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The success of deep learning depends on finding an architecture to fit the task. As deep learning has scaled up to more challenging tasks, the architectures have become difficult to design by hand. This paper proposes an automated method,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Risto Miikkulainen , Jason Liang , Elliot Meyerson , Aditya Rawal , Dan Fink , Olivier Francon , Bala Raju , Hormoz Shahrzad , Arshak Navruzyan , Nigel Duffy , Babak Hodjat

Deep learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a data-driven method that uses multiple layers of interconnected units or neurons to learn intricate patterns and representations directly from raw input data. Empowered by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mohd Halim Mohd Noor , Ayokunle Olalekan Ige

Deep learning (DL) defines a new data-driven programming paradigm where the internal system logic is largely shaped by the training data. The standard way of evaluating DL models is to examine their performance on a test dataset. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Lei Ma , Fuyuan Zhang , Jiyuan Sun , Minhui Xue , Bo Li , Felix Juefei-Xu , Chao Xie , Li Li , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Yadong Wang

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

Despite deep learning's success in chemistry, its impact is hindered by a lack of interpretability and an inability to resolve activity cliffs, where minor structural nuances trigger drastic property shifts. Current representation learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangsen Chen , Ruilong Wu , Yanyan Lan , Ting Ma , Yang Liu

Deep Learning (DL) is a machine learning procedure for artificial intelligence that analyzes the input data in detail by increasing neuron sizes and number of the hidden layers. DL has a popularity with the common improvements on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Gokhan Altan , Yakup Kutlu

Large language models hold promise as scientific assistants, yet existing agents either rely solely on algorithm evolution or on deep research in isolation, both of which face critical limitations. Pure algorithm evolution, as in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Gang Liu , Yihan Zhu , Jie Chen , Meng Jiang

Deep Learning (DL) is a surprisingly successful branch of machine learning. The success of DL is usually explained by focusing analysis on a particular recent algorithm and its traits. Instead, we propose that an explanation of the success…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Artem Kaznatcheev , Konrad Paul Kording

Deep learning has shown promising results on many machine learning tasks but DL models are often complex networks with large number of neurons and layers, and recently, complex layer structures known as building blocks. Finding the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Jayanta K Dutta , Jiayi Liu , Unmesh Kurup , Mohak Shah

Deep Learning (DL) systems are rapidly being adopted in safety and security critical domains, urgently calling for ways to test their correctness and robustness. Testing of DL systems has traditionally relied on manual collection and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jinhan Kim , Robert Feldt , Shin Yoo

As deep learning models are widely used in software systems, test generation plays a crucial role in assessing the quality of such models before deployment. To date, the most advanced test generators rely on generative AI to synthesize…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Xingcheng Chen , Oliver Weissl , Andrea Stocco

Context: Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in critical applications, where resilience against adversarial inputs is paramount. However, whether coverage-based or confidence-based, existing test prioritization methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sheikh Md Mushfiqur Rahman , Nasir Eisty

Due to the widespread application of deep neural networks~(DNNs) in safety-critical tasks, deep learning testing has drawn increasing attention. During the testing process, test cases that have been fuzzed or selected using test metrics are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Dong Huang , Qingwen Bu , Yahao Qing , Yichao Fu , Heming Cui

Despite impressive capabilities and outstanding performance, deep neural networks (DNNs) have captured increasing public concern about their security problems, due to their frequently occurred erroneous behaviors. Therefore, it is necessary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Haibo Jin , Ruoxi Chen , Haibin Zheng , Jinyin Chen , Yao Cheng , Yue Yu , Xianglong Liu

Automatically detecting software vulnerabilities in source code is an important problem that has attracted much attention. In particular, deep learning-based vulnerability detectors, or DL-based detectors, are attractive because they do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Zhen Li , Jing Tang , Deqing Zou , Qian Chen , Shouhuai Xu , Chao Zhang , Yichen Li , Hai Jin

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

Deep learning (DL) models have achieved paradigm-changing performance in many fields with high dimensional data, such as images, audio, and text. However, the black-box nature of deep neural networks is a barrier not just to adoption in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Parmita Mehta , Stephen Portillo , Magdalena Balazinska , Andrew Connolly

Deep learning (DL) defines a data-driven programming paradigm that automatically composes the system decision logic from the training data. In company with the data explosion and hardware acceleration during the past decade, DL achieves…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-14 Xiaoning Du , Xiaofei Xie , Yi Li , Lei Ma , Jianjun Zhao , Yang Liu

Based on its great successes in inference and denosing tasks, Dictionary Learning (DL) and its related sparse optimization formulations have garnered a lot of research interest. While most solutions have focused on single layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Wen Tang , Emilie Chouzenoux , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Hamid Krim

Nowadays, we are witnessing an increasing demand in both corporates and academia for exploiting Deep Learning (DL) to solve complex real-world problems. A DL program encodes the network structure of a desirable DL model and the process by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Amin Nikanjam , Houssem Ben Braiek , Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Foutse Khomh