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Deep learning (DL) has recently attracted increasing interest to improve object type classification for automotive radar.In addition to high accuracy, it is crucial for decision making in autonomous vehicles to evaluate the reliability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Kanil Patel , William Beluch , Kilian Rambach , Adriana-Eliza Cozma , Michael Pfeiffer , Bin Yang

Deep Learning (DL) has revolutionized the capabilities of vision-based systems (VBS) in critical applications such as autonomous driving, robotic surgery, critical infrastructure surveillance, air and maritime traffic control, etc. By…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Mohit Kumar Ahuja , Arnaud Gotlieb , Helge Spieker

This paper proposes a self-explainable Deep Learning (SE-DL) system for an image classification problem that performs self-error detection. The self-error detection is key to improving the DL system's safe operation, especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Mohammad Mahdi Karimi , Azin Heidarshenas , William W. Edmonson

As Deep Learning (DL) systems are widely deployed for mission-critical applications, debugging such systems becomes essential. Most existing works identify and repair suspicious neurons on the trained Deep Neural Network (DNN), which,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jialun Cao , Meiziniu Li , Xiao Chen , Ming Wen , Yongqiang Tian , Bo Wu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Reliability is a critical consideration to DL-based systems. But the statistical nature of DL makes it quite vulnerable to invalid inputs, i.e., those cases that are not considered in the training phase of a DL model. This paper proposes to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Haochuan Lu , Huanlin Xu , Nana Liu , Yangfan Zhou , Xin Wang

The growing use of deep neural networks in safety-critical applications makes it necessary to carry out adequate testing to detect and correct any incorrect behavior for corner case inputs before they can be actually used. Deep neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jasmine Sekhon , Cody Fleming

Various deep neural network (DNN) coverage criteria have been proposed to assess DNN test inputs and steer input mutations. The coverage is characterized via neurons having certain outputs, or the discrepancy between neuron outputs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Yuanyuan Yuan , Qi Pang , Shuai Wang

Deep learning (DL) has proven to be a highly effective approach for developing models in diverse contexts, including visual perception, speech recognition, and machine translation. However, the end-to-end process for applying DL is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Xuanyi Dong , David Jacob Kedziora , Katarzyna Musial , Bogdan Gabrys

Deep Learning (DL) frameworks are a fundamental component of DL development. Therefore, the detection of DL framework defects is important and challenging. As one of the most widely adopted DL testing techniques, model mutation has recently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yanzhou Mu , Rong Wang , Juan Zhai , Chunrong Fang , Xiang Chen , Zhiyuan Peng , Peiran Yang , Ruixiang Qian , Shaoyu Yang , Zhenyu Chen

Deep learning (DL) models of code have recently reported great progress for vulnerability detection. In some cases, DL-based models have outperformed static analysis tools. Although many great models have been proposed, we do not yet have a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Benjamin Steenhoek , Md Mahbubur Rahman , Richard Jiles , Wei Le

Deep learning (DL) techniques have gained significant popularity among software engineering (SE) researchers in recent years. This is because they can often solve many SE challenges without enormous manual feature engineering effort and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chao Liu , Cuiyun Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Xiaohu Yang

Deep Learning (DL) is increasingly used in safety-critical applications, raising concerns about its reliability. DL suffers from a well-known problem of lacking robustness, especially when faced with adversarial perturbations known as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wei Huang , Xingyu Zhao , Alec Banks , Victoria Cox , Xiaowei Huang

Unsupervised Deep Learning (DL) techniques have been widely used in various security-related anomaly detection applications, owing to the great promise of being able to detect unforeseen threats and superior performance provided by Deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Dongqi Han , Zhiliang Wang , Wenqi Chen , Ying Zhong , Su Wang , Han Zhang , Jiahai Yang , Xingang Shi , Xia Yin

The recent advances in machine learning in various fields of applications can be largely attributed to the rise of deep learning (DL) methods and architectures. Despite being a key technology behind autonomous cars, image processing, speech…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Carsten Hartmann , Lorenz Richter

Deep learning (DL)-based systems can exhibit unexpected behavior when exposed to out-of-distribution (OOD) scenarios, posing serious risks in safety-critical domains such as malware detection and autonomous driving. This underscores the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jingyu Zhang , Fan Wang , Jacky Keung , Yihan Liao , Yan Xiao , Lei Ma

In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

Successful deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) requires their validation with an adequate test set to ensure a sufficient degree of confidence in test outcomes. Although well-established test adequacy assessment techniques have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Amin Abbasishahkoo , Mahboubeh Dadkhah , Lionel Briand , Dayi Lin

An increasingly popular set of techniques adopted by software engineering (SE) researchers to automate development tasks are those rooted in the concept of Deep Learning (DL). The popularity of such techniques largely stems from their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Cody Watson , Nathan Cooper , David Nader Palacio , Kevin Moran , Denys Poshyvanyk

Deep Learning (DL) components are routinely integrated into software systems that need to perform complex tasks such as image or natural language processing. The adequacy of the test data used to test such systems can be assessed by their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Vincenzo Riccio , Nargiz Humbatova , Gunel Jahangirova , Paolo Tonella

Growth in system complexity increases the need for automated log analysis techniques, such as Log-based Anomaly Detection (LAD). While deep learning (DL) methods have been widely used for LAD, traditional machine learning (ML) techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Shan Ali , Chaima Boufaied , Domenico Bianculli , Paula Branco , Lionel Briand