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Deep learning-based code processing models have shown good performance for tasks such as predicting method names, summarizing programs, and comment generation. However, despite the tremendous progress, deep learning models are often prone…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Moshi Wei , Yuchao Huang , Jinqiu Yang , Junjie Wang , Song Wang

Machine learning techniques are immensely deployed in both industry and academy. Recent studies indicate that machine learning models used for classification tasks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which limits the usage of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yutong Gao , Yi Pan

The widespread adoption of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in important domains raises questions about the trustworthiness of DNN outputs. Even a highly accurate DNN will make mistakes some of the time, and in settings like self-driving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Yan Xiao , Ivan Beschastnikh , David S. Rosenblum , Changsheng Sun , Sebastian Elbaum , Yun Lin , Jin Song Dong

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

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have a wide range of applications, and software employing them must be thoroughly tested, especially in safety-critical domains. However, traditional software test coverage metrics cannot be applied directly to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Youcheng Sun , Xiaowei Huang , Daniel Kroening , James Sharp , Matthew Hill , Rob Ashmore

The reliability evaluation of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) executed on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) is a challenging problem since the hardware architecture is highly complex and the software frameworks are composed of many layers of…

Deep Neural Networks~(DNNs) have been widely deployed in software to address various tasks~(e.g., autonomous driving, medical diagnosis). However, they could also produce incorrect behaviors that result in financial losses and even threaten…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Dong Huang , Qingwen Bu , Yichao Fu , Yuhao Qing , Bocheng Xiao , Heming Cui

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play a crucial role in the field of artificial intelligence, and their security-related testing has been a prominent research focus. By inputting test cases, the behavior of models is examined for anomalies, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Wenkai Li , Xiaoqi Li , Yingjie Mao , Yishun Wang

As Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are increasingly being employed in safety-critical applications, it is important that they behave reliably in the face of hardware errors. Transient hardware errors may percolate undesirable state…

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

A classification technique incorporating a novel feature derivation method is proposed for predicting failure of a system or device with multivariate time series sensor data. We treat the multivariate time series sensor data as images for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Lanfa Frank Wang , Danjue Li

The methods of extracting image features are the key to many image processing tasks. At present, the most popular method is the deep neural network which can automatically extract robust features through end-to-end training instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Xiang Ma , Liangzhe Chen , Zhaohong Deng , Peng Xu , Qisheng Yan , Kup-Sze Choi , Shitong Wang

As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rapidly being adopted within large software systems, software developers are increasingly required to design, train, and deploy such models into the systems they develop. Consequently, testing and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Jinhan Kim , Nargiz Humbatova , Gunel Jahangirova , Paolo Tonella , Shin Yoo

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in safety-critical applications. Reliable fault analysis and mitigation are essential to ensure their functionality in harsh environments that contain high radiation levels. This study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Toon Vinck , Naïn Jonckers , Gert Dekkers , Jeffrey Prinzie , Peter Karsmakers

The growing use of deep neural networks in safety-critical applications makes it necessary to carry out adequate testing to detect and correct any incorrect behavior for corner case inputs before they can be actually used. Deep neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jasmine Sekhon , Cody Fleming

Deep neural networks often consist of a great number of trainable parameters for extracting powerful features from given datasets. On one hand, massive trainable parameters significantly enhance the performance of these deep networks. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Yixing Xu , Boxin Shi , Chao Xu , Chunjing Xu , Chang Xu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are shown to be promising solutions in many challenging artificial intelligence tasks. However, it is very hard to figure out whether the low precision of a DNN model is an inevitable result, or caused by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Jiazhen Gu , Huanlin Xu , Yangfan Zhou , Xin Wang , Hui Xu , Michael Lyu

To ensure flight safety of aircraft structures, it is necessary to have regular maintenance using visual and nondestructive inspection (NDI) methods. In this paper, we propose an automatic image-based aircraft defect detection using Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Touba Malekzadeh , Milad Abdollahzadeh , Hossein Nejati , Ngai-Man Cheung