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Code LLMs struggle to classify vulnerabilities despite understanding risk

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A new research paper explores the limitations of code Large Language Models (LLMs) in classifying code vulnerabilities. While these models can effectively identify patterns and rank the relative risk between code snippets, they struggle to accurately classify isolated samples as definitively vulnerable or secure. This is because the models encode vulnerability information more as a relational signal (comparing risk between two code pieces) than as a distinct categorical label, leading to overlapping distributions in their representation space. AI

IMPACT Code LLMs may require new methods for vulnerability classification beyond simple linear probing.

RANK_REASON Research paper published on arXiv detailing findings about code LLMs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Code LLMs struggle to classify vulnerabilities despite understanding risk

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Rui Melo, Andre Catarino, Claudia Mamede, Corina Pasareanu, Rui Abreu ·

    When Models Know but Can't Linearly Say: Relational Encoding Limits Linear Vulnerability Classification in Code LLMs

    arXiv:2610.27257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models can detect vulnerable code, yet the form of vulnerability encoding in their representations remains unclear. We analyze 8 code models spanning 6.7B-15B parameters on C programs using three datasets (DELTASECO…

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