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Deep Neural Network (DNN) is a widely used deep learning technique. How to ensure the safety of DNN-based system is a critical problem for the research and application of DNN. Robustness is an important safety property of DNN. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Chengdong Feng , Zhenbang Chen , Weijiang Hong , Hengbiao Yu , Wei Dong , Ji Wang

Explainability has been widely stated as a cornerstone of the responsible and trustworthy use of machine learning models. With the ubiquitous use of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models expanding to risk-sensitive and safety-critical domains,…

Deep learning using multi-layer neural networks (NNs) architecture manifests superb power in modern machine learning systems. The trained Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are typically large. The question we would like to address is whether it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Wei Pan , Hao Dong , Yike Guo

Normalization techniques are essential for accelerating the training and improving the generalization of deep neural networks (DNNs), and have successfully been used in various applications. This paper reviews and comments on the past,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Lei Huang , Jie Qin , Yi Zhou , Fan Zhu , Li Liu , Ling Shao

Can we take a recurrent neural network (RNN) trained to translate between languages and augment it to support a new natural language without retraining the model from scratch? Can we fix the faulty behavior of the RNN by replacing portions…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Sayem Mohammad Imtiaz , Fraol Batole , Astha Singh , Rangeet Pan , Breno Dantas Cruz , Hridesh Rajan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being employed in safety-critical systems, and there is an urgent need to guarantee their correctness. Consequently, the verification community has devised multiple techniques and tools for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Omri Isac , Clark Barrett , Min Zhang , Guy Katz

In this work, we describe a new approach that uses deep neural networks (DNN) to obtain regularization parameters for solving inverse problems. We consider a supervised learning approach, where a network is trained to approximate the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-15 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Julianne Chung , Matthias Chung

The increasing use of deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical systems has raised concerns about their potential for exhibiting ill-behaviors. While DNN verification and testing provide post hoc conclusions regarding unexpected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zhen Liang , Taoran Wu , Changyuan Zhao , Wanwei Liu , Bai Xue , Wenjing Yang , Ji Wang

This paper proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-driven framework to address the longstanding generalization challenge in adaptive filtering (AF). In contrast to traditional AF frameworks that emphasize explicit cost function design, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-07 Qizhen Wang , Gang Wang , Ying-Chang Liang

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been successfully applied to a wide range of problems. However, two main limitations are commonly pointed out. The first one is that they require long time to design. The other is that they heavily rely on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Adriano Vinhas , João Correia , Penousal Machado

This paper aims at rapid deployment of the state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) to energy efficient accelerators without time-consuming fine tuning or the availability of the full datasets. Converting DNNs in full precision to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Jun Haeng Lee , Sangwon Ha , Saerom Choi , Won-Jo Lee , Seungwon Lee

Given graphs as input, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) support the inference of nodes, edges, attributes, or graph properties. Graph Rewriting investigates the rule-based manipulation of graphs to model complex graph transformations. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Adam Machowczyk , Reiko Heckel

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved great success in a variety of machine learning (ML) applications, delivering high-quality inferencing solutions in computer vision, natural language processing, and virtual reality, etc. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Xiaofan Zhang , Yao Chen , Cong Hao , Sitao Huang , Yuhong Li , Deming Chen

We characterize a prevalent weakness of deep neural networks (DNNs)---overthinking---which occurs when a DNN can reach correct predictions before its final layer. Overthinking is computationally wasteful, and it can also be destructive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Yigitcan Kaya , Sanghyun Hong , Tudor Dumitras

Emergence of deep neural networks (DNNs) has raised enormous attention towards artificial neural networks (ANNs) once again. They have become the state-of-the-art models and have won different machine learning challenges. Although these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Shahriar Rezghi Shirsavar , Abdol-Hossein Vahabie , Mohammad-Reza A. Dehaqani

Significant interest in applying Deep Neural Network (DNN) has fueled the need to support engineering of software that uses DNNs. Repairing software that uses DNNs is one such unmistakable SE need where automated tools could be beneficial;…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Md Johirul Islam , Rangeet Pan , Giang Nguyen , Hridesh Rajan

Recently, methods have been developed to accurately predict the testing performance of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) on a particular task, given statistics of its underlying topological structure. However, further leveraging this newly found…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Stuart Synakowski , Fabian Benitez-Quiroz , Aleix M. Martinez

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be quite effective in a vast array of machine learning tasks, with recent examples in cyber security and autonomous vehicles. Despite the superior performance of DNNs in these applications, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Xue Liu , C. Lee Giles

Deep learning has delivered its powerfulness in many application domains, especially in image and speech recognition. As the backbone of deep learning, deep neural networks (DNNs) consist of multiple layers of various types with hundreds to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-14 Sheng Lin , Ning Liu , Mahdi Nazemi , Hongjia Li , Caiwen Ding , Yanzhi Wang , Massoud Pedram