Revisiting Vul-RAG: Reproducibility and Replicability of RAG-Based Vulnerability Detection with Open-Weight Models

Large language models LLMs have shown strong potential for automated software vulnerability detection, particularly in retrieval-augmented generation RAG settings. However, for approaches relying on proprietary models and APIs, reproducibility and replicability remain largely unexplored, raising...

Dissecting the Black Box: Circuit-Level Analysis of LLM Vulnerability Detection

Large language models LLMs can detect software vulnerabilities, but how do they actually identify vulnerable code? We address this question using mechanistic interpretability; analyzing the internal computations of a neural network to understand its reasoning process.Using Circuit Tracer on...