3 papers
cs.SE2026
Are Sparse Autoencoders Useful for Java Function Bug Detection?
Rui Melo, Claudia Mamede, Andre Catarino +2
Software vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and SQL injections are a major source of security breaches. Traditional methods for vulnerability detection remain essential but a…
cs.LG2025
Microsaccade-Inspired Probing: Positional Encoding Perturbations Reveal LLM Misbehaviours
Rui Melo, Rui Abreu, Corina S. Pasareanu
We draw inspiration from microsaccades, tiny involuntary eye movements that reveal hidden dynamics of human perception, to propose an analogous probing method for large language mo…
cs.LG2025
Evaluating Privacy-Utility Tradeoffs in Synthetic Smart Grid Data
Andre Catarino, Rui Melo, Rui Abreu +1
The widespread adoption of dynamic Time-of-Use (dToU) electricity tariffs requires accurately identifying households that would benefit from such pricing structures. However, the u…