Towards a Block-Level Conformer-Based Python Vulnerability Detection

Today's article comes from MDPI's Journal of Software. The authors are Bagheri et al., from the University of Szeged, in Hungary. This paper debuts a new method for detecting security-vulnerabilities in a Python codebase. According to the authors, their new approach attained the highest level of precision of any ML-based vulnerability-detector in history. Is their claim valid, or is it possible that their model was overfitted to the training data? Let's see.

DOI: 10.3390/software3030016

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