3 papers
cs.SE2026
How and Why Agents Can Identify Bug-Introducing Commits
Niklas Risse, Marcel Böhme
Åliwerski, Zimmermann, and Zeller (SZZ) just won the 2026 ACM SIGSOFT Impact Award for asking: When do changes induce fixes? Their paper from 2005 served as the foundation for a w…
cs.CR2025
Chasing Shadows: Pitfalls in LLM Security Research
Jonathan Evertz, Niklas Risse, Nicolai Neuer +12
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in security research. Their unique characteristics, however, introduce challenges that undermine established paradigms of re…
cs.CR2025
Top Score on the Wrong Exam: On Benchmarking in Machine Learning for Vulnerability Detection
Niklas Risse, Jing Liu, Marcel Böhme
According to our survey of machine learning for vulnerability detection (ML4VD), 9 in every 10 papers published in the past five years define ML4VD as a function-level binary class…