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This article provides a taxonomy for risk-based testing that serves as a tool to define, tailor, or assess risk-based testing approaches in general and to instantiate risk-based testing approaches for the current testing standards…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Jürgen Großmann , Michael Felderer , Johannes Viehmann , Ina Schieferdecker

Adversarial examples pose a security threat to many critical systems built on neural networks (such as face recognition systems, and self-driving cars). While many methods have been proposed to build robust models, how to build certifiably…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Ruihan Zhang , Peixin Zhang , Jun Sun

This paper proposes new specification tests for conditional models with discrete responses, which are key to apply efficient maximum likelihood methods, to obtain consistent estimates of partial effects and to get appropriate predictions of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Igor Kheifets , Carlos Velasco

We present an extension to the robust phase estimation protocol, which can identify incorrect results that would otherwise lie outside the expected statistical range. Robust phase estimation is increasingly a method of choice for…

The use of machine learning systems in clinical routine is still hampered by the necessity of a medical device certification and/or by difficulty to implement these systems in a clinic's quality management system. In this context, the key…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Lorenzo Mercolli , Axel Rominger , Kuangyu Shi

The rapid advancement of foundation models in medical imaging represents a significant leap toward enhancing diagnostic accuracy and personalized treatment. However, the deployment of foundation models in healthcare necessitates a rigorous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Congzhen Shi , Ryan Rezai , Jiaxi Yang , Qi Dou , Xiaoxiao Li

The existence of adversarial examples has led to considerable uncertainty regarding the trust one can justifiably put in predictions produced by automated systems. This uncertainty has, in turn, lead to considerable research effort in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Christina Göpfert , Jan Philip Göpfert , Barbara Hammer

Large language models have demonstrated remarkable performance in a wide range of medical benchmarks. Yet underneath the seemingly promising results lie salient growth areas, especially in cutting-edge frontiers such as multimodal…

Systems that answer questions by reviewing the scientific literature are becoming increasingly feasible. To draw reliable conclusions, these systems should take into account the quality of available evidence from different studies, placing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jianyou Wang , Weili Cao , Longtian Bao , Youze Zheng , Gil Pasternak , Kaicheng Wang , Xiaoyue Wang , Ramamohan Paturi , Leon Bergen

We show that there may exist an inherent tension between the goal of adversarial robustness and that of standard generalization. Specifically, training robust models may not only be more resource-consuming, but also lead to a reduction of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-10 Dimitris Tsipras , Shibani Santurkar , Logan Engstrom , Alexander Turner , Aleksander Madry

The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including AI in Science (AIS), should be done following the principles of responsible AI. Progress in responsible AI is often quantified through evaluation metrics, yet there has been less…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Theresia Veronika Rampisela , Maria Maistro , Tuukka Ruotsalo , Christina Lioma

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have witnessed the emergence of large-scale deep learning models capable of interpreting and generating both textual and imaging data. Such models, typically referred to as foundation models, are…

The robustness of classifiers has become a question of paramount importance in the past few years. Indeed, it has been shown that state-of-the-art deep learning architectures can easily be fooled with imperceptible changes to their inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Théo Giraudon , Vincent Gripon , Matthias Löwe , Franck Vermet

Recently, large pre-trained foundation models have become widely adopted by machine learning practitioners for a multitude of tasks. Given that such models are publicly available, relying on their use as backbone models for downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Brian Pulfer , Yury Belousov , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Recently, the robustness of deep learning models has received widespread attention, and various methods for improving model robustness have been proposed, including adversarial training, model architecture modification, design of loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Hao Wang , Chen Li , Jinzhe Jiang , Xin Zhang , Yaqian Zhao , Weifeng Gong

In this study, we leverage the deliberate and systematic fault-injection capabilities of an open-source benchmark suite to perform a series of experiments on state-of-the-art deep and robust reinforcement learning algorithms. We aim to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Catherine R. Glossop , Jacopo Panerati , Amrit Krishnan , Zhaocong Yuan , Angela P. Schoellig

Robustness is a key requirement for high-risk AI systems under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act). However, both its definition and assessment methods remain underspecified, leaving providers with little concrete direction on how…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Roberta Tamponi , Carina Prunkl , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

A vision foundation model outputs an embedding vector for an image, which can be affected by common editing operations (e.g., JPEG compression, brightness, contrast adjustments). These common perturbations alter embedding vectors and may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hongbin Liu , Zhengyuan Jiang , Cheng Hong , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Foundation models are a current focus of attention in both industry and academia. While they have shown their capabilities in a variety of tasks, in-depth research is required to determine their robustness to distribution shift when used as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiruo Ding , Zhecheng Sheng , Brian Hur , Feng Chen , Serguei V. S. Pakhomov , Trevor Cohen

Despite considerable efforts on making them robust, real-world AI-based systems remain vulnerable to decision based attacks, as definitive proofs of their operational robustness have so far proven intractable. Canonical robustness…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Ilias Tsingenopoulos , Vera Rimmer , Davy Preuveneers , Fabio Pierazzi , Lorenzo Cavallaro , Wouter Joosen