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Verifiable computing (VC) has gained prominence in decentralized machine learning systems, where resource-intensive tasks like deep neural network (DNN) inference are offloaded to external participants due to blockchain limitations. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ali Rahimi , Babak H. Khalaj , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

One major drawback of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for use in safety critical applications is their black-box nature. This makes it hard to verify or monitor complex, symbolic requirements on already trained computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Gesina Schwalbe , Christian Wirth , Ute Schmid

Learning deep neural network (DNN) classifier with noisy labels is a challenging task because the DNN can easily over-fit on these noisy labels due to its high capability. In this paper, we present a very simple but effective training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Wei Hu , QiHao Zhao , Yangyu Huang , Fan Zhang

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

The success of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models significantly depends on the quality of provided annotations. In medical image segmentation, for example, having multiple expert annotations for each data point is common to minimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Asma Ahmed Hashmi , Aigerim Zhumabayeva , Nikita Kotelevskii , Artem Agafonov , Mohammad Yaqub , Maxim Panov , Martin Takáč

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play an increasingly important role in various computer systems. In order to create these networks, engineers typically specify a desired topology, and then use an automated training algorithm to select the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Ori Lahav , Guy Katz

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

Verification of deep neural networks has witnessed a recent surge of interest, fueled by success stories in diverse domains and by abreast concerns about safety and security in envisaged applications. Complexity and sheer size of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dario Guidotti , Francesco Leofante , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a revolutionary force in the ongoing information revolution, and yet their intrinsic properties remain a mystery. In particular, it is widely known that DNNs are highly sensitive to noise, whether adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Netanel Raviv , Siddharth Jain , Pulakesh Upadhyaya , Jehoshua Bruck , Anxiao Jiang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become one of the enabling technologies in many safety-critical applications, e.g., autonomous driving and medical image analysis. DNN systems, however, suffer from various kinds of threats, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Yu Li , Min Li , Bo Luo , Ye Tian , Qiang Xu

Despite the large number of sophisticated deep neural network (DNN) verification algorithms, DNN verifier developers, users, and researchers still face several challenges. First, verifier developers must contend with the rapidly changing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 David Shriver , Sebastian Elbaum , Matthew B. Dwyer

Neural network verification tools currently support only a narrow class of specifications, typically expressed as low-level constraints over raw inputs and outputs. This limitation significantly hinders their adoption and practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yizhak Y. Elboher , Reuven Peleg , Zhouxing Shi , Guy Katz , Jan Křetínský

Deep neural network (DNN) classifiers are often overconfident, producing miscalibrated class probabilities. In high-risk applications like healthcare, practitioners require $\textit{fully calibrated}$ probability predictions for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-09 Zhen Lin , Shubhendu Trivedi , Jimeng Sun

Nowadays, we are witnessing an increasing effort to improve the performance and trustworthiness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), with the aim to enable their adoption in safety critical systems such as self-driving cars. Multiple testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Houssem Ben Braiek , Foutse Khomh

With deep neural networks providing state-of-the-art machine learning models for numerous machine learning tasks, quantifying the robustness of these models has become an important area of research. However, most of the research literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Lam M. Nguyen , Mark S. Squillante , Ivan Oseledets , Luca Daniel

Deep neural networks (DNN) are growing in capability and applicability. Their effectiveness has led to their use in safety critical and autonomous systems, yet there is a dearth of cost-effective methods available for reasoning about the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-22 David Shriver , Dong Xu , Sebastian Elbaum , Matthew B. Dwyer

The increasing use of deep neural networks for safety-critical applications, such as autonomous driving and flight control, raises concerns about their safety and reliability. Formal verification can address these concerns by guaranteeing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Lindsey Kuper , Guy Katz , Justin Gottschlich , Kyle Julian , Clark Barrett , Mykel Kochenderfer

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used in real-world applications, yet they remain vulnerable to errors and adversarial attacks. Formal verification offers a systematic approach to identify and mitigate these vulnerabilities, enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yizhak Y. Elboher , Avraham Raviv , Yael Leibovich Weiss , Omer Cohen , Roy Assa , Guy Katz , Hillel Kugler

Over the past few years, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been continuously expanding their real-world applications for source code processing tasks across the software engineering domain, e.g., clone detection, code search, comment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Maryam Vahdat Pour , Zhuo Li , Lei Ma , Hadi Hemmati