J. Sun

38 papers B 1C 2Misc 1Journal 19Unranked 15
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2025 J jnl
CoRR
H. Li, J. Sun, Z. Zhang
2025 J jnl
CoRR
F. Gao, Y. Li, X. He, J. Sun, J. Wang
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Frank Brückerhoff-Plückelmann, Hendrik Borras, S. U. Hulyal, Lennart Meyer, X. Ji, J. Hu, J. Sun, Bernhard Klein, F. Ebert, Jelle Dijkstra, L. McRae, P. Schmidt, Tobias Kippenberg, Holger Fröning, Wolfram H. P. Pernice
2023 conf
IRPS
D. Wieland, Sybille Ofner, Manuel Stabentheiner, Boris Butej, Christian Koller, J. Sun, Andrea Minetto, Korbinian Reiser, Oliver Häberlen, Michael Nelhiebel, Michael Glavanovics, Dionyz Pogany, Clemens Ostermaier
2021 conf
ISSCC
P. Mishra, Amber Tan, Belal Helal, Cheng-Ru Ho, C. Loi, Jamal Riani, J. Sun, Kaizad Mistry, Karthik Raviprakash, L. Tse, Mehdi Davoodi, M. Takefman, N. Fan, P. Prabha, Q. Liu, Q. Wang, Rajasekhar Nagulapalli, S. Cyrusian, S. Jantzi, S. Scouten, T. Dusatko, T. Setya, V. Giridharan, V. Gurumoorthy, Victor Karam, W. Liew, Y. Liao, Y. Ou
2019 conf
ISSCC
Chang-Feng Loi, A. Mellati, Amber Tan, A. Farhoodfar, Arun Tiruvur, Belal Helal, Bob Killips, Farshid Rafiee Rad, Jamal Riani, Jorge Pernillo, J. Sun, J. Wong, K. Abdelhalim, K. Gopalakrishnan, Kwang Young Kim, Lawrence Tse, Mehdi Davoodi, Michael Q. Le, M. Zhang, M. Talegaonkar, P. Prabha, Ravindran Mohanavelu, S. Chong, Simon Forey, S. Netto, Sudeep Bhoja, W. Liew, Yida Duan, Y. Liao
2019 J jnl
J. Sci. Comput.
Juan Liu, J. Sun, Tiara Turner
2019 J jnl
Ann. Oper. Res.
L. Zhang, Y. P. Wang, J. Sun, B. Yu
2018 J jnl
Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell.
P. P. Gao, Yongping Li, J. Sun, Gordon H. Huang
2017 conf
Earth Observing Systems
J. Sun, M. Wang
2015 conf
OFC
Víctor López, Óscar González de Dios, Luis M. Contreras, J. Foster, H. Silva, L. Blair, J. Marsella, Thomas Szyrkowiec, Achim Autenrieth, C. Liou, A. Sasdasivarao, S. Syed, J. Sun, B. Rao, Fatai Zhang, Juan P. Fernández Palacios
2015 conf
AuCC
Z. Wu, J. Sun, X. Wang
2015 J jnl
J. Netw. Comput. Appl.
Shengbin Liao, J. Sun, Y. Chen, Y. Wang, P. Zhang
2014 conf
OFC
Purnawirman, E. Shah Hosseini, Anna Baldycheva, J. Sun, J. D. B. Bradley, T. N. Adam, Gerald Leake, Douglas Coolbaugh, Michael R. Watts
2014 conf
CIC
Zhiyong Zhan, Mark Demarie, Bin Zhou, Xin Liu, J. Sun, Albert H. Titus
2013 conf
AIM
Andreas Hermann, J. Sun, Zhixing Xue, Steffen W. Ruehl, Jan Oberländer, Arne Roennau, Johann Marius Zöllner, Rüdiger Dillmann
2012 conf
NEMS
Niclas Lindvall, J. Sun, August Yurgens
2010 J jnl
IET Commun.
J. Sun, Habib F. Rashvand, H. B. Zhu
2010 J jnl
J. Heuristics
J. Sun, Qingfu Zhang, J. Li
2009 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory
J. Wang, X. Wu, S. Yu, J. Sun
2009 J jnl
Int. J. Robotics Autom.
Y. Du, J. Sun, J. Han, Y. Tang
2008 conf
ICAIT
L. H. Chen, Chi Chiu Chan, J. Sun
2008 conf
ICAIT
Y. F. Zhang, Chi Chiu Chan, J. Sun, L. T. Zheng, H. L. Ho, Xinyong Dong, Li-Yang Shao
2008 conf
ICAIT
J. Sun, Chi Chiu Chan, Y. F. Zhang
2008 J jnl
IET Softw.
Y. Lu, L. Zhang, J. Sun
2007 J jnl
Int. J. Control
J. Sun, Q.-G. Wang, Qing-Chang Zhong
2006 J jnl
Multidimens. Syst. Signal Process.
J. Sun, J. Liu
2004 C conf
IGARSS
Douglas C. Vandemark, William M. Drennan, J. Sun, Jeffrey R. French, Hans C. Graber
2002 B conf
FUZZ-IEEE
J. Sun, X. Y. Gao, Y. Sun
2001 J jnl
Comput. Ind.
J. Sun, D. Xue
2001 J jnl
Comput. Ind.
Deyi Xue, J. Sun, Douglas H. Norrie
2001 J jnl
Oper. Res.
Y. Feng, J. Sun
2001 conf
German Conference on Bioinformatics
J. Sun, Joop van den Heuvel, An-Ping Zeng
2000 C conf
ACC
H. Zeng, Jeff Kuehn, G. Song, J. Sun, Harold Stalford
1999 Misc conf
FCCM
Pak K. Chan, Mark J. Boyd, Sezer Gören, K. Klenk, V. Kodavati, R. Kundu, M. Margolese, J. Sun, Katsuharu Suzuki, E. Thorne, X. Wang, J. Xu, M. Zhu
1998 J jnl
SIAM J. Optim.
J. Sun, H. Kuo
1997 conf
RTS
Z. Deng, Jane W.-S. Liu, J. Sun
1995 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote. Sens.
Anthony Freeman, Marcos Alves, Bruce Chapman, J. Cruz, Y. Kim, Scott Shaffer, J. Sun, E. Turner, Kamal Sarabandi
redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/analysis/cfg_features.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/analysis/cfg_features.py python
import struct
from collections import deque
from typing import Optional

import blake3
import mmh3


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.1: Core Graph Utilities
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def bfs_order(successors: list[list[int]], n: int) -> list[int]:
    """
    BFS traversal from node 0 (entry block), returns node indices in visit order.
    Unreachable nodes appended at the end.
    """
    if n == 0:
        return []

    visited = set()
    order = []
    queue = deque([0])
    visited.add(0)

    while queue:
        idx = queue.popleft()
        order.append(idx)
        for target in successors[idx]:
            if target not in visited:
                visited.add(target)
                queue.append(target)

    # Append unreachable blocks (dead code)
    for i in range(n):
        if i not in visited:
            order.append(i)

    return order


def bfs_max_depth(successors: list[list[int]], n: int) -> int:
    """
    Maximum BFS depth from entry block (node 0).
    Replaces the per-block depth column with a single scalar.
    """
    if n == 0:
        return 0

    depth = {0: 0}
    max_d = 0
    queue = deque([0])

    while queue:
        node = queue.popleft()
        for s in successors[node]:
            if s not in depth:
                depth[s] = depth[node] + 1
                if depth[s] > max_d:
                    max_d = depth[s]
                queue.append(s)

    return max_d


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.2: Back-Edge Detection (Iterative DFS)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def count_back_edges(successors: list[list[int]], n: int) -> int:
    """
    Count natural loops via iterative DFS back-edge detection.
    A back edge is an edge to a GRAY (in-stack) node.

    Iterative to avoid stack overflow on functions with 1000+ blocks
    (common in obfuscated malware, VM dispatchers, unrolled loops).
    """
    if n == 0:
        return 0

    WHITE, GRAY, BLACK = 0, 1, 2
    color = [WHITE] * n
    back_edges = 0

    stack = [(0, iter(successors[0]))]
    color[0] = GRAY

    while stack:
        u, children = stack[-1]
        try:
            v = next(children)
            if color[v] == GRAY:
                back_edges += 1
            elif color[v] == WHITE:
                color[v] = GRAY
                stack.append((v, iter(successors[v])))
        except StopIteration:
            color[u] = BLACK
            stack.pop()

    return back_edges


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.3: Topology Hash
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def compute_topology_hash(
    successors: list[list[int]],
    bfs: list[int],
    n: int,
) -> bytes:
    """
    BLAKE3 hash of BFS-ordered canonical adjacency.
    Pure graph shape — ignores all block content.
    Two functions with identical control flow structure produce identical hashes.

    Returns 16 bytes (128-bit).
    """
    if n == 0:
        return b'\x00' * 16

    # Remap: original index -> BFS position
    remap = {original: position for position, original in enumerate(bfs)}

    canonical = bytearray()
    for position in range(n):
        original_idx = bfs[position]
        remapped_succs = sorted(
            remap[s] for s in successors[original_idx] if s in remap
        )
        # Pack: node_index (2 bytes) + num_successors (1 byte) + successor indices (2 bytes each)
        canonical.extend(struct.pack('<HB', position, len(remapped_succs)))
        for s in remapped_succs:
            canonical.extend(struct.pack('<H', s))

    return blake3.blake3(bytes(canonical)).digest(length=16)


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.4: MD-Index (Top-Down and Bottom-Up)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def compute_md_index_topdown(
    successors: list[list[int]],
    predecessors: list[list[int]],
    bfs: list[int],
) -> int:
    """
    BinDiff-style top-down MD-index.
    Hash of (in_degree, out_degree) sequence in BFS order from entry.
    Returns UInt64.
    """
    if not bfs:
        return 0

    degree_bytes = bytearray()
    for idx in bfs:
        in_deg = min(len(predecessors[idx]), 255)
        out_deg = min(len(successors[idx]), 255)
        degree_bytes.extend(struct.pack('<BB', in_deg, out_deg))

    h = blake3.blake3(bytes(degree_bytes)).digest(length=8)
    return struct.unpack('<Q', h)[0]


def compute_md_index_bottomup(
    successors: list[list[int]],
    predecessors: list[list[int]],
    n: int,
) -> int:
    """
    Bottom-up MD-index: BFS from exit blocks (no successors),
    traversing edges in reverse.
    Returns UInt64.
    """
    if n == 0:
        return 0

    exits = [i for i in range(n) if len(successors[i]) == 0]
    if not exits:
        exits = [n - 1]  # Fallback: use last block

    visited = set(exits)
    order = []
    queue = deque(exits)

    while queue:
        idx = queue.popleft()
        order.append(idx)
        for pred in predecessors[idx]:
            if pred not in visited:
                visited.add(pred)
                queue.append(pred)

    # Append unreachable blocks
    for i in range(n):
        if i not in visited:
            order.append(i)

    degree_bytes = bytearray()
    for idx in order:
        in_deg = min(len(predecessors[idx]), 255)
        out_deg = min(len(successors[idx]), 255)
        degree_bytes.extend(struct.pack('<BB', in_deg, out_deg))

    h = blake3.blake3(bytes(degree_bytes)).digest(length=8)
    return struct.unpack('<Q', h)[0]


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.5: Prime Product
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Small primes assigned to LLIL opcode categories.
# Keys are the integer values of binaryninja.LowLevelILOperation enum members.
# We use integer keys so this module doesn't import binaryninja.
#
# Mapping rationale: same operation class -> same prime.
# Using LLIL (not native asm) makes this architecture-independent.
#
# Populated at import time by cfg.py using the real LowLevelILOperation enum values.
# Unknown ops map to prime 1 (identity element) in compute_prime_product().
LLIL_OP_PRIMES: dict[int, int] = {}


def compute_prime_product(llil_operations: list[int]) -> int:
    """
    Product of small primes assigned to each LLIL opcode.
    Position-independent: block reordering doesn't change the result.
    Mod 2^64 for fixed-size storage.

    Args:
        llil_operations: flat list of LLIL operation enum integer values
                         for all instructions in the function.
    Returns:
        UInt64 prime product, or 0 if no instructions.
    """
    if not llil_operations:
        return 0

    product = 1
    for op in llil_operations:
        prime = LLIL_OP_PRIMES.get(op, 1)
        product = (product * prime) % (2**64)

    return product


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.6: ACFG Block Features
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Instruction category indices for ACFG feature vectors
CAT_ARITHMETIC = 0
CAT_LOGIC = 1
CAT_TRANSFER = 2
CAT_CALL = 3
CAT_COMPARISON = 4
CAT_MEMORY = 5
CAT_OTHER = 6

# Maps LLIL operation integer values to category indices.
# Populated at import time by cfg.py using the real LowLevelILOperation enum.
LLIL_OP_CATEGORIES: dict[int, int] = {}


def build_block_features(
    block_llil_ops: list[list[int]],
    successors: list[list[int]],
    n: int,
) -> list[list[int]]:
    """
    Extract Gemini-style ACFG features per block.

    Args:
        block_llil_ops: per-block list of LLIL operation integer values.
                        block_llil_ops[i] is the list of ops for block i.
                        Empty list if LLIL unavailable for that block.
        successors: index-based adjacency list.
        n: number of blocks.

    Returns:
        List of [instr_count, arithmetic, logic, transfer, call, comparison,
                 memory, successor_count] per block. All values capped at 65535.
    """
    features = []
    for i in range(n):
        cats = [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
        ops = block_llil_ops[i] if i < len(block_llil_ops) else []
        for op in ops:
            cat = LLIL_OP_CATEGORIES.get(op, CAT_OTHER)
            cats[cat] += 1

        instr_count = len(ops)
        features.append([
            min(instr_count, 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_ARITHMETIC], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_LOGIC], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_TRANSFER], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_CALL], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_COMPARISON], 65535),
            min(cats[CAT_MEMORY], 65535),
            min(len(successors[i]), 65535),
        ])

    return features


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.7: CFG Feature TLSH
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def compute_cfg_feature_tlsh(
    bb_features: list[list[int]],
    bfs: list[int],
) -> Optional[str]:
    """
    TLSH hash of BFS-ordered per-block feature vectors.
    Captures both structure (BFS ordering) and instruction distribution.

    Returns TLSH hex string or None if too few bytes for TLSH (< 50).
    """
    import tlsh as _tlsh

    feature_bytes = bytearray()
    for idx in bfs:
        feats = bb_features[idx]
        feature_bytes.extend(struct.pack(
            '<HBBBBBBB',
            min(feats[0], 65535),
            min(feats[1], 255),
            min(feats[2], 255),
            min(feats[3], 255),
            min(feats[4], 255),
            min(feats[5], 255),
            min(feats[6], 255),
            min(feats[7], 255),
        ))

    if len(feature_bytes) < 50:
        return None

    try:
        h = _tlsh.hash(bytes(feature_bytes))
        return h if h and h != 'TNULL' else None
    except Exception:
        return None


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.8: WL-MinHash
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Pre-computed seeds for MinHash permutations.
NUM_WL_MINHASH_PERMS = 128
_WL_MINHASH_SEEDS = list(range(NUM_WL_MINHASH_PERMS))  # Seeds 0..127


def compute_wl_minhash(
    successors: list[list[int]],
    predecessors: list[list[int]],
    bb_features: list[list[int]],
    n: int,
    iterations: int = 3,
) -> list[int]:
    """
    Weisfeiler-Leman MinHash for fuzzy topology similarity.

    Initial labels: mmh3 hash of per-block ACFG feature tuple (content-aware).
    WL refinement: incorporate sorted neighbor labels at each iteration.
    MinHash: 128-permutation signature over shingle set.

    Returns list of 128 uint8 values, or [255]*128 sentinel for empty functions.
    """
    if n == 0:
        return [255] * NUM_WL_MINHASH_PERMS

    # Initial labels: hash of instruction category tuple per block
    labels = []
    for i in range(n):
        feats = bb_features[i] if i < len(bb_features) else [0] * 8
        # mmh3 with seed=0 for initial labels
        label = mmh3.hash(str(tuple(feats)), 0) & 0xFFFFFFFF
        labels.append(label)

    # Collect shingles: (iteration, label) pairs as strings for mmh3
    shingles: set[str] = set()

    # Iteration 0: individual block labels
    for label in labels:
        shingles.add(f"0:{label}")

    # WL iterations: refine labels by neighborhood aggregation
    for iteration in range(1, iterations + 1):
        new_labels = []
        for i in range(n):
            succ_labels = tuple(sorted(labels[s] for s in successors[i]))
            pred_labels = tuple(sorted(labels[p] for p in predecessors[i]))
            composite = f"{labels[i]}|{succ_labels}|{pred_labels}"
            new_label = mmh3.hash(composite, 0) & 0xFFFFFFFF
            new_labels.append(new_label)
            shingles.add(f"{iteration}:{new_label}")
        labels = new_labels

    if not shingles:
        return [255] * NUM_WL_MINHASH_PERMS

    # Compute MinHash signature using mmh3 with different seeds
    shingle_list = list(shingles)
    signature = []
    for seed in _WL_MINHASH_SEEDS:
        min_val = 0xFFFFFFFF
        for s in shingle_list:
            h = mmh3.hash(s, seed) & 0xFFFFFFFF
            if h < min_val:
                min_val = h
        # Compress to uint8 for storage
        signature.append(min_val & 0xFF)

    return signature


# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Task 1.9: Packed Adjacency
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

def pack_adjacency(successors: list[list[int]]) -> list[int]:
    """
    Pack CFG edges as Array(UInt32).
    Each UInt32 = (source_index << 16) | target_index.
    Supports up to 65,535 blocks per function.
    """
    edges = []
    for src, targets in enumerate(successors):
        for tgt in targets:
            if src < 65536 and tgt < 65536:
                edges.append((src << 16) | tgt)
    return edges