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Relevance judgments are crucial for evaluating information retrieval systems, but traditional human-annotated labels are time-consuming and expensive. As a result, many researchers turn to automatic alternatives to accelerate method…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Naghmeh Farzi , Laura Dietz

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

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

Automated machine learning (AutoML) and deep learning (DL) are two cutting-edge paradigms used to solve a myriad of inductive learning tasks. In spite of their successes, little guidance exists for when to choose one approach over the other…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Joseph D. Romano , Trang T. Le , Weixuan Fu , Jason H. Moore

The reliability of software that has a Deep Neural Network (DNN) as a component is urgently important today given the increasing number of critical applications being deployed with DNNs. The need for reliability raises a need for rigorous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Swaroopa Dola , Matthew B. Dwyer , Mary Lou Soffa

One approach to explaining the hierarchical levels of understanding within a machine learning model is the symbolic method of inductive logic programming (ILP), which is data efficient and capable of learning first-order logic rules that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Andreas Bueff , Vaishak Belle

The growing deployment of deep learning models in real-world environments has intensified the need for efficient inference under strict latency and resource constraints. To meet these demands, dynamic deep learning systems (DDLSs) have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ravishka Rathnasuriya , Wei Yang

Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and frequent, highlighting the importance of network intrusion detection systems. This paper explores the potential and challenges of using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wanrong Yang , Alberto Acuto , Yihang Zhou , Dominik Wojtczak

Fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) often exhibit overconfidence, particularly when trained on small datasets, resulting in poor calibration and inaccurate uncertainty estimates. Evidential Deep Learning (EDL), an uncertainty-aware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Yawei Li , David Rügamer , Bernd Bischl , Mina Rezaei

This paper proposes an introspective deep metric learning (IDML) framework for uncertainty-aware comparisons of images. Conventional deep metric learning methods focus on learning a discriminative embedding to describe the semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chengkun Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Interpretability, explainability and transparency are key issues to introducing Artificial Intelligence methods in many critical domains: This is important due to ethical concerns and trust issues strongly connected to reliability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 George A. Vouros

This paper reviews the entire engineering process of trustworthy Machine Learning (ML) algorithms designed to equip critical systems with advanced analytics and decision functions. We start from the fundamental principles of ML and describe…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Juliette Mattioli , Agnes Delaborde , Souhaiel Khalfaoui , Freddy Lecue , Henri Sohier , Frederic Jurie

Providing explanations for deep neural network (DNN) models is crucial for their use in security-sensitive domains. A plethora of interpretation models have been proposed to help users understand the inner workings of DNNs: how does a DNN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Xinyang Zhang , Ningfei Wang , Hua Shen , Shouling Ji , Xiapu Luo , Ting Wang

The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to cybersecurity challenges has gained traction in industry and academia, partially as a result of widespread malware attacks on critical systems such as cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Subash Neupane , Jesse Ables , William Anderson , Sudip Mittal , Shahram Rahimi , Ioana Banicescu , Maria Seale

Over the past decade, Deep Learning (DL) has become an integral part of our daily lives. This surge in DL usage has heightened the need for developing reliable DL software systems. Given that fault localization is a critical task in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

Reliable uncertainty estimation has become a crucial requirement for the industrial deployment of deep learning algorithms, particularly in high-risk applications such as autonomous driving and medical diagnosis. However, mainstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Junyu Gao , Mengyuan Chen , Liangyu Xiang , Changsheng Xu

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

The feasibility of deep neural networks (DNNs) to address data stream problems still requires intensive study because of the static and offline nature of conventional deep learning approaches. A deep continual learning algorithm, namely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Andri Ashfahani , Mahardhika Pratama

Evaluation of Bayesian deep learning (BDL) methods is challenging. We often seek to evaluate the methods' robustness and scalability, assessing whether new tools give `better' uncertainty estimates than old ones. These evaluations are…

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