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With software systems becoming increasingly pervasive and autonomous, our ability to test for their quality is severely challenged. Many systems are called to operate in uncertain and highly-changing environment, not rarely required to make…

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Randomized experiments play a major role in data-driven decision making across many different fields and disciplines. In medicine, for example, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the backbone of clinical trial methodology for testing…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-30 Andrew W. Correia

In this paper, we do automatic correctness assessment for patches generated by program repair systems. We consider the human-written patch as ground truth oracle and randomly generate tests based on it, a technique proposed by Shamshiri et…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 He Ye , Matias Martinez , Martin Monperrus

Adversarial testing of large language models (LLMs) is crucial for their safe and responsible deployment. We introduce a novel approach for automated generation of adversarial evaluation datasets to test the safety of LLM generations on new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Bhaktipriya Radharapu , Kevin Robinson , Lora Aroyo , Preethi Lahoti

Software testing is an important and valuable part of the software development life cycle. Due to time, cost and other circumstances, exhaustive testing is not feasible that's why there is a need to automate the software testing process.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2011-06-15 Praveen Ranjan Srivastava , Km Baby

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for evaluating the effect of new medical treatments. Treatments must pass stringent regulatory conditions in order to be approved for widespread use, yet even after the regulatory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-13 Omer Noy Klein , Alihan Hüyük , Ron Shamir , Uri Shalit , Mihaela van der Schaar

Neural networks have become state-of-the-art for computer vision problems because of their ability to efficiently model complex functions from large amounts of data. While neural networks can be shown to perform well empirically for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Kyle D. Julian , Ritchie Lee , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

This paper proposes an adaptive random experiment design (ARED) algorithm that can be applied to optimize the multiple factors and levels experiments. The algorithm takes real-time model error as the adaptive condition, and outputs a model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Zhou Qiao , Duan Xiaochang , Tang Wei

Executing large test suites is time and resource consuming, sometimes impossible, and such test suites typically contain many redundant test cases. Hence, test case minimization is used to remove redundant test cases that are unlikely to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Rongqi Pan , Taher A. Ghaleb , Lionel Briand

Determining possible failure scenarios is a critical step in the evaluation of autonomous vehicle systems. Real-world vehicle testing is commonly employed for autonomous vehicle validation, but the costs and time requirements are high.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Anthony Corso , Peter Du , Katherine Driggs-Campbell , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for comparing the effectiveness of a new treatment to the current one (the control). Most RCTs allocate the patients to the treatment group and the control group by uniform…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-22 Onur Atan , William R. Zame , Mihaela van der Schaar

It is imperative to safeguard computer applications and information systems against the growing number of cyber-attacks. Automated software testing tools can be developed to quickly analyze many lines of code and detect vulnerabilities by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 João Vitorino , Tiago Dias , Tiago Fonseca , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Industrial robots are important machines applied in numerous modern industries that execute repetitive tasks with high accuracy, replacing or supporting dangerous jobs. In this kind of system, with increased complexity in which cost is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Marcela G. dos Santos , Fabio Petrillo

Solving real-world manipulation tasks requires robots to have a repertoire of skills applicable to a wide range of circumstances. When using learning-based methods to acquire such skills, the key challenge is to obtain training data that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Kuan Fang , Toki Migimatsu , Ajay Mandlekar , Li Fei-Fei , Jeannette Bohg

Software is omnipresent within all factors of society. It is thus important to ensure that software are well tested to mitigate bad user experiences as well as the potential for severe financial and human losses. Software testing is however…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jason Wang , Basem Suleiman , Muhammad Johan Alibasa

We propose the holdout randomization test (HRT), an approach to feature selection using black box predictive models. The HRT is a specialized version of the conditional randomization test (CRT; Candes et al., 2018) that uses data splitting…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-23 Wesley Tansey , Victor Veitch , Haoran Zhang , Raul Rabadan , David M. Blei

Data from multifactor HCI experiments often violates the normality assumption of parametric tests (i.e., nonconforming data). The Aligned Rank Transform (ART) is a popular nonparametric analysis technique that can find main and interaction…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-02-24 Lisa A. Elkin , Matthew Kay , James J. Higgins , Jacob O. Wobbrock

In this work, we propose a self-improving artificial intelligence system to enhance the safety performance of reinforcement learning (RL)-based autonomous driving (AD) agents using black-box verification methods. RL algorithms have become…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Resul Dagdanov , Halil Durmus , Nazim Kemal Ure

Lean processes focus on doing only necessery things in an efficient way. Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning offer new opportunities to optimizing processes. The presented approach demonstrates an improvement of the test process by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Alexander Poth , Quirin Beck , Andreas Riel

As large language models (LLMs) generate more human-like texts, concerns about the side effects of AI-generated texts (AIGT) have grown. So, researchers have developed methods for detecting AIGT. However, two challenges remain. First, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Hyeonchu Park , Byungjun Kim , Bugeun Kim