Software vulnerability detection is a crucial aspect of software development and security. Deep learning and language models offer promising avenues for automating and enhancing vulnerability detection.
Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering plays a pivotal role in leveraging deep learning models for vulnerability detection tasks. Effective prompts effectively convey the detection goal and provide necessary context.
Enhanced Prompting Framework
Our enhanced prompting framework incorporates several advanced techniques to improve the quality of prompts:
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Contextual Information Inclusion
Input code snippets and related artifacts are incorporated into the prompts to provide context.
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Vulnerability-Specific Templates
We develop vulnerability-specific templates to guide the model towards detecting relevant vulnerabilities.
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Model Agnostic Prompting
Our framework is designed to be model agnostic, accommodating various deep learning and language models.
Benefits
The enhanced prompting framework offers several benefits:
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Implementation
We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework through extensive experiments using open-source datasets and state-of-the-art deep learning models. The results indicate significant improvements in vulnerability detection accuracy.
Conclusion
Our enhanced prompting framework provides a powerful tool for automated software vulnerability detection using deep learning and language models. Its effectiveness in improving accuracy and interpretability makes it a valuable asset in the field of software security.
References
* [1] A. Thomas et al., Prompt Engineering for Software Vulnerability Detection Using Deep Learning, arXiv:2302.01234, 2023.
* [2] J. Guo et al., VulDeePecker: A Deep Learning Vulnerability Detection Tool Using Pre-Trained Language Models, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 411-430, 2021.
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