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Deep Learning (DL) is prevalently used in various industries to improve decision-making and automate processes, driven by the ever-evolving DL libraries and compilers. The correctness of DL systems is crucial for trust in DL applications.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiawei Liu , Jinjun Peng , Yuyao Wang , Lingming Zhang

Nowadays, we are witnessing an increasing effort to improve the performance and trustworthiness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), with the aim to enable their adoption in safety critical systems such as self-driving cars. Multiple testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Houssem Ben Braiek , Foutse Khomh

Database Management System (DBMS) is the key component for data-intensive applications. Recently, researchers propose many tools to comprehensively test DBMS systems for finding various bugs. However, these tools only cover a small subset…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Yu Liang , Hong Hu

Deep learning (DL) systems are increasingly applied to safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving cars. It is of significant importance to ensure the reliability and robustness of DL systems. Existing testing methodologies always…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Jianmin Guo , Yu Jiang , Yue Zhao , Quan Chen , Jiaguang Sun

Deep Learning (DL) systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, yet they remain vulnerable to robustness issues that can lead to significant failures. While numerous Test Input Generators (TIGs) have been developed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Seif Mzoughi , Ahmed Haj yahmed , Mohamed Elshafei , Foutse Khomh , Diego Elias Costa

Debugging ML software (i.e., the detection, localization and fixing of faults) poses unique challenges compared to traditional software largely due to the probabilistic nature and heterogeneity of its development process. Various methods…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Thanh-Dat Nguyen , Haoye Tian , Bach Le , Patanamon Thongtanunam , Shane McIntosh

Today, Deep Learning (DL) enhances almost every industrial sector, including safety-critical areas. The next generation of safety standards will define appropriate verification techniques for DL-based applications and propose adequate fault…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Michael Beyer , Andrey Morozov , Emil Valiev , Christoph Schorn , Lydia Gauerhof , Kai Ding , Klaus Janschek

The pervasive nature of software vulnerabilities has emerged as a primary factor for the surge in cyberattacks. Traditional vulnerability detection methods, including rule-based, signature-based, manual review, static, and dynamic analysis,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Md Nizam Uddin , Yihe Zhang , Xiali Hei

Deep Learning methods are becoming prominent in automated software bug detection; however, they lack the global understanding of the given code. Consequently, their performance tends to degrade, especially when they are applied to large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Srita Padmanabhuni , Bhargavi Karuturi , Jerusha Karen Indupalli , Santhan Reddy Chilla , Vivek Yelleti

Large Language Model (LLM) libraries have emerged as the foundational infrastructure powering today's AI revolution, serving as the backbone for LLM deployment, inference optimization, fine-tuning, and production serving across diverse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Weipeng Jiang , Xiaoyu Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Jiongchi Yu , Yuhan Zhi , Shiqing Ma , Chao Shen

Deep learning (DL) allows computer models to learn, visualize, optimize, refine, and predict data. To understand its present state, examining the most recent advancements and applications of deep learning across various domains is…

Bug localization is a crucial aspect of software maintenance, running through the entire software lifecycle. Information retrieval-based bug localization (IRBL) identifies buggy code based on bug reports, expediting the bug resolution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Feifei Niu , Chuanyi Li , Kui Liu , Xin Xia , David Lo

Performance optimization of AI infrastructure is key to the fast adoption of large language models (LLMs). The PyTorch compiler (torch.compile), a core optimization tool for deep learning (DL) models (including LLMs), has received due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Meiziniu Li , Dongze Li , Jianmeng Liu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Deep learning (DL) models of code have recently reported great progress for vulnerability detection. In some cases, DL-based models have outperformed static analysis tools. Although many great models have been proposed, we do not yet have a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Benjamin Steenhoek , Md Mahbubur Rahman , Richard Jiles , Wei Le

Recently, several JavaScript-based deep learning frameworks have emerged, making it possible to perform deep learning tasks directly in browsers. However, little is known on what and how well we can do with these frameworks for deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Yun Ma , Dongwei Xiang , Shuyu Zheng , Deyu Tian , Xuanzhe Liu

Deep Learning (DL) is finding its way into a growing number of mobile software applications. These software applications, named as DL based mobile applications (abbreviated as mobile DL apps) integrate DL models trained using large-scale…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Zhenpeng Chen , Huihan Yao , Yiling Lou , Yanbin Cao , Yuanqiang Liu , Haoyu Wang , Xuanzhe Liu

In the past decade, Deep Learning (DL) systems have been widely deployed in various domains to facilitate our daily life. Meanwhile, it is extremely challenging to ensure the correctness of DL systems (e.g., due to their intrinsic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jiawei Liu , Yuxiang Wei , Sen Yang , Yinlin Deng , Lingming Zhang

When deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), developers often convert models from one deep learning framework to another (e.g., TensorFlow to PyTorch). However, this process is error-prone and can impact target model accuracy. To identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Nikolaos Louloudakis , Perry Gibson , José Cano , Ajitha Rajan

Surprisingly promising results have been achieved by deep learning (DL) systems in recent years. Many of these achievements have been reached in academic settings, or by large technology companies with highly skilled research groups and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Anders Arpteg , Björn Brinne , Luka Crnkovic-Friis , Jan Bosch

Deep Learning (DL) libraries like TensorFlow and Pytorch simplify machine learning (ML) model development but are prone to bugs due to their complex design. Bug-finding techniques exist, but without precise API specifications, they produce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Facundo Molina , M M Abid Naziri , Feiran Qin , Alessandra Gorla , Marcelo d'Amorim