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Formal verification has emerged as a powerful approach to ensure the safety and reliability of deep neural networks. However, current verification tools are limited to only a handful of properties that can be expressed as first-order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Xuan Xie , Kristian Kersting , Daniel Neider

Deep Neural Network (DNN) has been showing great potential in kinds of real-world applications such as fraud detection and distress prediction. Meanwhile, data isolation has become a serious problem currently, i.e., different parties cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Longfei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Yingting Liu , Bingzhe Wu , Xibin Wu , Li Wang , Lei Wang , Jun Zhou , Shuang Yang

Software development in the aerospace domain requires adhering to strict, high-quality standards. While there exist regulatory guidelines for commercial software in this domain (e.g., ARP-4754 and DO-178), these do not apply to software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Guy Katz , Natan Levy , Idan Refaeli , Raz Yerushalmi

Causal mediation analysis can unpack the black box of causality and is therefore a powerful tool for disentangling causal pathways in biomedical and social sciences, and also for evaluating machine learning fairness. To reduce bias for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-27 Siqi Xu , Lin Liu , Zhonghua Liu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are suffering from ethical issues such as individual discrimination. In response, extensive NN repair techniques have been developed to adjust models and mitigate such undesired behaviors. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jianan Ma , Jingyi Wang , Qi Xuan , Zhen Wang

Fair predictive algorithms hinge on both equality and trust, yet inherent uncertainty in real-world data challenges our ability to make consistent, fair, and calibrated decisions. While fairly managing predictive error has been extensively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Lucas Rosenblatt , R. Teal Witter

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing and learning from complex data structured as graphs, demonstrating remarkable effectiveness in various applications, such as social network analysis, recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Duna Zhan , Dongliang Guo , Pengsheng Ji , Sheng Li

Due to costly efforts during data acquisition and model training, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) belong to the intellectual property of the model creator. Hence, unauthorized use, theft, or modification may lead to legal repercussions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Torsten Krauß , Jasper Stang , Alexandra Dmitrienko

Fairness in machine learning is crucial when individuals are subject to automated decisions made by models in high-stake domains. Organizations that employ these models may also need to satisfy regulations that promote responsible and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Shubham Sharma , Alan H. Gee , David Paydarfar , Joydeep Ghosh

Recent advancements in machine learning achieved by Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been significant. While demonstrating high accuracy, DNNs are associated with a huge number of parameters and computations, which leads to high memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Babak Rokh , Ali Azarpeyvand , Alireza Khanteymoori

As neural networks make their way into safety-critical systems, where misbehavior can lead to catastrophes, there is a growing interest in certifying the equivalence of two structurally similar neural networks. For example, compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Brandon Paulsen , Jingbo Wang , Jiawei Wang , Chao Wang

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 learning models, particularly Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), have demonstrated exceptional performance in diagnosing skin diseases, often outperforming dermatologists. However, they have also unveiled biases linked to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Anshul Pundhir , Balasubramanian Raman , Pravendra Singh

Mitigating bias in automated decision-making systems, particularly in deep learning models, is a critical challenge due to nuanced definitions of fairness, dataset-specific biases, and the inherent trade-off between fairness and accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Charmaine Barker , Daniel Bethell , Dimitar Kazakov

With the widespread use of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for representation learning from network data, the fairness of GNN models has raised great attention lately. Fair GNNs aim to ensure that node representations can be accurately…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Guixian Zhang , Guan Yuan , Debo Cheng , Lin Liu , Jiuyong Li , Shichao Zhang

Quantization is a technique for creating efficient Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which involves performing computations and storing tensors at lower bit-widths than f32 floating point precision. Quantization reduces model size and inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Eliska Kloberdanz , Wei Le

Recent research implies that training and inference of deep neural networks (DNN) can be computed with low precision numerical representations of the training/test data, weights and gradients without a general loss in accuracy. The benefit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Dominik Marek Loroch , Norbert Wehn , Franz-Josef Pfreundt , Janis Keuper

We present the first automated verification technique for confidence-based 2-safety properties, such as global robustness and global fairness, in deep neural networks (DNNs). Our approach combines self-composition to leverage existing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Anagha Athavale , Ezio Bartocci , Maria Christakis , Matteo Maffei , Dejan Nickovic , Georg Weissenbacher

Individual treatment effect estimation has gained significant attention in recent data science literature. This work introduces the Double Neural Network (Double-NN) method to address this problem within the framework of extended fiducial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-06 Sehwan Kim , Faming Liang

The visual appearance of a person is easily affected by many factors like pose variations, viewpoint changes and camera parameter differences. This makes person Re-Identification (ReID) among multiple cameras a very challenging task. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Chi Su , Shiliang Zhang , Junliang Xing , Wen Gao , Qi Tian