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Modern analyst agents must reason over complex, high token inputs, including dozens of retrieved documents, tool outputs, and time sensitive data. While prior work has produced tool calling benchmarks and examined factuality in knowledge…

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Equipped with various tools and knowledge, GPTs, one kind of customized AI agents based on OpenAI's large language models, have illustrated great potential in many fields, such as writing, research, and programming. Today, the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tong Wu , Weibin Wu , Zibin Zheng

Third-party skills extend LLM agents with powerful capabilities but often handle sensitive credentials in privileged environments, making leakage risks poorly understood. We present the first large-scale empirical study of this problem,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhihao Chen , Ying Zhang , Yi Liu , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li , Yanjun Zhang , Jianting Ning , Leo Yu Zhang , Lei Ma , Zhiqiang Li

Evaluating the correctness of code generated by AI is a challenging open problem. In this paper, we propose a fully automated method, named ACCA, to evaluate the correctness of AI-generated code for security purposes. The method uses…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Domenico Cotroneo , Alessio Foggia , Cristina Improta , Pietro Liguori , Roberto Natella

Current AI-assisted engineering workflows lack a built-in mechanism to maintain task-level verification and regulatory traceability at machine-speed delivery. Agile V addresses this gap by embedding independent verification and audit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Christopher Koch , Joshua Andreas Wellbrock

This is the study that presents an AI-Python-based chatbot that helps students to learn programming by demonstrating solutions to such problems as debugging errors, solving syntax problems or converting abstract theoretical concepts to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri , Md Mainul Islam

The growing use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT has raised urgent concerns about their impact on student learning, particularly the potential erosion of critical thinking and creativity. As students increasingly turn to these tools to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Muhammad Sajjad Akbar

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

Vericoding refers to the generation of formally verified code from rigorous specifications. Recent AI models show promise in vericoding, but a unified methodology for cross-paradigm evaluation is lacking. Existing benchmarks test only…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Haoyu Zhao , Ziran Yang , Jiawei Li , Deyuan He , Zenan Li , Chi Jin , Venugopal V. Veeravalli , Aarti Gupta , Sanjeev Arora

Vulnerability detection for C/C++ code increasingly relies on heavy representations such as code graphs and deep models, while many practical workflows still benefit from fast and reproducible ranking baselines for human triage. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Chun Yin Chiu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as code assistants, yet their behavior when explicitly asked to generate insecure code remains poorly understood. While prior research has focused on unintended vulnerabilities, this study…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Emir Bosnak , Sahand Moslemi , Mayasah Lami , Anil Koyuncu

The rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models and applications has led to an increasingly complex security landscape. Developers of AI projects must contend not only with traditional software supply chain issues but also with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 The Anh Nguyen , Triet Huynh Minh Le , M. Ali Babar

Each year, software vulnerabilities are discovered, which pose significant risks of exploitation and system compromise. We present a convolutional neural network model that can successfully identify bugs in C code. We trained our model…

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Modern software systems are increasingly developed within rapid continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, where ensuring security prior to release presents significant technical and organizational challenges. Traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Michael Wienczkowski

Software vulnerabilities represent one of the most pressing threats to computing systems. Identifying vulnerabilities in source code is crucial for protecting user privacy and reducing economic losses. Traditional static analysis tools rely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Zhonghao Jiang , Weifeng Sun , Xiaoyan Gu , Jiaxin Wu , Tao Wen , Haibo Hu , Meng Yan

Memory corruption vulnerabilities are still a severe threat for software systems. To thwart the exploitation of such vulnerabilities, many different kinds of defenses have been proposed in the past. Most prominently, Control-Flow Integrity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Patrick Wollgast , Robert Gawlik , Behrad Garmany , Benjamin Kollenda , Thorsten Holz

Deep learning has been shown to be a promising tool in detecting software vulnerabilities. In this work, we train neural networks with program slices extracted from the source code of C/C++ programs to detect software vulnerabilities. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhen Huang , Amy Aumpansub

Smart contracts, integral to blockchain ecosystems, enable decentralized applications to execute predefined operations without intermediaries. Their ability to enforce trustless interactions has made them a core component of platforms such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mesut Ozdag

Prior work has demonstrated that functionally correct yet vulnerable outputs arise systematically in threat-oriented settings, where adversarial or implicit channels are used to induce security failures in code agents and automated patching…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xiaolei Ren

Large language models (LLMs) have become indispensable for automated code generation, yet the quality and security of their outputs remain a critical concern. Existing studies predominantly concentrate on adversarial attacks or inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bin Wang , YiLu Zhong , MiDi Wan , WenJie Yu , YuanBing Ouyang , Yenan Huang , Hui Li