi Pan

Effective incident response (IR) is critical for mitigating cyber threats, yet security teams are overwhelmed by alert fatigue, high false-positive rates, and the vast volume of unstructured Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) documents. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Amine Tellache , Abdelaziz Amara Korba , Amdjed Mokhtari , Horea Moldovan , Yacine Ghamri-Doudane

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized software engineering (SE), showcasing remarkable proficiency in various coding tasks. Despite recent advancements that have enabled the creation of autonomous software agents utilizing LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Huy Nhat Phan , Tien N. Nguyen , Phong X. Nguyen , Nghi D. Q. Bui

Modern AI agents execute real-world side effects through tool calls such as file operations, shell commands, HTTP requests, and database queries. A single unsafe action, including accidental deletion, credential exposure, or data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Chenglin Yang

Software vulnerabilities pose serious risks to modern software ecosystems. While the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) is the authoritative source for cataloging these vulnerabilities, it often lacks explicit links to the corresponding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Huu Hung Nguyen , Anh Tuan Nguyen , Thanh Le-Cong , Yikun Li , Han Wei Ang , Yide Yin , Frank Liauw , Shar Lwin Khin , Ouh Eng Lieh , Ting Zhang , David Lo

Public EV charging infrastructure suffers from significant failure rates -- with field studies reporting up to 27.5% of DC fast chargers non-functional -- and multi-day mean time to resolution, imposing billions in annual economic burden.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Mohammed Cherifi

As vision-language models (VLMs) gain prominence, their multimodal interfaces also introduce new safety vulnerabilities, making the safety evaluation challenging and critical. Existing red-teaming efforts are either restricted to a narrow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zhaorun Chen , Xun Liu , Mintong Kang , Jiawei Zhang , Minzhou Pan , Shuang Yang , Bo Li

OpenClaw has rapidly established itself as a leading open-source autonomous agent runtime, offering powerful capabilities including tool integration, local file access, and shell command execution. However, these broad operational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Songyang Liu , Chaozhuo Li , Chenxu Wang , Jinyu Hou , Zejian Chen , Litian Zhang , Zheng Liu , Qiwei Ye , Yiming Hei , Xi Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang

Web applications remain the dominant attack surface in cybersecurity, where vulnerabilities such as SQL injection, XSS, and business logic flaws continue to cause significant data breaches. While penetration testing is effective for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tran Vy Khang , Nguyen Dang Nguyen Khang , Nghi Hoang Khoa , Do Thi Thu Hien , Van-Hau Pham , Phan The Duy

Software plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and therefore the quality and security of software systems have become increasingly important. However, vulnerabilities in software still pose a significant threat, as they can have serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Chaozheng Wang , Zongjie Li , Yun Peng , Shuzheng Gao , Sirong Chen , Shuai Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

Vulnerabilities in software security can remain undiscovered even after being exploited. Linking attacks to vulnerabilities helps experts identify and respond promptly to the incident. This paper introduces VULDAT, a classification tool…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Refat Othman , Bruno Rossi , Barbara Russo

Automated vulnerability detection is a fundamental task in software security, yet existing learning-based methods still struggle to capture the structural dependencies, domain-specific vulnerability knowledge, and complex program semantics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wenxin Tang , Xiang Zhang , Junliang Liu , Jingyu Xiao , Xi Xiao , Jinlong Yang , Yuehe Ma , Zhenyu Liu , Zhengheng Li , Zicheng Wang , Wang Luo , Qing Li , Lei Wang , Peng Xiangli

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the automation of software development tasks, including code synthesis, program repair, and test generation. More recently, researchers and industry…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Yinlin Deng , Soren Dunn , Lingming Zhang

Current learning-based Automated Vulnerability Repair (AVR) approaches, while promising, often fail to generalize effectively in real-world scenarios. Our diagnostic analysis reveals three fundamental weaknesses in state-of-the-art AVR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chengran Yang , Ting Zhang , Jinfeng Jiang , Xin Zhou , Haoye Tian , Mingzhe Du , Jieke Shi , Junkai Chen , Yikun Li , Eng Lieh Ouh , Lwin Khin Shar , David Lo

With the widespread application of Large Language Models (LLMs), their associated security issues have become increasingly prominent, severely constraining their trustworthy deployment in critical domains. This paper proposes a novel safety…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Qi Li , Jianjun Xu , Pingtao Wei , Jiu Li , Peiqiang Zhao , Jiwei Shi , Xuan Zhang , Yanhui Yang , Xiaodong Hui , Peng Xu , Wenqin Shao

With the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, developers increasingly rely on AI-assisted tools to support code generation. While LLMs can generate syntactically correct solutions for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yiping Jia , Zhen Ming Jiang , Shayan Noei , Ying Zou

Detecting vulnerability fix commits in open-source software is crucial for maintaining software security. To help OSS identify vulnerability fix commits, several automated approaches are developed. However, existing approaches like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xu Yang , Wenhan Zhu , Michael Pacheco , Jiayuan Zhou , Shaowei Wang , Xing Hu , Kui Liu