Sicong Cao

29 papers A* 7C 2Journal 20
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for ML/DL-based Software Engineering.
ACM Comput. Surv.
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Ratnadira Widyasari, David Lo, Xiaoxue Wu, Lili Bo, Jiale Zhang, Bin Li, Wei Liu, Di Wu, Yixin Chen
2026 J jnl
AdvGen-X: Transferability driven adversarial example generation for pre-trained models of code.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Xiangyue Liu, Xinwei Liu, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Xiaoxue Wu, Sicong Cao, Yufei Hu
2026 J jnl
ICON: Intent-Context Coupling for Efficient Multi-Turn Jailbreak Attack.
CoRR
Xingwei Lin, Wenhao Lin, Sicong Cao, Jiahao Yu, Renke Huang, Lei Xue, Chunming Wu
2025 C conf
AePPollo: Automated Exploit Generation for Prototype Pollution Vulnerabilities in Node.js Application.
SEKE
Wenya Wang, Wang Gao, Zhenghe Wang, Sicong Cao, Xingwei Lin, Dawu Gu
2025 J jnl
Federated Unlearning in the Wild: Rethinking Fairness and Data Discrepancy.
CoRR
Ziheng Huang, Di Wu, Jun Bai, Jiale Zhang, Sicong Cao, Ji Zhang, Yingjie Hu
2025 J jnl
HgtJIT: Just-in-Time Vulnerability Detection Based on Heterogeneous Graph Transformer.
IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput.
Xiaobing Sun, Mingxuan Zhou, Sicong Cao, Xiaoxue Wu, Lili Bo, Di Wu, Bin Li, Yang Xiang
2025 J jnl
KG4VA: Constructing Vulnerability Knowledge Graph for Software Vulnerability Assessment.
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.
Zhenlei Ye, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, Sicong Cao, Xiaoxue Ren, Lianyong Qi, Jiale Zhang
2025 J jnl
Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Xin Zhou, Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, David Lo
2025 A* conf
MalGuard: Towards Real-Time, Accurate, and Actionable Detection of Malicious Packages in PyPI Ecosystem.
USENIX Security Symposium
Xingan Gao, Xiaobing Sun, Sicong Cao, Kaifeng Huang, Di Wu, Xiaolei Liu, Xingwei Lin, Yang Xiang
2025 J jnl
MalGuard: Towards Real-Time, Accurate, and Actionable Detection of Malicious Packages in PyPI Ecosystem.
CoRR
Xingan Gao, Xiaobing Sun, Sicong Cao, Kaifeng Huang, Di Wu, Xiaolei Liu, Xingwei Lin, Yang Xiang
2025 J jnl
Well Begun is Half Done: Location-Aware and Trace-Guided Iterative Automated Vulnerability Repair.
CoRR
Zhenlei Ye, Xiaobing Sun, Sicong Cao, Lili Bo, Bin Li
2024 A* conf
1+1>2: Integrating Deep Code Behaviors with Metadata Features for Malicious PyPI Package Detection.
ASE
Xiaobing Sun, Xingan Gao, Sicong Cao, Lili Bo, Xiaoxue Wu, Kaifeng Huang
2024 J jnl
A Systematic Literature Review on Explainability for Machine/Deep Learning-based Software Engineering Research.
CoRR
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Ratnadira Widyasari, David Lo, Xiaoxue Wu, Lili Bo, Jiale Zhang, Bin Li, Wei Liu, Di Wu, Yixin Chen
2024 A* conf
Coca: Improving and Explaining Graph Neural Network-Based Vulnerability Detection Systems.
ICSE
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Xiaoxue Wu, David Lo, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Wei Liu
2024 J jnl
Coca: Improving and Explaining Graph Neural Network-Based Vulnerability Detection Systems.
CoRR
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Xiaoxue Wu, David Lo, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Wei Liu
2024 J jnl
EXVul: Toward Effective and Explainable Vulnerability Detection for IoT Devices.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Wei Liu, Di Wu, Jiale Zhang, Yan Li, Tom H. Luan, Longxiang Gao
2024 J jnl
Hierarchy-Aware Representation Learning for Industrial IoT Vulnerability Classification.
IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Xinye Yang, Xiaoxue Wu, Wei Liu, Bin Li
2024 J jnl
Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection and Repair: Literature Review and the Road Ahead.
CoRR
Xin Zhou, Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, David Lo
2024 J jnl
Learning to Detect Memory-related Vulnerabilities.
ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol.
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, Rongxin Wu, Bin Li, Xiaoxue Wu, Chuanqi Tao, Tao Zhang, Wei Liu
2024 A* conf
Snopy: Bridging Sample Denoising with Causal Graph Learning for Effective Vulnerability Detection.
ASE
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Xiaoxue Wu, David Lo, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Xiaolei Liu, Xingwei Lin, Wei Liu
2023 A* conf
Improving Java Deserialization Gadget Chain Mining via Overriding-Guided Object Generation.
ICSE
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Xiaoxue Wu, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Rongxin Wu, Wei Liu, Biao He, Yu Ouyang, Jiajia Li
2023 J jnl
Improving Java Deserialization Gadget Chain Mining via Overriding-Guided Object Generation.
CoRR
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Xiaoxue Wu, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Rongxin Wu, Wei Liu, Biao He, Yu Ouyang, Jiajia Li
2023 J jnl
ODDFUZZ: Discovering Java Deserialization Vulnerabilities via Structure-Aware Directed Greybox Fuzzing.
CoRR
Sicong Cao, Biao He, Xiaobing Sun, Yu Ouyang, Chao Zhang, Xiaoxue Wu, Ting Su, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Chuanlei Ma, Jiajia Li, Tao Wei
2023 A* conf
ODDFuzz: Discovering Java Deserialization Vulnerabilities via Structure-Aware Directed Greybox Fuzzing.
SP
Sicong Cao, Biao He, Xiaobing Sun, Yu Ouyang, Chao Zhang, Xiaoxue Wu, Ting Su, Lili Bo, Bin Li, Chuanlei Ma, Jiajia Li, Tao Wei
2022 A* conf
MVD: Memory-Related Vulnerability Detection Based on Flow-Sensitive Graph Neural Networks.
ICSE
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, Rongxin Wu, Bin Li, Chuanqi Tao
2022 J jnl
MVD: Memory-Related Vulnerability Detection Based on Flow-Sensitive Graph Neural Networks.
CoRR
Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, Rongxin Wu, Bin Li, Chuanqi Tao
2022 J jnl
SPVF: security property assisted vulnerability fixing via attention-based models.
Empir. Softw. Eng.
Zhou Zhou, Lili Bo, Xiaoxue Wu, Xiaobing Sun, Tao Zhang, Bin Li, Jiale Zhang, Sicong Cao
2021 J jnl
A comprehensive study on security bug characteristics.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Ying Wei, Xiaobing Sun, Lili Bo, Sicong Cao, Xin Xia, Bin Li
2021 C conf
GrasP: Graph-to-Sequence Learning for Automated Program Repair.
QRS
Ben Tang, Bin Li, Lili Bo, Xiaoxue Wu, Sicong Cao, Xiaobing Sun