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Approach: They propose a cross-domain code vulnerability detection framework called MNCRI . they propose mutual nearest neighbor contrastive learning to align the source and target domains .
Outcome: The proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cross-domain code vulnerability detection tasks.

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