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most citedSymbol Preference Aware Generative Models for Recovering Variable Names from Stripped Binary

4 citations · 11 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.LG2026

Reward-Aligned Distillation

Yilan Chen, Zian Su, Manish Prajapat +4

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but remains computationally expensive and sample inefficient. On-policy…

cs.SE2025

Position: Intelligent Coding Systems Should Write Programs with Justifications

Xiangzhe Xu, Shiwei Feng, Zian Su +2

Intelligent coding systems are transforming software development by enabling users to specify code behavior in natural language. However, the opaque decision-making of AI-driven co…

cs.CR2025

ASTRA: Autonomous Spatial-Temporal Red-teaming for AI Software Assistants

Xiangzhe Xu, Guangyu Shen, Zian Su +9

AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot are rapidly transforming software development, but their safety remains deeply uncertain-especially in high-stakes domains like cybersecuri…

cs.CR2025

SOFT: Selective Data Obfuscation for Protecting LLM Fine-tuning against Membership Inference Attacks

Kaiyuan Zhang, Siyuan Cheng, Hanxi Guo +8

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success and are widely adopted for diverse applications. However, fine-tuning these models often involves private or sensitive…

cs.SE2025

TAI3: Testing Agent Integrity in Interpreting User Intent

Shiwei Feng, Xiangzhe Xu, Xuan Chen +5

LLM agents are increasingly deployed to automate real-world tasks by invoking APIs through natural language instructions. While powerful, they often suffer from misinterpretation o…

cs.CR2025★ 2 cited

LLM Agents Should Employ Security Principles

Kaiyuan Zhang, Zian Su, Pin-Yu Chen +3

Large Language Model (LLM) agents show considerable promise for automating complex tasks using contextual reasoning; however, interactions involving multiple agents and the system'…

cs.CL2025

KE: Matryoshka Unstructured Knowledge Editing of Large Language Models

Zian Su, Ziyang Huang, Kaiyuan Zhang +1

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful knowledge bases yet are limited by static training data, leading to issues such as hallucinations and safety risks. Editing a…

cs.SE2025★ 3 cited

RepoAudit: An Autonomous LLM-Agent for Repository-Level Code Auditing

Jinyao Guo, Chengpeng Wang, Xiangzhe Xu +2

Code auditing is the process of reviewing code with the aim of identifying bugs. Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities for this task without requiri…

cs.CR2024

ProSec: Fortifying Code LLMs with Proactive Security Alignment

Xiangzhe Xu, Zian Su, Jinyao Guo +3

While recent code-specific large language models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced their code generation capabilities, the safety of these models remains under-explored, posing potentia…

cs.SE2024

Source Code Foundation Models are Transferable Binary Analysis Knowledge Bases

Zian Su, Xiangzhe Xu, Ziyang Huang +2

Human-Oriented Binary Reverse Engineering (HOBRE) lies at the intersection of binary and source code, aiming to lift binary code to human-readable content relevant to source code,…

cs.SE2024

CodeArt: Better Code Models by Attention Regularization When Symbols Are Lacking

Zian Su, Xiangzhe Xu, Ziyang Huang +4

Transformer based code models have impressive performance in many software engineering tasks. However, their effectiveness degrades when symbols are missing or not informative. The…

cs.PL2024★ 2 cited

LLMDFA: Analyzing Dataflow in Code with Large Language Models

Chengpeng Wang, Wuqi Zhang, Zian Su +3

Dataflow analysis is a fundamental code analysis technique that identifies dependencies between program values. Traditional approaches typically necessitate successful compilation…

cs.SE2023★ 4 cited

Symbol Preference Aware Generative Models for Recovering Variable Names from Stripped Binary

Xiangzhe Xu, Zhuo Zhang, Zian Su +8

Decompilation aims to recover the source code form of a binary executable. It has many security applications, such as malware analysis, vulnerability detection, and code hardening.…