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Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, many of them with substantial safety and security concerns. This paper introduces DeepCheck, a new approach for validating DNNs based on core ideas from program…

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Debugging is a crucial skill in programming education and software development, yet it is often overlooked in CS curricula. To address this, we introduce an AI-powered debugging assistant integrated into an IDE. It offers real-time support…

Automated debugging, long pursued in a variety of fields from software engineering to cybersecurity, requires a framework that offers the building blocks for a programmable debugging workflow. However, existing debuggers are primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Gabriele Digregorio , Roberto Alessandro Bertolini , Francesco Panebianco , Mario Polino

In this position paper, we present a prototype of a visualizer for functional programs. Such programs, whose evaluation model is the reduction of an expression to a value through repeated application of rewriting rules, and which tend to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-04 John Whitington , Tom Ridge

This paper presents a system combining symbolic execution (KLEE) with a 4-agent multi-LLM architecture for detecting memory vulnerabilities in Rust unsafe code. A central challenge we address is the incomplete-code problem: CVE database…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zeyad Abdelrazek , Young Lee

Dynamically typed programming languages are popular in education and the software industry. While presenting a low barrier to entry, they suffer from run-time type errors and longer-term problems in code quality and maintainability.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Shuai Fu , Tim Dwyer , Peter J. Stuckey , Jackson Wain , Jesse Linossier

Software comprehension can be extremely time-consuming due to the ever-growing size of codebases. Consequently, there is an increasing need to accelerate the code comprehension process to facilitate maintenance and reduce associated costs.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Krzysztof Borowski , Bartosz Baliś , Tomasz Orzechowski

Representing source code in a generic input format is crucial to automate software engineering tasks, e.g., applying machine learning algorithms to extract information. Visualizing code representations can further enable human experts to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Yuejun Guo , Seifeddine Bettaieb , Qiang Hu , Yves Le Traon , Qiang Tang

Although many tools have been presented in the research literature of software visualization, there is little evidence of their adoption. To choose a suitable visualization tool, practitioners need to analyze various characteristics of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Leonel Merino , Ekaterina Kozlova , Oscar Nierstrasz , Daniel Weiskopf

Dynamic Symbolic Execution (DSE) is a key technique in program analysis, widely used in software testing, vulnerability discovery, and formal verification. In distributed AI systems, DSE plays a crucial role in identifying hard-to-detect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ruoxi Wang , Kun Li , Minghui Xu , Yue Zhang , Kaidi Xu , Chunchi Liu , Yinhao Xiao , Xiuzhen Cheng

Motivation: The scalable identification of bioactive compounds is essential for contemporary drug discovery. This process faces a key trade-off: structural screening offers scalability but lacks biological context, whereas high-content…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-17 Xiaoqing Lian , Pengsen Ma , Tengfeng Ma , Zhonghao Ren , Xibao Cai , Zhixiang Cheng , Bosheng Song , He Wang , Xiang Pan , Yangyang Chen , Sisi Yuan , Chen Lin

Recently, a diverse set of decoding and reranking procedures have been shown effective for LLM-based code generation. However, a comprehensive framework that links and experimentally compares these methods is missing. We address this by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Haau-Sing Li , Patrick Fernandes , Iryna Gurevych , André F. T. Martins

Training large language models (LLMs) on Python execution traces grounds them in code execution and enables the line-by-line execution prediction of whole Python programs, effectively turning them into neural interpreters (FAIR CodeGen Team…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Maximilian Beck , Jonas Gehring , Jannik Kossen , Gabriel Synnaeve

Scientific software is, by its very nature, complex. It is mathematical and highly optimized which makes it prone to subtle bugs not as easily detected by traditional testing. We outline how symbolic execution can be used to write tests…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Alexander C. Wilton

The Gisela framework for declarative programming was developed with the specific aim of providing a tool that would be useful for knowledge representation and reasoning within real-world applications. To achieve this, a complete integration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Goran Falkman , Olof Torgersson

We investigate sketch-like pen input as an alternative way to support execution control in interactive debugging. In our interface, programmers draw lightweight marks to set breakpoints, use symbolic strokes to control execution, and extend…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Helen Weixu Chen , Daniel Vogel

The computer programs most users interact with daily are driven by a graphical user interface (GUI). However, many scientific applications are used with a command line interface (CLI) for the ease of development and increased flexibility…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2008-06-03 N. C. Manoukis , E. C. Anderson

Neurosymbolic learning enables the integration of symbolic reasoning with deep learning but faces significant challenges in scaling to complex symbolic programs, large datasets, or both. We introduce DOLPHIN, a framework that tackles these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Aaditya Naik , Jason Liu , Claire Wang , Amish Sethi , Saikat Dutta , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

Recently, interest has been emerging in the application of symbolic techniques to the specification and analysis of cryptosystems. These techniques, when accompanied by suitable proofs of soundness/completeness, can be used both to identify…

This paper explores the use of relational symbolic execution to counter timing side channels in WebAssembly programs. We design and implement Vivienne, an open-source tool to automatically analyze WebAssembly cryptographic libraries for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Rodothea Myrsini Tsoupidi , Musard Balliu , Benoit Baudry