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ReVul-CoT: Towards Effective Software Vulnerability Assessment with Retrieval-Augmented Generation and Chain-of-Thought Prompting

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Main Authors:	Chen, Zhijie, Chen, Xiang, Li, Ziming, Xue, Jiacheng, Gao, Chaoyang
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Software Engineering
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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