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most citedOn the Consistency of GNN Explanations for Malware Detection

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

Integrating Graphs, Large Language Models, and Agents: Reasoning and Retrieval

Hamed Jelodar, Samita Bai, Mohammad Meymani +3

Generative AI, particularly Large Language Models, increasingly integrates graph-based representations to enhance reasoning, retrieval, and structured decision-making. Despite rapi…

cs.CR2026

LLM4CodeRE: Generative AI for Code Decompilation Analysis and Reverse Engineering

Hamed Jelodar, Samita Bai, Tochukwu Emmanuel Nwankwo +4

Code decompilation analysis is a fundamental yet challenging task in malware reverse engineering, particularly due to the pervasive use of sophisticated obfuscation techniques. Alt…

cs.CR2026

Automated Malware Family Classification using Weighted Hierarchical Ensembles of Large Language Models

Samita Bai, Hamed Jelodar, Tochukwu Emmanuel Nwankwo +4

Malware family classification remains a challenging task in automated malware analysis, particularly in real-world settings characterized by obfuscation, packing, and rapidly evolv…

cs.CR2026

Routing-Aware Explanations for Mixture of Experts Graph Models in Malware Detection

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Griffin Higgins +1

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) offers flexible graph reasoning by combining multiple views of a graph through a learned router. We investigate routing-aware explanations for MoE graph mo…

cs.CR2026

Transparent Malware Detection With Granular Assembly Flow Explainability via Graph Neural Networks

Griffin Higgins, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Hossein Shokouhinejad +1

As malware continues to become increasingly sophisticated, threatening, and evasive, malware detection systems must keep pace and become equally intelligent, powerful, and transpar…

cs.SE2025

Asm2SrcEval: Evaluating Large Language Models for Assembly-to-Source Code Translation

Parisa Hamedi, Hamed Jelodar, Samita Bai +3

Assembly-to-source code translation is a critical task in reverse engineering, cybersecurity, and software maintenance, yet systematic benchmarks for evaluating large language mode…

cs.CR2025

A Research and Development Portfolio of GNN Centric Malware Detection, Explainability, and Dataset Curation

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Griffin Higgins, Roozbeh Razavi-Far +1

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become an effective tool for malware detection by capturing program execution through graph-structured representations. However, important challen…

cs.SE2025★ 1 cited

Can Small GenAI Language Models Rival Large Language Models in Understanding Application Behavior?

Mohammad Meymani, Hamed Jelodar, Parisa Hamedi +2

Generative AI (GenAI) models, particularly large language models (LLMs), have transformed multiple domains, including natural language processing, software analysis, and code under…

cs.IR2025

SBAN: A Framework & Multi-Dimensional Dataset for Large Language Model Pre-Training and Software Code Mining

Hamed Jelodar, Mohammad Meymani, Samita Bai +2

This paper introduces SBAN (Source code, Binary, Assembly, and Natural Language Description), a large-scale, multi-dimensional dataset designed to advance the pre-training and eval…

cs.DB2025

FlexiDataGen: An Adaptive LLM Framework for Dynamic Semantic Dataset Generation in Sensitive Domains

Hamed Jelodar, Samita Bai, Roozbeh Razavi-Far +1

Dataset availability and quality remain critical challenges in machine learning, especially in domains where data are scarce, expensive to acquire, or constrained by privacy regula…

cs.IR2025

XGen-Q: An Explainable Domain-Adaptive LLM Framework with Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Software Security

Hamed Jelodar, Mohammad Meymani, Roozbeh Razavi-Far +1

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in code understanding, but their use in cybersecurity, particularly for malware detection and analysis…

cs.CL2025

NLD-LLM: A systematic framework for evaluating small language transformer models on natural language description

Hamed Jelodar, Mohammad Meymani, Parisa Hamedi +4

Natural Language Description (NLD) is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) task that requires models to generate structured and meaningful outputs from natural language inputs. In t…

cs.CR2025

Explainable Attention-Guided Stacked Graph Neural Networks for Malware Detection

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Griffin Higgins +1

Malware detection in modern computing environments demands models that are not only accurate but also interpretable and robust to evasive techniques. Graph neural networks (GNNs) h…

cs.CR2025

Dual Explanations via Subgraph Matching for Malware Detection

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Griffin Higgins +1

Interpretable malware detection is crucial for understanding harmful behaviors and building trust in automated security systems. Traditional explainable methods for Graph Neural Ne…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

Large Language Model (LLM) for Software Security: Code Analysis, Malware Analysis, Reverse Engineering

Hamed Jelodar, Samita Bai, Parisa Hamedi +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools in cybersecurity, offering advanced capabilities in malware detection, generation, and real-time monitoring. Nu…

cs.CR2025★ 7 cited

On the Consistency of GNN Explanations for Malware Detection

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Griffin Higgins, Roozbeh Razavi-Far +2

Control Flow Graphs (CFGs) are critical for analyzing program execution and characterizing malware behavior. With the growing adoption of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), CFG-based re…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

Recent Advances in Malware Detection: Graph Learning and Explainability

Hossein Shokouhinejad, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Hesamodin Mohammadian +4

The rapid evolution of malware has necessitated the development of sophisticated detection methods that go beyond traditional signature-based approaches. Graph learning techniques…

cs.CR2024

Explainable Malware Detection through Integrated Graph Reduction and Learning Techniques

Hesamodin Mohammadian, Griffin Higgins, Samuel Ansong +2

Control Flow Graphs and Function Call Graphs have become pivotal in providing a detailed understanding of program execution and effectively characterizing the behavior of malware.…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Privacy-Preserving for Images in Satellite Communications: A Comprehensive Review of Chaos-Based Encryption

Farrukh Bin Rashid, Windhya Rankothge, Somayeh Sadeghi +2

In an era where global connectivity has become critical, satellite communication is essential for businesses, governments, and individuals. Widely used services with satellite comm…