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Code obfuscation is the conversion of original source code into a functionally equivalent but less readable form, aiming to prevent reverse engineering and intellectual property theft. This is a challenging task since it is crucial to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Lorenzo De Tomasi , Claudio Di Sipio , Antinisca Di Marco , Phuong T. Nguyen

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into software systems for diverse purposes, due to their versatility, flexibility, and ability to simulate human reasoning to some extent. However, poor integration of LLM inference…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zacharie Chenail-Larcher , Brahim Mahmoudi , Naouel Moha , Quentin Stiévenart , Florent Avellaneda

Tasks such as solving arithmetic equations, evaluating truth tables, and completing syllogisms are handled well by large language models (LLMs) in their standard form, but they often fail when the same problems are posed in logically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Abhilekh Borah , Shubhra Ghosh , Kedar Joshi , Aditya Kumar Guru , Kripabandhu Ghosh

Large language models (LLMs) have shown success in many natural language processing tasks. Despite rigorous safety alignment processes, supposedly safety-aligned LLMs like Llama 2 and Claude 2 are still susceptible to jailbreaks, leading to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Ziyang Zhang , Qizhen Zhang , Jakob Foerster

We investigate the robustness of Large Language Models (LLMs) to structural interventions by deleting and swapping adjacent layers during inference. Surprisingly, models retain 72-95% of their original top-1 prediction accuracy without any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Vedang Lad , Jin Hwa Lee , Wes Gurnee , Max Tegmark

Context: Since it is well-established that developers spend a substantial portion of their time understanding source code, the ability to automatically identify algorithms within source code presents a valuable opportunity. This capability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Denis Neumüller , Sebastian Boll , David Schüler , Matthias Tichy

Anonymization is widely treated as a practical safeguard because re-identifying anonymous records was historically costly, requiring domain expertise, tailored algorithms, and manual corroboration. We study a growing privacy risk that may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Myeongseob Ko , Jihyun Jeong , Sumiran Singh Thakur , Gyuhak Kim , Ruoxi Jia

Large language models (LLMs) can autonomously conduct multi-stage cyber attacks, but the consistency of their offensive behavior under repeated trials remains unstudied. This work presents the first large-scale empirical measurement of LLM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Galip Tolga Erdem

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been reported to "leak" Personally Identifiable Information (PII), with successful PII reconstruction often interpreted as evidence of memorization. We propose a principled revision of memorization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiaoyu Luo , Yiyi Chen , Qiongxiu Li , Johannes Bjerva

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer transformative solutions across many domains, but healthcare integration is hindered by strict data privacy constraints. Clinical narratives are dense with ambiguous acronyms, misinterpretation these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Manjushree B. Aithal , Ph. D. , Alexander Kotz , James Mitchell , Ph. D

We investigate the radioactivity of text generated by large language models (LLM), i.e. whether it is possible to detect that such synthetic input was used to train a subsequent LLM. Current methods like membership inference or active IP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Tom Sander , Pierre Fernandez , Alain Durmus , Matthijs Douze , Teddy Furon

Deep image classification models trained on vast amounts of web-scraped data are susceptible to data poisoning - a mechanism for backdooring models. A small number of poisoned samples seen during training can severely undermine a model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Nils Lukas , Florian Kerschbaum

Most commonly used language models (LMs) are instruction-tuned and aligned using a combination of fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, causing them to refuse users requests deemed harmful by the model. However, jailbreak prompts can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Aryan Shrivastava , Ari Holtzman

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly used to migrate legacy code to modern stacks. We ask a deceptively simple question: when an LLM modernizes legacy code, can the same model be relied upon to recognize when its own output…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Gokul Chandra Purnachandra Reddy , Aditya Lolla , Harsha Sanku

The identifiability analysis of linear Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) systems is a necessary prerequisite for making reliable causal inferences about these systems. While identifiability has been well studied in scenarios where the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-31 Yuanyuan Wang , Biwei Huang , Wei Huang , Xi Geng , Mingming Gong

Malware authors often employ code obfuscations to make their malware harder to detect. Existing tools for generating obfuscated code often require access to the original source code (e.g., C++ or Java), and adding new obfuscations is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Seyedreza Mohseni , Seyedali Mohammadi , Deepa Tilwani , Yash Saxena , Gerald Ketu Ndawula , Sriram Vema , Edward Raff , Manas Gaur

Generative images have proliferated on Web platforms in social media and online copyright distribution scenarios, and semantic watermarking has increasingly been integrated into diffusion models to support reliable provenance tracking and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zheng Gao , Xiaoyu Li , Zhicheng Bao , Xiaoyan Feng , Jiaojiao Jiang

We show that continual pretraining on plausible misinformation can overwrite specific factual knowledge in large language models without degrading overall performance. Unlike prior poisoning work under static pretraining, we study repeated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Svetlana Churina , Niranjan Chebrolu , Kokil Jaidka

Ensuring the reliability of machine learning-based intrusion detection systems remains a critical challenge in Internet of Things (IoT) environments, particularly as data poisoning attacks increasingly threaten the integrity of model…

Semi-supervised machine learning models learn from a (small) set of labeled training examples, and a (large) set of unlabeled training examples. State-of-the-art models can reach within a few percentage points of fully-supervised training,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Nicholas Carlini