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Large language models make it easy for students to delegate writing, analysis, and problem-solving to automated systems, bypassing the effortful engagement that produces lasting understanding. We introduce a practical framework that helps…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Philipp Haindl , Oliver Eigner , Peter Kieseberg

Recent advances in deep generative models have led to significant progress in video generation, yet the fidelity of AI-generated videos remains limited. Synthesized content often exhibits visual artifacts such as temporally inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Jiahao Lin , Weixuan Peng , Bojia Zi , Yifeng Gao , Xianbiao Qi , Xingjun Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Large Language Model (LLM) safety guardrail models have emerged as a primary defense mechanism against harmful content generation, yet their robustness against sophisticated adversarial attacks remains poorly characterized. This study…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Richard J. Young

Large language models (LLMs) are now widely used to draft and refactor code, but code that works is not necessarily secure. We evaluate secure code generation using the Instruct Prime, which eliminated compliance-required prompts and cue…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Arup Datta , Ahmed Aljohani , Hyunsook Do

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in automated software security, particularly in vulnerability detection. However, existing benchmarks primarily focus on isolated, single-vulnerability samples or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Chinmay Pushkar , Sanchit Kabra , Dhruv Kumar , Jagat Sesh Challa

Prompt engineering reduces reasoning mistakes in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, its effectiveness in mitigating vulnerabilities in LLM-generated code remains underexplored. To address this gap, we implemented a benchmark to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Marc Bruni , Fabio Gabrielli , Mohammad Ghafari , Martin Kropp

Learned classifiers deployed in agentic pipelines face a fundamental reliability problem: predictions are probabilistic inferences, not verified conclusions, and acting on them without grounding in observable evidence leads to compounding…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jugal Gajjar

As Large Language Models shift the programming toward human-guided ''vibe coding'', agentic coding tools increasingly rely on models to self-diagnose and repair their own subtle faults -- a capability central to autonomous software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Srijan Bansal , Jiao Fangkai , Yilun Zhou , Austin Xu , Shafiq Joty , Semih Yavuz

Large language models (LLMs) can detect software vulnerabilities, but how do they actually identify vulnerable code? We address this question using mechanistic interpretability; analyzing the internal computations of a neural network to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Syafiq Al Atiiq , Chun Zhou , Christian Gehrmann

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

Security issues in shipped code can lead to unforeseen device malfunction, system crashes or malicious exploitation by crackers, post-deployment. These vulnerabilities incur a cost of repair and foremost risk the credibility of the company.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Anshul Tanwar , Hariharan Manikandan , Krishna Sundaresan , Prasanna Ganesan , Sathish Kumar Chandrasekaran , Sriram Ravi

Improper parsing of attacker-controlled input is a leading source of software security vulnerabilities, especially when programmers transcribe informal format descriptions in RFCs into efficient parsing logic in low-level, memory unsafe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Sarah Fakhoury , Markus Kuppe , Shuvendu K. Lahiri , Tahina Ramananandro , Nikhil Swamy

As AI-generated images proliferate across digital platforms, reliable detection methods have become critical for combating misinformation and maintaining content authenticity. While numerous deepfake detection methods have been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Simiao Ren , Yuchen Zhou , Xingyu Shen , Kidus Zewde , Tommy Duong , George Huang , Hatsanai , Tiangratanakul , Tsang , Ng , En Wei , Jiayu Xue

This study evaluates the performance of ChatGPT variants, GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, both with and without prompt engineering, against solely student work and a mixed category containing both student and GPT-4 contributions in university-level…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Will Yeadon , Alex Peach , Craig P. Testrow

Large Language Models increasingly power critical infrastructure from healthcare to finance, yet their vulnerability to adversarial manipulation threatens system integrity and user safety. Despite growing deployment, no comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Taiwo Onitiju , Iman Vakilinia

Ensuring correctness is crucial for code generation. Formal verification offers a definitive assurance of correctness, but demands substantial human effort in proof construction and hence raises a pressing need for automation. The primary…

This study evaluates the security of web application code generated by Large Language Models, analyzing 2,500 GPT-4 generated PHP websites. These were deployed in Docker containers and tested for vulnerabilities using a hybrid approach of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Rebeka Tóth , Tamas Bisztray , László Erdodi

$ $Large Language Models (LLMs) are being increasingly utilized in various applications, with code generations being a notable example. While previous research has shown that LLMs have the capability to generate both secure and insecure…

The rise of AI agent frameworks has introduced agent skills, modular packages containing instructions and executable code that dynamically extend agent capabilities. While this architecture enables powerful customization, skills execute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yi Liu , Weizhe Wang , Ruitao Feng , Yao Zhang , Guangquan Xu , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li , Leo Zhang

We evaluate whether frontier LLMs are ready for cybersecurity through a dual-mode benchmark: white-box function-level vulnerability detection (VulnLLM-R, across C/Java/Python) and black-box web application security testing (five…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Vivek Dahiya , Sunny Nehra , Vipul Dholariya , Bhavik Shangari , Chandra Khatri
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