Comparing Robustness Against Adversarial Attacks in Code Generation: LLM-Generated vs. Human-Written

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10565v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:25:32 GMT
• Title: Comparing Robustness Against Adversarial Attacks in Code Generation: LLM-Generated vs. Human-Written
• Authors: Md Abdul Awal, Mrigank Rochan, Chanchal K. Roy,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces an empirical study to evaluate the adversarial robustness of Pre-trained Models of Code (PTMCs) fine-tuned on code written by humans. We consider two datasets, two state-of-the-art PTMCs, two robustness evaluation criteria, and three metrics to use in our experiments.
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• Abstract: Thanks to the widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) in software engineering research, the long-standing dream of automated code generation has become a reality on a large scale. Nowadays, LLMs such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are extensively used in code generation for enterprise and open-source software development and maintenance. Despite their unprecedented successes in code generation, research indicates that codes generated by LLMs exhibit vulnerabilities and security issues. Several studies have been conducted to evaluate code generated by LLMs, considering various aspects such as security, vulnerability, code smells, and robustness. While some studies have compared the performance of LLMs with that of humans in various software engineering tasks, there's a notable gap in research: no studies have directly compared human-written and LLM-generated code for their robustness analysis. To fill this void, this paper introduces an empirical study to evaluate the adversarial robustness of Pre-trained Models of Code (PTMCs) fine-tuned on code written by humans and generated by LLMs against adversarial attacks for software clone detection. These attacks could potentially undermine software security and reliability. We consider two datasets, two state-of-the-art PTMCs, two robustness evaluation criteria, and three metrics to use in our experiments. Regarding effectiveness criteria, PTMCs fine-tuned on human-written code always demonstrate more robustness than those fine-tuned on LLMs-generated code. On the other hand, in terms of adversarial code quality, in 75% experimental combinations, PTMCs fine-tuned on the human-written code exhibit more robustness than the PTMCs fine-tuned on the LLMs-generated code.

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