Niklas Risse

Niklas Risse

PhD Candidate in ML/Security

Selected Publications

You can also find a full list of my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

Top Score on the Wrong Exam: On Benchmarking in Machine Learning for Vulnerability Detection

✍️ Niklas Risse, Jing Liu, Marcel Böhme

🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award

📕 ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2025 (ISSTA'25)

💡 The most prevalent problem statement of ML4VD as function-level binary classification problem is ill-defined.

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Uncovering the Limits of Machine Learning for Automatic Vulnerability Detection

✍️ Niklas Risse, Marcel Böhme

📕 USENIX Security Symposium 2024 (USENIX Sec'24)

💡 Are machine learning models for vulnerability detection as good as they seem?

Paper | arXiv | Bibtex | Code | Dataset

How to Compare Adversarial Robustness of Classifiers From a Global Perspective

✍️ Niklas Risse, Christina Göpfert, Jan Philip Göpfert

📕 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks 2021 (ICANN'21)

💡 An alternative for point-wise measures of adversarial robustness.

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