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One of the fastest evolving field among teaching and learning research is students' performance evaluation. Computer based testing systems are increasingly adopted by universities. However, the implementation and maintenance of such a…

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A fundamental assumption of most machine learning algorithms is that the training and test data are drawn from the same underlying distribution. However, this assumption is violated in almost all practical applications: machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Marvin Zhang , Henrik Marklund , Nikita Dhawan , Abhishek Gupta , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn

Automated software testing has significant potential to enhance efficiency and reliability within software development processes. However, its broader adoption faces considerable challenges, particularly concerning alignment between test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Fanyu Wang , Chetan Arora , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Kaicheng Huang , Aldeida Aleti

A self-adaptive software system modifies its behavior at runtime in response to changes within the system or in its execution environment. The fulfillment of the system requirements needs to be guaranteed even in the presence of adverse…

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

The emergence of new technologies in software testing has increased the automation and flexibility of the testing process. In this context, the adoption of agents in software testing remains an active research area in which various agent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Pavithra Perumal Kumaresen , Mirgita Frasheri , Eduard Enoiu

Current interest in deep learning captures the attention of many programmers and researchers. Unfortunately, the lack of a unified schema for developing deep learning models results in methodological inconsistencies, unclear documentation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sebastian Chwilczyński , Kacper Trębacz , Karol Cyganik , Mateusz Małecki , Dariusz Brzezinski

Due to the increasing sophistication of web attacks, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) have to be tested and updated regularly to resist the relentless flow of web attacks. In practice, using a brute-force attack to discover vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Mohammadhossein Amouei , Mohsen Rezvani , Mansoor Fateh

Developing real-time automated test systems for embedded control systems has been a real problem. Some engineers and scientists have used customized software and hardware as a solution, which can be very expensive and time consuming to…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jon Hawkins , Haung V. Nguyen , Reginald B. Howard

In recent years, the interest in developing adaptive solutions for online testing has grown significantly in the industry. While the advances related to this relative new technology have been developed in multiple domains, it lacks in the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-16 Da Xu , Bo Yang

Self-Taught Reasoners (STaR), synonymously known as Rejection sampling Fine-Tuning (RFT), is an integral part of the training pipeline of self-improving reasoning Language Models (LMs). The self-improving mechanism often employs random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Woosung Koh , Wonbeen Oh , Jaein Jang , MinHyung Lee , Hyeongjin Kim , Ah Yeon Kim , Joonkee Kim , Junghyun Lee , Taehyeon Kim , Se-Young Yun

In many applications, a large number of features are collected with the goal to identify a few important ones. Sometimes, these features lie in a metric space with a known distance matrix, which partially reflects their co-importance…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-28 Xuechan Li , Anthony Sung , Jichun Xie

Adaptive Random Testing (ART) is an enhancement of Random Testing (RT), and aims to improve the RT failure-detection effectiveness by distributing test cases more evenly in the input domain. Many ART algorithms have been proposed, with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Rubing Huang , Chenhui Cui , Dave Towey , Weifeng Sun , Junlong Lian

Item Response Theory (IRT) is a well known method for assessing responses from humans in education and psychology. In education, IRT is used to infer student abilities and characteristics of test items from student responses. Interactions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Antti Keurulainen , Isak Westerlund , Oskar Keurulainen , Andrew Howes

In this work, we proposed a novel inferential procedure assisted by machine learning based adjustment for randomized control trials. The method was developed under the Rosenbaum's framework of exact tests in randomized experiments with…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-23 Han Yu , Alan D. Hutson , Xiaoyi Ma

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

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

Automatic generators of GUI tests often fail to generate semantically relevant test cases, and thus miss important test scenarios. To address this issue, test adaptation techniques can be used to automatically generate semantically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Leonardo Mariani , Mauro Pezzè , Valerio Terragni , Daniele Zuddas

We propose Adaptive Randomized Smoothing (ARS) to certify the predictions of our test-time adaptive models against adversarial examples. ARS extends the analysis of randomized smoothing using $f$-Differential Privacy to certify the adaptive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Saiyue Lyu , Shadab Shaikh , Frederick Shpilevskiy , Evan Shelhamer , Mathias Lécuyer

Modern software applications demand efficient and reliable testing methodologies to ensure robust user interface functionality. This paper introduces an autonomous reinforcement learning (RL) agent integrated within a Behavior-Driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ali Hassaan Mughal