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Concolic testing is a test generation technique which works effectively by integrating random testing generation and symbolic execution. Existing concolic testing engines focus on numeric programs. Heap-manipulating programs make extensive…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Long H. Pham , Quang Loc Le , Quoc-Sang Phan , Jun Sun

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are widely used for their ability to effectively approximate large classes of functions. This flexibility, however, makes the strict enforcement of constraints on DNNs an open problem. Here we present a framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Eric Marcus , Ray Sheombarsing , Jan-Jakob Sonke , Jonas Teuwen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play a crucial role in the field of machine learning, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various application domains. However, despite their success, DNN-based models may occasionally exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Guy Amir , Osher Maayan , Tom Zelazny , Guy Katz , Michael Schapira

This study proposes a deep learning-based approach for discovering loops in programming code according to their potential for parallelization. Two genetic algorithm-based code generators were developed to produce two distinct types of code:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Izavan dos S. Correia , Henrique C. T. Santos , Tiago A. E. Ferreira

In safety-critical systems (e.g., autonomous vehicles and robots), Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming a key component for computer vision tasks, particularly semantic segmentation. Further, since the DNN behavior cannot be assessed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Mohammed Oualid Attaoui , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

Theoretical understanding of deep learning is one of the most important tasks facing the statistics and machine learning communities. While deep neural networks (DNNs) originated as engineering methods and models of biological networks in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-04 Adam S. Charles

Deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly applied in safety-critical systems, e.g., for face recognition, autonomous car control and malware detection. It is also shown that DNNs are subject to attacks such as adversarial perturbation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Yizhen Dong , Peixin Zhang , Jingyi Wang , Shuang Liu , Jun Sun , Jianye Hao , Xinyu Wang , Li Wang , Jin Song Dong , Dai Ting

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are among the most powerful tools in deep learning. They routinely solve complex problems on unstructured networks, such as node classification, graph classification, or link prediction, with high accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Maciej Besta , Torsten Hoefler

Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been continuously expanding their real-world applications for source code processing tasks across the software engineering domain, e.g., clone detection, code search, comment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Maryam Vahdat Pour , Zhuo Li , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati

Concolic testing for deep neural networks alternates concrete execution with constraint solving to search for inputs that flip decisions. We present an {influence-guided} concolic tester for Transformer classifiers that ranks path…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chih-Duo Hong , Yu Wang , Yao-Chen Chang , Fang Yu

Despite the functional success of deep neural networks (DNNs), their trustworthiness remains a crucial open challenge. To address this challenge, both testing and verification techniques have been proposed. But these existing techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Teodora Baluta , Zheng Leong Chua , Kuldeep S. Meel , Prateek Saxena

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, there is a growing concern for their reliability. Even highly trained, high-performant networks are not 100% accurate. However, it is very difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Eduard Pinconschi , Divya Gopinath , Rui Abreu , Corina S. Pasareanu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on numerous applications. However, it is difficult to tell beforehand if a DNN receiving an input will deliver the correct output since their decision criteria are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Julia Lust , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Deep neural networks are widely used for nonlinear function approximation with applications ranging from computer vision to control. Although these networks involve the composition of simple arithmetic operations, it can be very challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Changliu Liu , Tomer Arnon , Christopher Lazarus , Christopher Strong , Clark Barrett , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In this paper, we propose a new Deep Neural Network (DNN) testing algorithm called the Constrained Gradient Descent (CGD) method, and an implementation we call CGDTest aimed at exposing security and robustness issues such as adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Vineel Nagisetty , Laura Graves , Guanting Pan , Piyush Jha , Vijay Ganesh

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have been widely applied to various sequential tasks such as text processing, video recognition, and molecular property prediction. We introduce the first coverage-guided testing tool, coined testRNN, for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Wei Huang , Youcheng Sun , Xiaowei Huang , James Sharp

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are the workhorses of deep learning, which constitutes the state of the art in numerous application domains. However, DNN-based decision rules are notoriously prone to poor generalization, i.e., may prove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Guy Amir , Osher Maayan , Tom Zelazny , Guy Katz , Michael Schapira

Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable innovative applications of machine learning like image recognition, machine translation, or malware detection. However, deep learning is often criticized for its lack of robustness in adversarial settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel

Hybrid systems exhibit both continuous and discrete behavior. Analyzing hybrid systems is known to be hard. Inspired by the idea of concolic testing (of programs), we investigate whether we can combine random sampling and symbolic execution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Pingfan Kong , Yi Li , Xiaohong Chen , Jun Sun , Meng Sun , Jingyi Wang

Deep Neural Network(DNN) techniques have been prevalent in software engineering. They are employed to faciliatate various software engineering tasks and embedded into many software applications. However, analyzing and understanding their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Xufan Zhang , Ziyue Yin , Yang Feng , Qingkai Shi , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen