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Record W4293370349 · doi:10.21428/594757db.b85e6625

Low Level Source Code Vulnerability Detection Using Advanced BERT Language Model

2022· article· en· W4293370349 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Reliability and Analysis Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceCode (set theory)Vulnerability (computing)Programming languageComputer security

Abstract

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In software security and reliability, automated vulnerability detection is an essential and compulsory task.Software needs to be tested and checked before it goes to the client for production.As technology changes rapidly, source code is also becoming massive.Thus the adequate accuracy of automated vulnerability detection has become very important to produce secure software and remove security concerns.According to previous research, a deep and recurrent neural network model can not satisfactorily test accuracy to detect all vulnerabilities.In this paper, we introduce experimental research on Bidirectional Encoder Representations Transformers (BERT), a state-of-the-art natural language processing model aimed to improve test accuracy, contributing to updates to the development of deep layers of the BERT model.As well, we balance and fine-tune the dataset of the model with improved parameters.This combination of changes achieves new levels of accuracy for the BERT model, with 99.30% test accuracy in detecting source code vulnerabilities.We have made our balanced dataset and advanced model publicly available for any research purposes.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.540
Threshold uncertainty score0.468

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.048
GPT teacher head0.321
Teacher spread0.273 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it