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PhD Position F/M PhD Position F/M: How does Reasoning with LLM Help Repair Vulnerabilities in Repo-level Software Projects?

Company: INRIA

Location: Rennes, London

Posted: June 07, 2026

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Within the framework of the ANR PRCI project SecLLM4SVD (Secured Large Language Models in Reliable Software Vulnerability Detection), Principal Investigator: Dr. Yufei Han.

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in automating the detection of software vulnerabilities (SVD) due to their ability to process both natural and programming languages. However, a critical reliability concern with state-of-the-art LLMs is their susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Subtle, problem-space modifications to source code—such as variable renaming or dead code insertion—can mislead the model without changing the code's main functionality or underlying vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the opaque, black-box nature of LLMs makes it difficult to understand whether they truly grasp code semantics or simply recognize...