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The utilisation of Deep Learning (DL) raises new challenges regarding its dependability in critical applications. Sound verification and validation methods are needed to assure the safe and reliable use of DL. However, state-of-the-art…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Xingyu Zhao , Wei Huang , Sven Schewe , Yi Dong , Xiaowei Huang

ML models are increasingly deployed in settings with real world interactions such as vehicles, but unfortunately, these models can fail in systematic ways. To prevent errors, ML engineering teams monitor and continuously improve these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Daniel Kang , Deepti Raghavan , Peter Bailis , Matei Zaharia

SystemVerilog Assertions (SVAs) are essential for verifying Register Transfer Level (RTL) designs, as they can be embedded into key functional paths to detect unintended behaviours. During simulation, assertion failures occur when the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Jie Zhou , Youshu Ji , Ning Wang , Yuchen Hu , Xinyao Jiao , Bingkun Yao , Xinwei Fang , Shuai Zhao , Nan Guan , Zhe Jiang

Software vulnerability detection is generally supported by automated static analysis tools, which have recently been reinforced by deep learning (DL) models. However, despite the superior performance of DL-based approaches over rule-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yanjing Yang , Xin Zhou , Runfeng Mao , Jinwei Xu , Lanxin Yang , Yu Zhangm , Haifeng Shen , He Zhang

As the adoption of Deep Learning (DL) systems continues to rise, an increasing number of approaches are being proposed to test these systems, localise faults within them, and repair those faults. The best attestation of effectiveness for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Gunel Jahangirova , Nargiz Humbatova , Jinhan Kim , Shin Yoo , Paolo Tonella

Precisely modeling complex systems like cyber-physical systems is challenging, which often render model-based system verification techniques like model checking infeasible. To overcome this challenge, we propose a method called LAR to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Shengchao Qin , Cyrille Jegourel

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are prominent due to their superior performance in many fields. The deep-learning-as-a-service (DLaaS) paradigm enables individuals and organizations (clients) to outsource their DNN learning tasks to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Boxiang Dong , Bo Zhang , Hui , Wang

With the increasing adoption of Deep Learning (DL) for critical tasks, such as autonomous driving, the evaluation of the quality of systems that rely on DL has become crucial. Once trained, DL systems produce an output for any arbitrary…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vincenzo Riccio , Paolo Tonella

Deep Learning (DL) systems have proliferated in many applications, requiring specialized hardware accelerators and chips. In the nano-era, devices have become increasingly more susceptible to permanent and transient faults. Therefore, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Alessio Colucci , Andreas Steininger , Muhammad Shafique

The analysis of complex dynamic systems is a core research topic in formal methods and AI, and combined modelling of systems with data has gained increasing importance in applications such as business process management. In addition,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Paolo Felli , Marco Montali , Sarah Winkler

Nonlinear, adaptive, or otherwise complex control techniques are increasingly relied upon to ensure the safety of systems operating in uncertain environments. However, the nonlinearity of the resulting closed-loop system complicates…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-17 John F. Quindlen , Ufuk Topcu , Girish Chowdhary , Jonathan P. How

Reliability analysis aims at estimating the failure probability of an engineering system. It often requires multiple runs of a limit-state function, which usually relies on computationally intensive simulations. Traditionally, these…

Computation · Statistics 2024-01-22 Anderson V. Pires , Maliki Moustapha , Stefano Marelli , Bruno Sudret

Training deep learning (DL) models is a complex process, making it prone to silent errors that are challenging to detect and diagnose. This paper presents TRAINCHECK, a framework that takes a proactive checking approach to address silent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yuxuan Jiang , Ziming Zhou , Boyu Xu , Beijie Liu , Runhui Xu , Peng Huang

The growing application of deep neural networks in safety-critical domains makes the analysis of faults that occur in such systems of enormous importance. In this paper we introduce a large taxonomy of faults in deep learning (DL) systems.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Nargiz Humbatova , Gunel Jahangirova , Gabriele Bavota , Vincenzo Riccio , Andrea Stocco , Paolo Tonella

Vulnerability detectors based on deep learning (DL) models have proven their effectiveness in recent years. However, the shroud of opacity surrounding the decision-making process of these detectors makes it difficult for security analysts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Baijun Cheng , Shengming Zhao , Kailong Wang , Meizhen Wang , Guangdong Bai , Ruitao Feng , Yao Guo , Lei Ma , Haoyu Wang

With the development of deep learning (DL) techniques, rotating machinery intelligent diagnosis has gone through tremendous progress with verified success and the classification accuracies of many DL-based intelligent diagnosis algorithms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Zhibin Zhao , Tianfu Li , Jingyao Wu , Chuang Sun , Shibin Wang , Ruqiang Yan , Xuefeng Chen

While enjoying the great achievements brought by deep learning (DL), people are also worried about the decision made by DL models, since the high degree of non-linearity of DL models makes the decision extremely difficult to understand.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jinwen He , Kai Chen , Guozhu Meng , Jiangshan Zhang , Congyi Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are typically tested for accuracy relying on a set of unlabelled real world data (operational dataset), from which a subset is selected, manually labelled and used as test suite. This subset is required to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Antonio Guerriero , Roberto Pietrantuono , Stefano Russo

Saliency methods aim to explain the predictions of deep neural networks. These methods lack reliability when the explanation is sensitive to factors that do not contribute to the model prediction. We use a simple and common pre-processing…

The Dafny verifier provides strong correctness guarantees but often requires numerous manual helper assertions, creating a significant barrier to adoption. We investigate the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically infer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Álvaro Silva , Alexandra Mendes , Ruben Martins