SafeTune: Search-based Harmfulness Minimisation for Large Language Models (SSBSE 2026 - SSBSE Challenge)

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Giordano d'Aloisio, David Williams, Giusy Annunziata, Zhiwei Fei, Antinisca Di Marco, Federica Sarro

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SSBSE 2026 SSBSE Challenge

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Mon 6 Jul 2026 14:55 - 15:10 at MB 2.210 - SSBSE Challenge Chair(s): Moataz Chouchen

Link to Preprint

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07709

Giordano d'Aloisio

University of L'Aquila

Italy

David Williams

University College London

United Kingdom

Giusy Annunziata

University of Salerno

Italy

Zhiwei Fei

Nanjing University

Antinisca Di Marco

University of L'Aquila

Italy

Federica Sarro

University College London

United Kingdom

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Mon 6 Jul
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14:00 - 15:30	SSBSE ChallengeSSBSE Challenge at MB 2.210 Chair(s): Moataz Chouchen Concordia University

14:00 10m Talk		Challenge Overview SSBSE Challenge
14:10 15m Short-paper		ApkFuzz: Search-Based Fuzzing for Android APK Vulnerability Discovery SSBSE Challenge Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Aidan Dakhama The University of Edinburgh, UK, Harel Berger Ariel University Pre-print
14:25 15m Short-paper		Fuzz3: Entropy as a Third Oracle SSBSE Challenge Karine Even-Mendoza King’s College London, Janine Obiri University College London (UCL), Aidan Dakhama The University of Edinburgh, UK, Phil McMinn University of Sheffield, William Langdon University College London Pre-print
14:40 15m Short-paper		Reducing LLMs by Searching Heterogeneous Quantizations SSBSE Challenge Enrique Alba University of Malaga, Yazhuo Cao King's College London, Hector Menendez King’s College London Pre-print
14:55 15m Short-paper		SafeTune: Search-based Harmfulness Minimisation for Large Language Models SSBSE Challenge Giordano d'Aloisio University of L'Aquila, David Williams University College London, Giusy Annunziata University of Salerno, Zhiwei Fei Nanjing University, Antinisca Di Marco University of L'Aquila, Federica Sarro University College London Pre-print
15:10 15m Short-paper		Survival of the Stealthiest: Evolving Low-Entropy Ransomware via Genetic Algorithms SSBSE Challenge Efrat Levenberg Jerusalem College of Technology, Kristina Sviazhina , Pierre Parrend Université de Strasbourg, Ayelet Butman Holon Institute of Technology, Harel Berger Ariel University