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Revisiting Code Debloating with Ground Truth-based Evaluation
Muhammad Bilal, Moiz Ali, Mohit Kumar +4
Program debloating aims to remove unused code to reduce performance overhead, attack surfaces, and maintenance costs. Over time, debloating has evolved across multiple layers (cont…
Data Doping or True Intelligence? Evaluating the Transferability of Injected Knowledge in LLMs
Essa Jan, Moiz Ali, Muhammad Saram Hassan +2
As the knowledge of large language models (LLMs) becomes outdated over time, there is a growing need for efficient methods to update them, especially when injecting proprietary inf…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Racial and Gender Bias in New York Times and Fox News Images and Articles
Hazem Ibrahim, Nouar AlDahoul, Syed Mustafa Ali Abbasi +3
The manner in which different racial and gender groups are portrayed in news coverage plays a large role in shaping public opinion. As such, understanding how such groups are portr…
Multitask Mayhem: Unveiling and Mitigating Safety Gaps in LLMs Fine-tuning
Essa Jan, Nouar AlDahoul, Moiz Ali +3
Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to their adoption across a wide range of tasks, ranging from code generation to machine translation and sentiment anal…
WASEF: Web Acceleration Solutions Evaluation Framework
Moumena Chaqfeh, Rashid Tahir, Ayaz Rehman +10
The World Wide Web has become increasingly complex in recent years. This complexity severely affects users in the developing regions due to slow cellular data connectivity and usag…
Are Proactive Interventions for Reddit Communities Feasible?
Hussam Habib, Maaz Bin Musa, Fareed Zaffar +1
Reddit has found its communities playing a prominent role in originating and propagating problematic socio-political discourse. Reddit administrators have generally struggled to pr…
TrackerSift: Untangling Mixed Tracking and Functional Web Resources
Abdul Haddi Amjad, Danial Saleem, Fareed Zaffar +2
Trackers have recently started to mix tracking and functional resources to circumvent privacy-enhancing content blocking tools. Such mixed web resources put content blockers in a b…
To Block or Not to Block: Accelerating Mobile Web Pages On-The-Fly Through JavaScript Classification
Moumena Chaqfeh, Muhammad Haseeb, Waleed Hashmi +6
The increasing complexity of JavaScript in modern mobile web pages has become a critical performance bottleneck for low-end mobile phone users, especially in developing regions. In…
CanaryTrap: Detecting Data Misuse by Third-Party Apps on Online Social Networks
Shehroze Farooqi, Maaz Musa, Zubair Shafiq +1
Online social networks support a vibrant ecosystem of third-party apps that get access to personal information of a large number of users. Despite several recent high-profile incid…
Towards Characterizing COVID-19 Awareness on Twitter
Muhammad Saad, Muhammad Hassan, Fareed Zaffar
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly altered our lifestyles as we resort to minimize the spread through preventive measures such as social distancing and quarantin…
To Act or React: Investigating Proactive Strategies For Online Community Moderation
Hussam Habib, Maaz Bin Musa, Fareed Zaffar +1
Reddit administrators have generally struggled to prevent or contain such discourse for several reasons including: (1) the inability for a handful of human administrators to track…
Characterizing Key Stakeholders in an Online Black-Hat Marketplace
Shehroze Farooqi, Muhammad Ikram, Emiliano De Cristofaro +5
Over the past few years, many black-hat marketplaces have emerged that facilitate access to reputation manipulation services such as fake Facebook likes, fraudulent search engine o…