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most citedChallenging Machine Learning-based Clone Detectors via Semantic-preserving Code Transformations

46 citations · 153 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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20 papers

cs.CR2026

SpreadMark: Robust Image Watermarking via Spread-Spectrum Embedding

Wei Song, Yuxin Cao, Zhenchang Xing +4

Invisible image watermarks are increasingly used for deepfake detection and provenance tracking, where they must survive not only incidental distortions but also deliberate removal…

cs.CR2026

Watermark Forensics for Generative Models: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

Xiaoyu Li, Zheng Gao, Xiaoyan Feng +3

A watermark in a generative model's output is usually asked only whether a text is machine-made. The same mark can do more: attribute it to the user who produced it, extract a hidd…

cs.CR2026

TRACE: A Two-Channel Robust Attribution Watermark via Complementary Embeddings for LLM-Agent Trajectories

Zheng Gao, Xiaoyu Li, Xiaoyan Feng +5

LLM agents reach users through resellers, who may rebrand a developer's agent or substitute a cheaper model. When provenance is disputed, attribution rests on the trajectory log (t…

cs.CR2026

DeMark: A Query-Free Black-Box Attack on Deepfake Watermarking Defenses

Wei Song, Zhenchang Xing, Liming Zhu +2

The rapid proliferation of realistic deepfakes has raised urgent concerns over their misuse, motivating the use of defensive watermarks in synthetic images for reliable detection a…

cs.DB2024★ 42 cited

Automated Data Visualization from Natural Language via Large Language Models: An Exploratory Study

Yang Wu, Yao Wan, Hongyu Zhang +5

The Natural Language to Visualization (NL2Vis) task aims to transform natural-language descriptions into visual representations for a grounded table, enabling users to gain insight…

cs.SE2024★ 27 cited

Graph Neural Networks for Vulnerability Detection: A Counterfactual Explanation

Zhaoyang Chu, Yao Wan, Qian Li +5

Vulnerability detection is crucial for ensuring the security and reliability of software systems. Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a prominent code embedding…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Iterative Refinement of Project-Level Code Context for Precise Code Generation with Compiler Feedback

Zhangqian Bi, Yao Wan, Zheng Wang +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress in automated code generation. Yet, LLM-generated code may contain errors in API usage, class, data structure, or missing…

cs.CL2024

NL2Formula: Generating Spreadsheet Formulas from Natural Language Queries

Wei Zhao, Zhitao Hou, Siyuan Wu +6

Writing formulas on spreadsheets, such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, is a widespread practice among users performing data analysis. However, crafting formulas on spreadshee…

cs.SE2023★ 1 cited

Deep Learning for Code Intelligence: Survey, Benchmark and Toolkit

Yao Wan, Yang He, Zhangqian Bi +6

Code intelligence leverages machine learning techniques to extract knowledge from extensive code corpora, with the aim of developing intelligent tools to improve the quality and pr…

cs.LG2022

New Challenges in Reinforcement Learning: A Survey of Security and Privacy

Yunjiao Lei, Dayong Ye, Sheng Shen +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) is one of the most important branches of AI. Due to its capacity for self-adaption and decision-making in dynamic environments, reinforcement learning h…

cs.LG2022

A Tale of Two Cities: Data and Configuration Variances in Robust Deep Learning

Guanqin Zhang, Jiankun Sun, Feng Xu +4

Deep neural networks (DNNs), are widely used in many industries such as image recognition, supply chain, medical diagnosis, and autonomous driving. However, prior work has shown th…

cs.SE2022★ 16 cited

What Do They Capture? -- A Structural Analysis of Pre-Trained Language Models for Source Code

Yao Wan, Wei Zhao, Hongyu Zhang +3

Recently, many pre-trained language models for source code have been proposed to model the context of code and serve as a basis for downstream code intelligence tasks such as code…

cs.SE2022

Cross-Language Binary-Source Code Matching with Intermediate Representations

Yi Gui, Yao Wan, Hongyu Zhang +5

Binary-source code matching plays an important role in many security and software engineering related tasks such as malware detection, reverse engineering and vulnerability assessm…

cs.SE2021★ 46 cited

Challenging Machine Learning-based Clone Detectors via Semantic-preserving Code Transformations

Weiwei Zhang, Shengjian Guo, Hongyu Zhang +3

Software clone detection identifies similar code snippets. It has been an active research topic that attracts extensive attention over the last two decades. In recent years, machin…

cs.SE2021★ 1 cited

A Systematical Study on Application Performance Management Libraries for Apps

Yutian Tang, Haoyu Wang, Xian Zhan +6

Being able to automatically detect the performance issues in apps can significantly improve apps' quality as well as having a positive influence on user satisfaction. Application P…

cs.SE2020★ 1 cited

NaturalCC: A Toolkit to Naturalize the Source Code Corpus

Yao Wan, Yang He, Jian-Guo Zhang +5

We present NaturalCC, an efficient and extensible toolkit to bridge the gap between natural language and programming language, and facilitate the research on big code analysis. Usi…

cs.SE2020★ 18 cited

MUZZ: Thread-aware Grey-box Fuzzing for Effective Bug Hunting in Multithreaded Programs

Hongxu Chen, Shengjian Guo, Yinxing Xue +5

Grey-box fuzz testing has revealed thousands of vulnerabilities in real-world software owing to its lightweight instrumentation, fast coverage feedback, and dynamic adjusting strat…

cs.LG2020

Secure Metric Learning via Differential Pairwise Privacy

Jing Li, Yuangang Pan, Yulei Sui +1

Distance Metric Learning (DML) has drawn much attention over the last two decades. A number of previous works have shown that it performs well in measuring the similarities of indi…

cs.SE2019

Multi-Modal Attention Network Learning for Semantic Source Code Retrieval

Yao Wan, Jingdong Shu, Yulei Sui +4

Code retrieval techniques and tools have been playing a key role in facilitating software developers to retrieve existing code fragments from available open-source repositories giv…

cs.PL2017

Demand-Driven Pointer Analysis with Strong Updates via Value-Flow Refinement

Yulei Sui, Jingling Xue

We present a new demand-driven flow- and context-sensitive pointer analysis with strong updates for C programs, called SUPA, that enables computing points-to information via value-…