MPI-Sec PhD Thesis on Vulnerability Detection Benchmarks Includes Pre-LLM Classic "Top Score on the Wrong Exam"
mboehme_ · x · 2026-10-23
Niklas Risse has completed his PhD at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (degree from Ruhr University Bochum), with research focused on understanding and benchmarking vulnerability detection capabilities.
His newly published thesis is recommended for including "Top Score on the Wrong Exam" — one of the quoter's favorite pre-LLM ML-for-vulnerability-detection papers. A useful systematic resource for anyone working on AI for security and code vulnerability detection.
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