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This paper describes an interactive tool that facilitates following define-use chains in large codes. The motivation for the work is to support relative debugging, where it is necessary to iteratively refine a set of asser-tions between…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aaron Searle , John Gough , David Abramson

Cogent is a restricted functional language designed to reduce the cost of developing verified systems code. Because of its sometimes-onerous restrictions, such as the lack of support for recursion and its strict uniqueness type system,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Louis Cheung , Liam O'Connor , Christine Rizkallah

Cogent is a restricted functional language designed to reduce the cost of developing verified systems code. Because of its sometimes-onerous restrictions, such as the lack of support for recursion and its strict uniqueness type system,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Louis Cheung , Liam O'Connor , Christine Rizkallah

Summary: denet is a lightweight process monitoring tool providing real-time resource profiling of running processes. It reports CPU, memory, disk I/O, network activity, and thread usage, including recursive child monitoring, with adaptive…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ben Carrillo , Izaskun Mallona

Noninterference is a popular semantic security condition because it offers strong end-to-end guarantees, it is inherently compositional, and it can be enforced using a simple security type system. Unfortunately, it is too restrictive for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ethan Cecchetti , Andrew C. Myers , Owen Arden

Fault attacks enable adversaries to manipulate the control-flow of security-critical applications. By inducing targeted faults into the CPU, the software's call graph can be escaped and the control-flow can be redirected to arbitrary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Pascal Nasahl , Salmin Sultana , Hans Liljestrand , Karanvir Grewal , Michael LeMay , David M. Durham , David Schrammel , Stefan Mangard

We propose an approach on model checking information flow for imperative language with procedures. We characterize our model with pushdown system, which has a stack of unbounded length that naturally models the execution of procedural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-15 Cong Sun , Liyong Tang , Zhong Chen

Binary-only fuzzing often struggles with achieving thorough code coverage and uncovering hidden vulnerabilities due to limited insight into a program's internal dataflows. Traditional grey-box fuzzers guide test case generation primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Kai Feng , Jeremy Singer , Angelos K Marnerides

Code deobfuscation is the task of recovering a readable version of a program while preserving its original behavior. In practice, this often requires days or even months of manual work with complex and expensive analysis tools. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Seyedreza Mohseni , Sarvesh Baskar , Edward Raff , Manas Gaur

Disentanglement is a highly desirable property of representation owing to its similarity to human understanding and reasoning. Many works achieve disentanglement upon information bottlenecks (IB). Despite their elegant mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Jiantao Wu , Lin Wang , Bo Yang , Fanqi Li , Chunxiuzi Liu , Jin Zhou

Robustness is a key concern for Rust library development because Rust promises no risks of undefined behaviors if developers use safe APIs only. Fuzzing is a practical approach for examining the robustness of programs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Jianfeng Jiang , Hui Xu , Yangfan Zhou

Advances in image tampering pose serious security threats, underscoring the need for effective image manipulation localization (IML). While supervised IML achieves strong performance, it depends on costly pixel-level annotations. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Rui Chen , Bin Liu , Changtao Miao , Xinghao Wang , Yi Li , Tao Gong , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Despite extensive safety-tuning, large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to jailbreak attacks via adversarially crafted instructions, reflecting a persistent trade-off between safety and task performance. In this work, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wei Jie Yeo , Ranjan Satapathy , Erik Cambria

Memory corruption errors in C/C++ programs remain the most common source of security vulnerabilities in today's systems. Control-flow hijacking attacks exploit memory corruption vulnerabilities to divert program execution away from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Nathan Burow , Scott A. Carr , Joseph Nash , Per Larsen , Michael Franz , Stefan Brunthaler , Mathias Payer

Refinement types enable lightweight verification of functional programs. Algorithms for statically inferring refinement types typically work by reduction to solving systems of constrained Horn clauses extracted from typing derivations. An…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Zvonimir Pavlinovic , Yusen Su , Thomas Wies

Rust is gaining popularity for its well-known memory safety guarantees and high performance, distinguishing it from C/C++ and JVM-based languages. Its compiler, rustc, enforces these guarantees through specialized mechanisms such as trait…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zixi Liu , Yang Feng , Yunbo Ni , Shaohua Li , Xizhe Yin , Qingkai Shi , Baowen Xu , Zhendong Su

Decompiling Rust binaries is challenging due to the language's rich type system, aggressive compiler optimizations, and widespread use of high-level abstractions. In this work, we conduct a benchmark-driven evaluation of decompilation…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Zixu Zhou

Language-based information flow control (IFC) enables reasoning about and enforcing security policies in decentralized applications. While information flow properties are relatively extensional and compositional, designing expressive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Silei Ren , Coşku Acay , Andrew C. Myers

Morphing is a long-standing problem in vision and computer graphics, requiring a time-dependent warping for feature alignment and a blending for smooth interpolation. Recently, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) have been explored as implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Arthur Bizzi , Matias Grynberg , Vitor Matias , Daniel Perazzo , João Paulo Lima , Luiz Velho , Nuno Gonçalves , João Pereira , Guilherme Schardong , Tiago Novello

Ensuring the reliability of the Rust compiler is of paramount importance, given increasing adoption of Rust for critical systems development, due to its emphasis on memory and thread safety. However, generating valid test programs for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hongyan Gao , Yibiao Yang , Maolin Sun , Jiangchang Wu , Yuming Zhou , Baowen Xu