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Deep learning has become an increasingly common technique for various control problems, such as robotic arm manipulation, robot navigation, and autonomous vehicles. However, the downside of using deep neural networks to learn control…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Sampo Kuutti , Saber Fallah , Richard Bowden

This paper addresses the problem of checking invariant properties for a large class of symbolic transition systems, defined by a combination of SMT theories and quantifiers. State variables can be functions from an uninterpreted sort…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Gianluca Redondi , Alessandro Cimatti , Alberto Griggio , Kenneth McMillan

Differential testing to solve the oracle problem has been applied in many scenarios where multiple supposedly equivalent implementations exist, such as multiple implementations of a C compiler. If the multiple systems disagree on the output…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-29 Christian Kästner

When are two algorithms the same? How can we be sure a recently proposed algorithm is novel, and not a minor twist on an existing method? In this paper, we present a framework for reasoning about equivalence between a broad class of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Shipu Zhao , Laurent Lessard , Madeleine Udell

The challenge of automatically determining the correctness of test executions is referred to as the test oracle problem and is one of the key remaining issues for automated testing. The goal in this paper is to solve the test oracle problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Foivos Tsimpourlas , Ajitha Rajan , Miltiadis Allamanis

Metamorphic Testing (MT) alleviates the oracle problem by defining oracles based on metamorphic relations (MRs), that govern multiple related inputs and their outputs. However, designing MRs is challenging, as it requires domain-specific…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Congying Xu , Valerio Terragni , Hengcheng Zhu , Jiarong Wu , Shing-Chi Cheung

Algorithm selection, aiming to identify the best algorithm for a given problem, plays a pivotal role in continuous black-box optimization. A common approach involves representing optimization functions using a set of features, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Gašper Petelin , Gjorgjina Cenikj

We can never be certain that a software system is correct simply by testing it, but with every additional successful test we become less uncertain about its correctness. In absence of source code or elaborate specifications and models,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Neil Walkinshaw , Gordon Fraser

In the context of superintelligent AI systems, the term "oracle" has two meanings. One refers to modular systems queried for domain-specific tasks. Another usage, referring to a class of systems which may be useful for addressing the value…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Gopal P. Sarma , Nick J. Hay

Machine Learning (ML) has become an integral part of our society, commonly used in critical domains such as finance, healthcare, and transportation. Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate not only whether ML models make correct predictions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Steven Cho , Seaton Cousins-Baxter , Stefano Ruberto , Valerio Terragni

A unit test is a method for verifying the accuracy and the proper functioning of a portion of a program. This work consists to study the relation and the approaches to test Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) programs and to propose a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-12-21 Martin Levesque

The goal in function property testing is to determine whether a black-box Boolean function has a certain property or is epsilon-far from having that property. The performance of the algorithm is judged by how many calls need to be made to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mark Hillery , Erika Andersson

Machine Learning models face increased concerns regarding the storage of personal user data and adverse impacts of corrupted data like backdoors or systematic bias. Machine Unlearning can address these by allowing post-hoc deletion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Shashwat Goel , Ameya Prabhu , Amartya Sanyal , Ser-Nam Lim , Philip Torr , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

We provide a systematic approach for testing self-organization (SO) algorithms. The main challenges for such a testing domain are the strongly ramified state space, the possible error masking, the interleaving of mechanisms, and the oracle…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Benedikt Eberhardinger , Gerrit Anders , Hella Seebach , Florian Siefert , Alexander Knapp , Wolfgang Reif

Many of the computing systems programmed using Machine Learning are opaque: it is difficult to know why they do what they do or how they work. The Explainable Artificial Intelligence research program aims to develop analytic techniques with…

General Literature · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Carlos Zednik

The search for "a quantum needle in a quantum haystack" is a metaphor for the problem of finding out which one of a permissible set of unitary mappings---the oracles---is implemented by a given black box. Grover's algorithm solves this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-19 Arun Sehrawat , Le Huy Nguyen , Berthold-Georg Englert

We demonstrate that users may be prone to place an inordinate amount of trust in black box algorithms that are framed as intelligent. We deploy an algorithm that purportedly assesses the positivity and negativity of a users' writing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Aaron Springer , Victoria Hollis , Steve Whittaker

In spite of the high accuracy of the existing optical mark reading (OMR) systems and devices, a few restrictions remain existent. In this work, we aim to reduce the restrictions of multiple choice questions (MCQ) within tests. We use an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Mahmoud Afifi , Khaled F. Hussain

Security verification of communication protocols in industrial and safety-critical systems is challenging because implementations are often proprietary, accessible only as black boxes, and too complex for manual modeling. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Stefan Marksteiner , Mikael Sjödin , Marjan Sirjani

Automated UI testing is an important component of the continuous integration process of software development. A modern web-based UI is an amalgam of reports from dozens of microservices written by multiple teams. Queries on a page that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Zhe Yu , Fahmid M. Fahid , Tim Menzies , Gregg Rothermel , Kyle Patrick , Snehit Cherian
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