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2026
From Trace to Line: An Empirical Study of What Drives LLM-Based OSS Vulnerability Localization
This paper introduces T2L (Trace-to-Line), a reproducible research framework that narrows repository-scale code into candidate vulnerable lines through AST-based chunking, structured diagnostic information collection, and evidence-guided refinement that improves trace-to-line localization.
Haoran Xi, Minghao Shao, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt et al.
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