EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Townsend Southard Pantano
dblp:377/2751
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Systems and software security · 67% Malware analysis · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Systems and software security
binary analysis |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Assemblage: Automatic Binary Dataset Construction for Machine Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Systems and software security › binary analysis
binary function similarity |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Assemblage: Automatic Binary Dataset Construction for Machine Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Malware analysis
malware classification |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Assemblage: Automatic Binary Dataset Construction for Machine Learning · NeurIPS 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
machine learning · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Assemblage: Automatic Binary Dataset Construction for Machine LearningabstractBinary code is pervasive, and binary analysis is a key task in reverse engineering, malware classification, and vulnerability discovery. Unfortunately, while there exist large corpuses of malicious binaries, obtaining high-quality corpuses of benign binaries for modern systems has proven challenging (e.g., due to licensing issues). Consequently, machine learning based pipelines for binary analysis utilize either costly commercial corpuses (e.g., VirusTotal) or open-source binaries (e.g., coreutils) available in limited quantities. To address these issues, we present Assemblage: an extensible cloud-based distributed system that crawls, configures, and builds Windows PE binaries to obtain high-quality binary corpuses suitable for training state-of-the-art models in binary analysis. We have run Assemblage on AWS over the past year, producing 890k Windows PE and 428k Linux ELF binaries across 29 configurations. Assemblage is designed to be both reproducible and extensible, enabling users to publish "recipes" for their datasets, and facilitating the extraction of a wide array of features. We evaluated Assemblage by using its data to train modern learning-based pipelines for compiler provenance and binary function similarity. Our results illustrate the practical need for robust corpuses of high-quality Windows PE binaries in training modern learning-based binary analyses. Chang Liu 0188, Rebecca Saul, Yihao Sun 0003, Edward Raff, Maya Fuchs, Townsend Southard Pantano, James Holt, Kristopher K. Micinski |
NeurIPS | 6 |