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Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, many of them with substantial safety and security concerns. This paper introduces DeepCheck, a new approach for validating DNNs based on core ideas from program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Divya Gopinath , Kaiyuan Wang , Mengshi Zhang , Corina S. Pasareanu , Sarfraz Khurshid

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) represent a performance-hungry application. Floating-Point (FP) and custom floating-point-like arithmetic satisfies this hunger. While there is need for speed, inference in DNNs does not seem to have any need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Christoph Lauter , Anastasia Volkova

For Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to become useful in safety-critical applications, such as self-driving cars and disease diagnosis, they must be stable to perturbations in input and model parameters. Characterizing the sensitivity of a DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Naman Maheshwari , Nicholas Malaya , Scott Moe , Jaydeep P. Kulkarni , Sudhanva Gurumurthi

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have found numerous applications in various domains, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, facial recognition, and autonomous driving. However, DNN-based systems often suffer from reliability issues due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Sigma Jahan , Mehil B Shah , Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed across distributed and resource-constrained platforms, such as System-on-Chip (SoC) accelerators and edge-cloud systems. DNNs are often partitioned and executed across heterogeneous…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mukta Debnath , Krishnendu Guha , Debasri Saha , Amlan Chakrabarti , Susmita Sur-Kolay

As Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are widely adopted in clouds to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNN), such virtualization environments have posed many new security issues. This work investigates the integrity of DNN FPGA…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yukui Luo , Cheng Gongye , Yunsi Fei , Xiaolin Xu

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are quickly gaining traction as a viable alternative to Deep Neural Networks (DNN). In comparison to DNNs, SNNs are more computationally powerful and provide superior energy efficiency. SNNs, while exciting at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Karthikeyan Nagarajan , Junde Li , Sina Sayyah Ensan , Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Sachhidh Kannan , Swaroop Ghosh

With the increased popularity of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), increases also the need for tools to assist developers in the DNN implementation, testing and debugging process. Several approaches have been proposed that automatically analyse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Nargiz Humbatova , Jinhan Kim , Gunel Jahangirova , Shin Yoo , Paolo Tonella

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as a promising learning paradigm in learning graph-structured data and have demonstrated wide success across various domains such as recommendation systems, social networks, and electronic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Ruixuan Wang , Fred Lin , Daniel Moore , Sriram Sankar , Xun Jiao

Verifying correctness of deep neural networks (DNNs) is challenging. We study a generic reachability problem for feed-forward DNNs which, for a given set of inputs to the network and a Lipschitz-continuous function over its outputs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Marta Kwiatkowska

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used in various application domains such as image processing, speech recognition, and natural language processing. However, testing DNN models may be challenging due to the complexity and size of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Zohreh Aghababaeyan , Manel Abdellatif , Mahboubeh Dadkhah , Lionel Briand

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of applications, while they are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which motivates the evaluation and benchmark of model robustness. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jun Guo , Wei Bao , Jiakai Wang , Yuqing Ma , Xinghai Gao , Gang Xiao , Aishan Liu , Jian Dong , Xianglong Liu , Wenjun Wu

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have improved the quality of several non-safety related products in the past years. However, before DNNs should be deployed to safety-critical applications, their robustness needs to be systematically analyzed. A…

Safety is a critical concern for the next generation of autonomy that is likely to rely heavily on deep neural networks for perception and control. Formally verifying the safety and robustness of well-trained DNNs and learning-enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Xiaodong Yang , Tom Yamaguchi , Hoang-Dung Tran , Bardh Hoxha , Taylor T Johnson , Danil Prokhorov

Deep neural networks (DNNs) demonstrate outstanding performance across most computer vision tasks. Some critical applications, such as autonomous driving or medical imaging, also require investigation into their behavior and the reasons…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Edouard Yvinec , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly , Xavier Fischer

Due to the widespread application of deep neural networks~(DNNs) in safety-critical tasks, deep learning testing has drawn increasing attention. During the testing process, test cases that have been fuzzed or selected using test metrics are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Dong Huang , Qingwen Bu , Yahao Qing , Yichao Fu , Heming Cui

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes applications, from self-driving cars to biometric authentication. However, their unpredictable and unreliable behaviors in real-world settings require new approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Firas Ben Hmida , Abderrahmen Amich , Ata Kaboudi , Birhanu Eshete

Research on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has focused on improving performance and accuracy for real-world deployments, leading to new models, such as Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), and optimization techniques, e.g., quantization and pruning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Alessio Colucci , Andreas Steininger , Muhammad Shafique

The ubiquity of deep neural networks (DNNs), cloud-based training, and transfer learning is giving rise to a new cybersecurity frontier in which unsecure DNNs have `structural malware' (i.e., compromised weights and activation pathways). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-05 N. Benjamin Erichson , Dane Taylor , Qixuan Wu , Michael W. Mahoney

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to maliciously generated adversarial examples. These examples are intentionally designed by making imperceptible perturbations and often mislead a DNN into making an incorrect prediction. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Mengchen Liu , Shixia Liu , Hang Su , Kelei Cao , Jun Zhu