Deep Neural Embedding for Software Vulnerability Discovery: Comparison and Optimization

Table 1

List of the acronyms involved in the manuscript.

Acronyms	Definition	Acronyms	Definition
DL	Deep learning	NLP	Natural language processing
ML	Machine learning	MLM	Masked language modeling
SARD	Software assurance reference dataset	RTD	Replace token detection
DBN	Deep belief network	NVD	National vulnerability dataset
LSTM	Long short-term memory	CVE	Common vulnerabilities and exposures
BiLSTM	Bidirectional long short-term memory	GRU	Gated recurrent unit
ELMo	Embeddings from language models	CBOW	Continuous bag-of-words model
CuBERT	Code understanding BERT	CNN	Convolutional neural network
MLP	Multilayer perceptron