# Recall-Oriented Precise Binary-to-Source Function Matching

> BScout matches decompiled functions to a source corpus using chunked embeddings and inlining-aware training. Existing matches provide positional clues to expand candidates; LLM selection and structural filters refine the resulting correspondences.

- Authors: Junlin Li; Jianjun Huang; Wei You; Bin Liang
- Venue: arXiv
- Status: Preprint
- Publication / posting date: October 16, 2026
- Date source: First arXiv submission; the reviewed version is v1, not a verified proceedings publication.
- First arXiv submission: October 16, 2026
- arXiv: 2610.23546
- Reviewed arXiv version: v1
- Sources reviewed: 2026-10-20
- Added to the catalog: 2026-10-20
- Original paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23546>
- PDF: <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.23546v1>
- BibTeX: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/citations/paper-bscout.bib>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-bscout/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/papers/paper-bscout/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/papers/paper-bscout/index.md)

## Scope and limitations

BinKit-BCSA covers 3,904 small-utility binaries; Large-10 covers larger projects only at x86-64/O2. Some anomaly thresholds come from FreeCAD in Large-10. Incomplete ground truth, sparse anchors and source-corpus coverage limit conclusions. Function chunks are encoded independently, and extra refinement trades precision and cost against recall. This is correspondence retrieval, not proof of source recovery or semantic equivalence.

## Why it fits this collection

Helps identify source origins and reused components in stripped binaries, including inlined functions.

## Publication and review notes

Reviewed arXiv v1 and its four-author order. The paper promises a replication package upon formal peer-reviewed publication; no dedicated public implementation or license was verified.

## Primary sources

1. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.23546>
2. <https://arxiv.org/html/2610.23546v1>

## About this entry

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