A systematic literature review on explainability for machine/deep learning-based software engineering research

S Cao, X Sun, R Widyasari, D Lo, X Wu, L Bo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The remarkable achievements of Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms, particularly in
Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), have fueled their extensive deployment …

Top score on the wrong exam: On benchmarking in machine learning for vulnerability detection

N Risse, M Böhme - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.12986, 2024 - arxiv.org
According to our survey of the machine learning for vulnerability detection (ML4VD)
literature published in the top Software Engineering conferences, every paper in the past 5 …

Attention is all you need for llm-based code vulnerability localization

Y Li, X Li, H Wu, Y Zhang, X Cheng, S Zhong… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The rapid expansion of software systems and the growing number of reported vulnerabilities
have emphasized the importance of accurately identifying vulnerable code segments …

Large Language Models and Code Security: A Systematic Literature Review

E Basic, A Giaretta - arxiv preprint arxiv:2412.15004, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for automating various
programming tasks, including security-related ones, such as detecting and fixing …

VulAdvisor: Natural Language Suggestion Generation for Software Vulnerability Repair

J Zhang, C Wang, A Li, W Wang, T Li… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Software vulnerabilities pose serious threats to the security of modern software systems.
Deep Learning-based Automated Vulnerability Repair (AVR) has gained attention as a …

Towards Effectively Detecting and Explaining Vulnerabilities Using Large Language Models

Q Mao, Z Li, X Hu, K Liu, X **a, J Sun - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.09701, 2024 - arxiv.org
Software vulnerabilities pose significant risks to the security and integrity of software
systems. Prior studies have proposed a series of approaches to vulnerability detection using …

An Empirical Study of Automated Vulnerability Localization with Large Language Models

J Zhang, C Wang, A Li, W Sun, C Zhang, W Ma… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recently, Automated Vulnerability Localization (AVL) has attracted much attention, aiming to
facilitate diagnosis by pinpointing the lines of code responsible for discovered …

An Empirical Study of Vulnerability Detection using Federated Learning

P Zhou, M Hu, X Quan, Y Peng, X **e, Y Yang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Although Deep Learning (DL) methods becoming increasingly popular in vulnerability
detection, their performance is seriously limited by insufficient training data. This is mainly …

Detecting Vulnerabilities via Explicitly Leveraging Vulnerability Features on Program Slices

H Guo, X Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Shen - International Symposium on …, 2024 - Springer
As the size and complexity of software continue to increase, detecting software
vulnerabilities becomes increasingly challenging. Traditional static and dynamic analysis …

Building trustworthy AI from small DNNs to large language models: a software engineering perspective

T Li - 2025 - dr.ntu.edu.sg
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) software becomes increasingly prevalent across various
industries, concerns about its trustworthiness and reliability have come to the forefront …