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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are notoriously hard to understand and difficult to defend. Extracting representative paths (including the neuron activation values and the connections between neurons) from DNNs using software engineering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Fangzhen Zhao , Chenyi Zhang , Naipeng Dong , Ming Li , Jinxiao Shan

This paper reviews recent studies in understanding neural-network representations and learning neural networks with interpretable/disentangled middle-layer representations. Although deep neural networks have exhibited superior performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Quanshi Zhang , Song-Chun Zhu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), as valuable intellectual property, face unauthorized use. Existing protections, such as digital watermarking, are largely passive; they provide only post-hoc ownership verification and cannot actively prevent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Han Yang , Shaofeng Li , Tian Dong , Xiangyu Xu , Guangchi Liu , Zhen Ling

In this paper, we evaluate the quality of knowledge representations encoded in deep neural networks (DNNs) for 3D point cloud processing. We propose a method to disentangle the overall model vulnerability into the sensitivity to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Wen Shen , Qihan Ren , Dongrui Liu , Quanshi Zhang

As a new programming paradigm, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been increasingly deployed in practice, but the lack of robustness hinders their applications in safety-critical domains. While there are techniques for verifying DNNs with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jiaxiang Liu , Yunhan Xing , Xiaomu Shi , Fu Song , Zhiwu Xu , Zhong Ming

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer a real-time solution for the inversion of borehole resistivity measurements to approximate forward and inverse operators. It is possible to use extremely large DNNs to approximate the operators, but it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-05 M. Shahriari , D. Pardo , S. Kargaran , T. Teijeiro

Deep neural networks (DNN) have been deployed in many software systems to assist in various classification tasks. In company with the fantastic effectiveness in classification, DNNs could also exhibit incorrect behaviors and result in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yang Feng , Qingkai Shi , Xinyu Gao , Jun Wan , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) with high expressiveness have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many tasks. However, their distributed feature representations are difficult to interpret semantically. In this work, human-interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp

Deep Learning has been very successful in many application domains. However, its usefulness in the context of network intrusion detection has not been systematically investigated. In this paper, we report a case study on using deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Gabriel C. Fernandez , Shouhuai Xu

Providing safety guarantees for autonomous systems is difficult as these systems operate in complex environments that require the use of learning-enabled components, such as deep neural networks (DNNs) for visual perception. DNNs are hard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Corina Pasareanu , Ravi Mangal , Divya Gopinath , Huafeng Yu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become key components of many safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving and medical diagnosis. However, DNNs have been shown suffering from poor robustness because of their susceptibility to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Wenjie Wan , Zhaodi Zhang , Yiwei Zhu , Min Zhang , Fu Song

Deep Neural Networks in NLP have enabled systems to learn complex non-linear relationships. One of the major bottlenecks towards being able to use DNNs for real world applications is their characterization as black boxes. To solve this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Subhadip Maji , Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury , Raghav Bali , Vamsi M Bhandaru

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been used to create models for many complex analysis problems like image recognition and medical diagnosis. DNNs are a popular tool within machine learning due to their ability to model complex patterns and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Parth Patil , Ben Boardley , Jack Gardner , Emily Loiselle , Deerajkumar Parthipan

Nonlinear methods such as Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are the gold standard for various challenging machine learning problems, e.g., image classification, natural language processing or human action recognition. Although these methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Grégoire Montavon , Sebastian Bach , Alexander Binder , Wojciech Samek , Klaus-Robert Müller

Inference accuracy of deep neural networks (DNNs) is a crucial performance metric, but can vary greatly in practice subject to actual test datasets and is typically unknown due to the lack of ground truth labels. This has raised significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Zhihui Shao , Jianyi Yang , Shaolei Ren

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown exceptional performances in a wide range of tasks and have become the go-to method for problems requiring high-level predictive power. There has been extensive research on how DNNs arrive at their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mattias Luber , Anton Thielmann , Benjamin Säfken

Deep neural networks (DNNs) demonstrate superior performance in various fields, including scrutiny and security. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Several defenses were proposed in the past to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Akshaj Veldanda , Siddharth Garg

We investigate the internal representations that a recurrent neural network (RNN) uses while learning to recognize a regular formal language. Specifically, we train a RNN on positive and negative examples from a regular language, and ask if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Joshua J. Michalenko , Ameesh Shah , Abhinav Verma , Richard G. Baraniuk , Swarat Chaudhuri , Ankit B. Patel

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

We investigate the potential of applying (D)NN ((deep) neural networks) for approximating nonlinear mappings arising in the finite element discretization of nonlinear PDEs (partial differential equations). As an application, we apply the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Tuyen Tran , Aidan Hamilton , Maricela Best McKay , Benjamin Quiring , Panayot S. Vassilevski