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Automated red teaming frameworks for Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly sophisticated, yet many still formulate attack optimization primarily in the prompt space. In other words, these methods mainly search for better…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yunhao Chen , Xin Wang , Juncheng Li , Yixu Wang , Jie Li , Yan Teng , Yingchun Wang , Xingjun Ma

Large Language Model (LLM) providers expose fine-tuning APIs that let end users fine-tune their frontier LLMs. Unfortunately, it has been shown that an adversary with fine-tuning access to an LLM can bypass safeguards. Particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sarah Egler , John Schulman , Nicholas Carlini

Compilers are critical to modern computing, yet fixing compiler bugs is difficult. While recent large language model (LLM) advancements enable automated bug repair, compiler bugs pose unique challenges due to their complexity, deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yingwei Zheng , Cong Li , Shaohua Li , Yuqun Zhang , Zhendong Su

Recent advancements in event-based recognition have demonstrated significant promise, yet most existing approaches rely on extensive training, limiting their adaptability for efficient processing of event-driven visual content. Meanwhile,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zongyou Yu , Qiang Qu , Qian Zhang , Nan Zhang , Xiaoming Chen

Software debugging is a time-consuming endeavor involving a series of steps, such as fault localization and patch generation, each requiring thorough analysis and a deep understanding of the underlying logic. While large language models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Cheryl Lee , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Longji Yang , Jen-tse Huang , Zhouruixin Zhu , Lingming Zhang , Michael R. Lyu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become central to automated code generation, yet existing approaches operate within a single-LLM paradigm: one model is selected and applied throughout the entire generation process. We observe that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Huashan Chen , Zhenyu Qi , Haotang Li , Hong Chen , Jinfu Chen , Kebin Peng , In Kee Kim , Kyu Hyung Lee , Sen He , Weiyi Shang

The increasing integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into society necessitates robust defenses against vulnerabilities from jailbreaking and adversarial prompts. This project proposes a recursive framework for enhancing the resistance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Bryan Li , Sounak Bagchi , Zizhan Wang

Human motion generation driven by deep generative models has enabled compelling applications, but the ability of text-to-motion (T2M) models to produce realistic motions from text prompts raises security concerns if exploited maliciously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Honglei Miao , Fan Ma , Ruijie Quan , Kun Zhan , Yi Yang

Recent secure code generation methods, using vulnerability-aware fine-tuning, prefix-tuning, and prompt optimization, claim to prevent LLMs from producing insecure code. However, their robustness under adversarial conditions remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Melissa Tessa , Iyiola E. Olatunji , Aicha War , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Detecting tricky bugs in plausible programs, those that pass existing test suites yet still contain bugs, remains a significant challenge in software testing. To address this problem, we propose TrickCatcher, an LLM-powered approach to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kaibo Liu , Zhenpeng Chen , Yiyang Liu , Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Yudong Han , Yun Ma , Yihong Dong , Ge Li , Gang Huang

Recently, researchers have proposed many multi-agent frameworks for function-level code generation, which aim to improve software development productivity by automatically generating function-level source code based on task descriptions. A…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yueheng Zhu , Chao Liu , Xuan He , Xiaoxue Ren , Zhongxin Liu , Ruwei Pan , Hongyu Zhang

Due to the proliferation of malware, defenders are increasingly turning to automation and machine learning as part of the malware detection tool-chain. However, machine learning models are susceptible to adversarial attacks, requiring the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Maria Rigaki , Sebastian Garcia

Long-form text generation remains a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs), particularly in maintaining coherence, ensuring logical consistency, and preserving text quality as sequence length increases. To address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yuhao Wu , Yushi Bai , Zhiqiang Hu , Juanzi Li , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed software development, enabling AI-powered applications known as LLM-based agents that promise to automate tasks across diverse apps and workflows. Yet, the security implications of deploying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Chenghao Du , Quanfeng Huang , Tingxuan Tang , Zihao Wang , Adwait Nadkarni , Yue Xiao

This paper describes Meta's ACH system for mutation-guided LLM-based test generation. ACH generates relatively few mutants (aka simulated faults), compared to traditional mutation testing. Instead, it focuses on generating currently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Christopher Foster , Abhishek Gulati , Mark Harman , Inna Harper , Ke Mao , Jillian Ritchey , Hervé Robert , Shubho Sengupta

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated significant potential in time series forecasting, offering impressive capabilities in handling complex temporal data. However, their robustness and reliability in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Fuqiang Liu , Sicong Jiang , Luis Miranda-Moreno , Seongjin Choi , Lijun Sun

Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) enable complex problem-solving but introduce significant debugging challenges, characterized by long interaction traces, inter-agent dependencies, and delayed error manifestation.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiazheng Li , Emine Yilmaz , Bei Chen , Dieu-Thu Le

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tools are essential for identifying software vulnerabilities, but they often produce a high volume of false positives (FPs), imposing a substantial manual triage burden on developers. Recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yunpeng Xiong , Ting Zhang

Having a high quality software is essential in software engineering, which requires robust validation and verification processes during testing activities. Manual testing, while effective, can be time consuming and costly, leading to an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Betim Sherifi , Khaled Slhoub , Fitzroy Nembhard

Over the past decade, there has been extensive research aimed at enhancing the robustness of neural networks, yet this problem remains vastly unsolved. Here, one major impediment has been the overestimation of the robustness of new defense…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Leo Schwinn , David Dobre , Stephan Günnemann , Gauthier Gidel