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Current interest in deep learning captures the attention of many programmers and researchers. Unfortunately, the lack of a unified schema for developing deep learning models results in methodological inconsistencies, unclear documentation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sebastian Chwilczyński , Kacper Trębacz , Karol Cyganik , Mateusz Małecki , Dariusz Brzezinski

Deep learning libraries like Transformers and Megatron are now widely adopted in modern AI programs. However, when these libraries introduce defects, ranging from silent computation errors to subtle performance regressions, it is often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yi Gao , Xing Hu , Tongtong Xu , Jiali Zhao , Xiaohu Yang , Xin Xia

Deep learning frameworks (DLFs) have been playing an increasingly important role in this intelligence age since they act as a basic infrastructure for an increasingly wide range of AIbased applications. Meanwhile, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zengyang Li , Sicheng Wang , Wenshuo Wang , Peng Liang , Ran Mo , Bing Li

The unit testing of Deep Learning (DL) libraries is challenging due to complex numerical semantics and implicit tensor constraints. Traditional Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) often suffers from semantic blindness, failing to satisfy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhengyu Zhan , Ye Shang , Jiawei Liu , Chunrong Fang , Quanjun Zhang , Zhenyu Chen

Deep learning (DL) libraries are widely used in critical applications, where even subtle silent bugs can lead to serious consequences. While existing DL fuzzing techniques have made progress in detecting crashes, they inherently struggle to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kunpeng Zhang , Dongwei Xiao , Daoyuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Jiali Zhao , Yuanyi Lin , Tongtong Xu , Shaohua Wang

Deep learning achieves remarkable performance on pattern recognition, but can be vulnerable to defects of some important properties such as robustness and security. This tutorial is based on a stream of research conducted since the summer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Nicolas Berthier , Youcheng Sun , Wei Huang , Yanghao Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang

Deep learning (DL) has become an integral part of solutions to various important problems, which is why ensuring the quality of DL systems is essential. One of the challenges of achieving reliability and robustness of DL software is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 E. Kloberdanz , K. G. Kloberdanz , W. Le

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of the PyTorch distributed data parallel module. PyTorch is a widely-adopted scientific computing package used in deep learning research and applications. Recent advances in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Shen Li , Yanli Zhao , Rohan Varma , Omkar Salpekar , Pieter Noordhuis , Teng Li , Adam Paszke , Jeff Smith , Brian Vaughan , Pritam Damania , Soumith Chintala

Deep learning (DL) has been a revolutionary technique in various domains. To facilitate the model development and deployment, many deep learning frameworks are proposed, among which PyTorch is one of the most popular solutions. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yueming Hao , Xu Zhao , Bin Bao , David Berard , Will Constable , Adnan Aziz , Xu Liu

Deep learning frameworks have often focused on either usability or speed, but not both. PyTorch is a machine learning library that shows that these two goals are in fact compatible: it provides an imperative and Pythonic programming style…

Deep metric learning algorithms have a wide variety of applications, but implementing these algorithms can be tedious and time consuming. PyTorch Metric Learning is an open source library that aims to remove this barrier for both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Kevin Musgrave , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

With the development of deep learning (DL) techniques, rotating machinery intelligent diagnosis has gone through tremendous progress with verified success and the classification accuracies of many DL-based intelligent diagnosis algorithms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Zhibin Zhao , Tianfu Li , Jingyao Wu , Chuang Sun , Shibin Wang , Ruqiang Yan , Xuefeng Chen

Recently, many Deep Learning fuzzers have been proposed for testing of DL libraries. However, they either perform unguided input generation (e.g., not considering the relationship between API arguments when generating inputs) or only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Nima Shiri Harzevili , Mohammad Mahdi Mohajer , Moshi Wei , Hung Viet Pham , Song Wang

As Deep Learning (DL) is continuously adopted in many safety critical applications, its quality and reliability start to raise concerns. Similar to the traditional software development process, testing the DL software to uncover its defects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-07 David Berend

Deep Learning (DL) is prevalently used in various industries to improve decision-making and automate processes, driven by the ever-evolving DL libraries and compilers. The correctness of DL systems is crucial for trust in DL applications.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiawei Liu , Jinjun Peng , Yuyao Wang , Lingming Zhang

Efficiency is essential to support responsiveness w.r.t. ever-growing datasets, especially for Deep Learning (DL) systems. DL frameworks have traditionally embraced deferred execution-style DL code that supports symbolic, graph-based Deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Tatiana Castro Vélez , Raffi Khatchadourian , Mehdi Bagherzadeh , Anita Raja

Nowadays, we are witnessing an increasing demand in both corporates and academia for exploiting Deep Learning (DL) to solve complex real-world problems. A DL program encodes the network structure of a desirable DL model and the process by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Amin Nikanjam , Houssem Ben Braiek , Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Foutse Khomh

Sentiment detection in software engineering (SE) has shown promise to support diverse development activities. However, given the diversity of SE platforms, SE-specific sentiment detection tools may suffer in performance in cross-platform…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Gias Uddin , Md Abdullah Al Alamin , Ajoy Das

Deep learning (DL) systems can make our life much easier, and thus are gaining more and more attention from both academia and industry. Meanwhile, bugs in DL systems can be disastrous, and can even threaten human lives in safety-critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Anjiang Wei , Yinlin Deng , Chenyuan Yang , Lingming Zhang