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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

While deep generative models~(DGMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in capturing complex data distributions, they consistently fail to learn constraints that encode domain knowledge and thus require constraint integration. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ruoyan Li , Dipti Ranjan Sahu , Guy Van den Broeck , Zhe Zeng

Attribution explanation is a typical approach for explaining deep neural networks (DNNs), inferring an importance or contribution score for each input variable to the final output. In recent years, numerous attribution methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Huiqi Deng , Hongbin Pei , Quanshi Zhang , Mengnan Du

Neural networks used for image classification tasks in critical applications must be tested with sufficient realistic data to assure their correctness. To effectively test an image classification neural network, one must obtain realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Taejoon Byun , Abhishek Vijayakumar , Sanjai Rayadurgam , Darren Cofer

The increasing deployment of deep learning systems requires systematic evaluation of their reliability in real-world scenarios. Traditional gradient-based adversarial attacks introduce small perturbations that rarely correspond to realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Oliver Weißl , Vincenzo Riccio , Severin Kacianka , Andrea Stocco

Over the past years, deep generative models have achieved a new level of performance. Generated data has become difficult, if not impossible, to be distinguished from real data. While there are plenty of use cases that benefit from this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Ning Yu , Vladislav Skripniuk , Dingfan Chen , Larry Davis , Mario Fritz

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, in particular, Machine Learning (ML) have emerged to be utilized in various applications due to their capability to learn how to solve complex problems. Over the last decade, rapid advances in ML have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani , Mahdi Taheri , Jaan Raik , Masoud Daneshtalab , Maksim Jenihhin

The inputs of deep neural network (DNN) from real-world data usually come with uncertainties. Yet, it is challenging to propagate the uncertainty in the input features to the DNN predictions at a low computational cost. This work employs a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-14 Weiqi Ji , Zhuyin Ren , Chung K. Law

Background. Commonly, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) generalize well on samples drawn from a distribution similar to that of the training set. However, DNNs' predictions are brittle and unreliable when the test samples are drawn from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Matan Haroush , Tzviel Frostig , Ruth Heller , Daniel Soudry

While deep neural networks (DNNs) are used for prediction, inference on DNN-estimated subject-specific means for categorical or exponential family outcomes remains underexplored. We address this by proposing a DNN estimator under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Xuran Meng , Yi Li

For deep neural networks (DNNs) to be used in safety-critical autonomous driving tasks, it is desirable to monitor in operation time if the input for the DNN is similar to the data used in DNN training. While recent results in monitoring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Chih-Hong Cheng

Deep neural networks (DNNs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in many areas, including computer vision, system configuration, and question-answering. However, DNNs are expensive to develop, both in intellectual effort (e.g., devising new…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 James C. Davis , Purvish Jajal , Wenxin Jiang , Taylor R. Schorlemmer , Nicholas Synovic , George K. Thiruvathukal

Deep Neural Network(DNN) techniques have been prevalent in software engineering. They are employed to faciliatate various software engineering tasks and embedded into many software applications. However, analyzing and understanding their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Xufan Zhang , Ziyue Yin , Yang Feng , Qingkai Shi , Jia Liu , Zhenyu Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become ubiquitous thanks to their remarkable ability to model complex patterns across various domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, etc. While large DNN models are often more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Omkar Shende , Gayathri Ananthanarayanan , Marcello Traiola

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are an emerging research field. This specialized Deep Neural Network (DNN) architecture is capable of processing graph structured data and bridges the gap between graph processing and Deep Learning (DL). As…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jana Vatter , Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are increasingly evaluated using new replication test datasets, which have been carefully created to be similar to older and popular benchmark datasets. However, running counter to expectations, DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Esla Timothy Anzaku , Haohan Wang , Arnout Van Messem , Wesley De Neve

Deep learning achieves remarkable performance on pattern recognition, but can be vulnerable to defects of some important properties such as robustness and security. This tutorial is based on a stream of research conducted since the summer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Nicolas Berthier , Youcheng Sun , Wei Huang , Yanghao Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang

Despite the large number of sophisticated deep neural network (DNN) verification algorithms, DNN verifier developers, users, and researchers still face several challenges. First, verifier developers must contend with the rapidly changing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 David Shriver , Sebastian Elbaum , Matthew B. Dwyer

One significant challenge of exploiting Graph neural networks (GNNs) in real-life scenarios is that they are always treated as black boxes, therefore leading to the requirement of interpretability. To address this, model-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Xiao Yue , Guangzhi Qu , Lige Gan

Testing in production-like test environments is an essential part of quality assurance processes in many industries. Provisioning of such test environments, for information-intensive services, involves setting up databases that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Razieh Behjati , Erik Arisholm , Chao Tan , Margrethe M. Bedregal