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Patching severe security flaws in complex software remains a major challenge. While automated tools like fuzzers efficiently discover bugs, fixing deep-rooted low-level faults (e.g., use-after-free and memory corruption) still requires…

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With the increasing complexity and rapid expansion of the scale of AI systems in cloud platforms, the log data generated during system operation is massive, unstructured, and semantically ambiguous, which brings great challenges to fault…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Cheng Ji , Huaiying Luo

Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) focuses on efficiently reaching specific program locations or triggering particular behaviors, making it essential for tasks like vulnerability detection and crash reproduction. However, existing methods often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Hanxiang Xu , Yanjie Zhao , Haoyu Wang

Graph algorithms, such as shortest path finding, play a crucial role in enabling essential applications and services like infrastructure planning and navigation, making their correctness important. However, thoroughly testing graph…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Wenqi Yan , Manuel Rigger , Anthony Wirth , Van-Thuan Pham

Most software that runs on computers undergoes processing by compilers. Since compilers constitute the fundamental infrastructure of software development, their correctness is paramount. Over the years, researchers have invested in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Haoyang Ma

Security vulnerabilities in Internet-of-Things devices, mobile platforms, and autonomous systems remain critical. Traditional mutation-based fuzzers -- while effectively explore code paths -- primarily perform byte- or bit-level edits…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Mengdi Lu , Steven Ding , Furkan Alaca , Philippe Charland

Large Language Model (LLM) based agents integrated into web browsers (often called agentic AI browsers) offer powerful automation of web tasks. However, they are vulnerable to indirect prompt injection attacks, where malicious instructions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Avihay Cohen

GPUs play an increasingly important role in modern software. However, the heterogeneous host-device execution model and expanding software stacks make GPU programs prone to memory-safety and concurrency bugs that evade static analysis.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Mohamed Tarek Ibn ziad , Christos Kozyrakis

Large language models (LLMs) have driven significant progress across a wide range of real-world applications. Realizing such models requires substantial system-level support. Deep learning (DL) frameworks provide this foundation by enabling…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yanzhou Mu , Rong Wang , Juan Zhai , Chunrong Fang , Xiang Chen , Jiacong Wu , An Guo , Jiawei Shen , Bingzhuo Li , Zhenyu Chen

The automated program repair field has attracted substantial interest over the years, but despite significant research efforts, creating a system that works well for complex semantic bugs such as security vulnerabilities has proven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Berkay Berabi , Alexey Gronskiy , Veselin Raychev , Gishor Sivanrupan , Victor Chibotaru , Martin Vechev

PHP, a dominant scripting language in web development, powers a vast range of websites, from personal blogs to major platforms. While existing research primarily focuses on PHP application-level security issues like code injection, memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuancheng Jiang , Chuqi Zhang , Bonan Ruan , Jiahao Liu , Manuel Rigger , Roland Yap , Zhenkai Liang

Programming errors that degrade the performance of systems are widespread, yet there is little tool support for analyzing these bugs. We present a method based on differential performance analysis---we find inputs for which the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Pavol Cerný , Ashutosh Trivedi

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming an integral part of most software systems. Previous work has shown that DNNs have bugs. Unfortunately, existing debugging techniques do not support localizing DNN bugs because of the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Mohammad Wardat , Wei Le , Hridesh Rajan

In the evolving landscape of integrated circuit (IC) design, the increasing complexity of modern processors and intellectual property (IP) cores has introduced new challenges in ensuring design correctness and security. The recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Venkat Nitin Patnala , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

Code translation aims to convert source code from one programming language (PL) to another. Given the promising abilities of large language models (LLMs) in code synthesis, researchers are exploring their potential to automate code…

Autoregressive (AR) large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of natural language tasks, yet their inherent sequential decoding limits inference efficiency. In this work, we propose Fast-dLLM v2,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Chengyue Wu , Hao Zhang , Shuchen Xue , Shizhe Diao , Yonggan Fu , Zhijian Liu , Pavlo Molchanov , Ping Luo , Song Han , Enze Xie

In recent years, the programming capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have garnered significant attention. Fuzz testing, a highly effective technique, plays a key role in enhancing software reliability and detecting vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hanxiang Xu , Wei Ma , Ting Zhou , Yanjie Zhao , Kai Chen , Qiang Hu , Yang Liu , Haoyu Wang

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

Fuzzing a library requires experts to understand the library usage well and craft high-quality fuzz drivers, which is tricky and tedious. Therefore, many techniques have been proposed to automatically generate fuzz drivers. However, they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yan Li , Wenzhang Yang , Yuekun Wang , Jian Gao , Shaohua Wang , Yinxing Xue , Lijun Zhang

Autonomous driving has become real; semi-autonomous driving vehicles in an affordable price range are already on the streets, and major automotive vendors are actively developing full self-driving systems to deploy them in this decade.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Seulbae Kim , Major Liu , Junghwan "John" Rhee , Yuseok Jeon , Yonghwi Kwon , Chung Hwan Kim