Comment on Revisiting Neural Program Smoothing for Fuzzing
Comment on Revisiting Neural Program Smoothing for Fuzzing
MLFuzz, a work accepted at ACM FSE 2023, revisits the performance of a machine learning-based fuzzer, NEUZZ. We demonstrate that its main conclusion is entirely wrong due to several fatal bugs in the implementation and wrong evaluation setups, including an initialization bug in persistent mode, a program crash, an error …