Nasim Ahmed

23 papers A* 2B 2Misc 3Journal 10Unranked 6
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
IEEE Access
Md. Sadi Al Huda, Esrath Kanon, Md. Shahidul Khan Pappo, Md. Asraf Ali, Nasim Ahmed
2026 A* conf
VR
Nasim Ahmed, Md Mahedi Hassan, Md Mushfique Hossain, Nazmus Shakib Shadin, Xinyue Zhang, Rifatul Islam
2025 J jnl
Frontiers Virtual Real.
Nasim Ahmed, Peng Wu, Kaiming Huang, Sungchul Jung, Hansol Rheem, Gang Tan, Mahdi Imani, Rifatul Islam
2025 conf
ISMAR-Adjunct
Nasim Ahmed
2025 J jnl
IEEE Access
Chamak Saha, Somak Saha, Md. Asadur Rahman, Md. Mahmudul Haque, Hiroki Higa, Mohd Abdur Rashid, Nasim Ahmed
2025 B conf
MobiHoc
Peng Wu, Nasim Ahmed, Kaiming Huang, Rifatul Islam, Tian Lan, Gang Tan, Mahdi Imani
2025 A* conf
ISMAR
Peng Wu, Nasim Ahmed, Abhiram Sarma, Kaiming Huang, Rifatul Islam, Bin Li, Tian Lan, Gang Tan, Mahdi Imani
2025 conf
VR Workshops
Nasim Ahmed, Taeyeong Choi, Xinyue Zhang, Sahidul Islam, Rifatul Islam
2025 B conf
MobiHoc
Nazmus Shakib Shadin, Nasim Ahmed, Md Mahedi Hassan, Rifatul Islam, Xinyue Zhang
2024 J jnl
IEEE Access
Weilin Yang, Nasim Ahmed, Andre L. C. Barczak
2022 J jnl
J. Big Data
Nasim Ahmed, Andre L. C. Barczak, Mohammed A. Rashid, Teo Susnjak
2021 J jnl
J. Big Data
Nasim Ahmed, Andre L. C. Barczak, Mohammed A. Rashid, Teo Susnjak
2021 J jnl
Big Data Cogn. Comput.
Nasim Ahmed, Andre L. C. Barczak, Mohammed A. Rashid, Teo Susnjak
2021 Misc conf
IVCNZ
Kyuwon Shim, Andre L. C. Barczak, Napoleon H. Reyes, Nasim Ahmed
2020 J jnl
J. Big Data
Nasim Ahmed, Andre L. C. Barczak, Teo Susnjak, Mohammed A. Rashid
2020 conf
ICCDE
Md. Razu Ahmed, Md. Asraf Ali, Nasim Ahmed, Md. Fahad Bin Zamal, F. M. Javed Mehedi Shamrat
2019 conf
AHFE (14)
Sam Matiur Rahman, Md. Asraf Ali, Omar Altwijri, Mahdi Alqahtani, Nasim Ahmed, Nizam Uddin Ahamed
2017 conf
WearSys@MobiSys
Shalini Mukhopadhyay, Nasim Ahmed, Dibyanshu Jaiswal, Arijit Sinharay, Avik Ghose, Tapas Chakravarty, Arpan Pal
2016 Misc conf
ITNAC
Nasim Ahmed, Mohd Abdur Rashid, Monirul Islam
2016 J jnl
IET Commun.
Sohel Rana, Sharafat Ali, Nasim Ahmed, Raonaqul Islam, Syed Alwee Aljunid
2014 J jnl
Int. J. Commun. Networks Inf. Secur.
Waqas Ahmed Imtiaz, Nasim Ahmed
2013 Misc conf
SenSys
Avik Ghose, Kingshuk Chakravarty, Amit Kumar Agrawal, Nasim Ahmed
2011 conf
ICSECS (3)
Nasim Ahmed, Syed Alwee Aljunid, R. Badlishah Ahmad, Hilal Adnan Fadhil, Mohd Abdur Rashid
redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/similarity/minhasher.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/similarity/minhasher.py python
import logging
import random
from enum import Enum

from ..analysis.medium_level_normalization import MediumLevelNormalization

try:
    from .minhashcustom import MinHashCustom
    from ..analysis.low_level_normalization import LowLevelNormalization
except ImportError:
    # Fallback to absolute imports (for multiprocessing spawned processes)
    from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.similarity.minhashcustom import MinHashCustom
    from redb.extractors.decompiler.bninja.analysis.low_level_normalization import LowLevelNormalization

## Values for this configuration were extracted from https://github.com/danielplohmann/mcrit/blob/main/mcrit/config/MinHashConfig.py#L10
# Length in number of Shingles of which a minhash consists
# this value represents the length of sha256sum hash truncated
MINHASH_SIGNATURE_LENGTH: int = 64
# Number of bits per signature element (1-32 bits)
MINHASH_SIGNATURE_BITS: int = 8


class TokenKind(Enum):
    LLIL = "llil"
    TYPED_LLIL = "typed_llil"
    MLIL = "mlil"
    TYPED_MLIL = "typed_mlil"


class MinHasher:
    # stick to the default method
    MINHASH_STRATEGY_HASH_ALL = 1

    def __init__(self, seed, il_function, kind: TokenKind = TokenKind.LLIL):
        self._minhash_seeds = []
        self.il_func = il_function
        self.kind = kind
        self._minhash_permutation = []
        self._signature_segments = []
        self._initMinhashing(seed)

    def _initMinhashing(self, MINHASH_SEED=None):
        random.seed(MINHASH_SEED)
        # init sequence of seeds
        self._minhash_seeds = [
            random.randint(0, MinHashCustom.getHashMax()) for _ in range(MINHASH_SIGNATURE_LENGTH)
        ]

    def make_ngrams(self, tokens, n=3):
        """Take the ngrams of the IL we try to pass into the functions"""
        return [tuple(tokens[i:i+n]) for i in range(len(tokens) - n + 1)]

    def _extract_tokens(self):
        """Extract the IL tokens from the IL function, picking the right
        normalizer (LLIL/MLIL) and the right normalization mode
        (skeleton/typed) based on self.kind."""
        if self.kind in (TokenKind.LLIL, TokenKind.TYPED_LLIL):
            normalizer = LowLevelNormalization()
        elif self.kind in (TokenKind.MLIL, TokenKind.TYPED_MLIL):
            normalizer = MediumLevelNormalization()
        else:
            raise ValueError(f"Unsupported token kind: {self.kind}")

        # typed variants include operand type info, skeleton variants don't
        if self.kind in (TokenKind.TYPED_LLIL, TokenKind.TYPED_MLIL):
            normalize = normalizer.normalize_instr_with_operands
        else:
            normalize = normalizer.normalize_instruction_all_levels

        instructions = []
        for basic_block in self.il_func.basic_blocks:
            for il in basic_block:
                instructions.append(normalize(il))

        return instructions

    def calculateMinHash(self):
        """Calculate hash function every time, then take minimum shingle per shingler"""
        minhash_result = MinHashCustom(minhash_bits=MINHASH_SIGNATURE_BITS)
        minhash_signature = []

        tokens = self._extract_tokens()
        shingles = self.make_ngrams(tokens, n=3)

        # Functions with fewer than 3 IL instructions can't produce n-grams
        # Return empty minhash for such small functions (thunks, stubs, etc.)
        # Triggered by 39d8ad95b0323c37bd3134ab93ac4af44c66a1a8443a41c1ac02cec19bb2816a
        if not shingles:
            return []

        # Generate the MinHash
        for seed in self._minhash_seeds:
            hashed_shingles = [
                self.shingle_hash(shingle, seed) for shingle in shingles
            ]
            min_value = min(hashed_shingles)

            if MINHASH_SIGNATURE_BITS < 32:
                min_value %= (2 ** MINHASH_SIGNATURE_BITS)

            minhash_signature.append(min_value)

        minhash_result.setMinHash(minhash_signature)
        return minhash_result.getMinHashInt()

    def shingle_hash(self, shingle, hash_seed=0):
        """Produce a single 32bit UINT hash for a given shingle"""
        return MinHashCustom.hashData(shingle, hash_seed)