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Deep learning has gained substantial popularity in recent years. Developers mainly rely on libraries and tools to add deep learning capabilities to their software. What kinds of bugs are frequently found in such software? What are the root…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Md Johirul Islam , Giang Nguyen , Rangeet Pan , Hridesh Rajan

While enjoying the great achievements brought by deep learning (DL), people are also worried about the decision made by DL models, since the high degree of non-linearity of DL models makes the decision extremely difficult to understand.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jinwen He , Kai Chen , Guozhu Meng , Jiangshan Zhang , Congyi Li

Vulnerability detection is a crucial yet challenging task to identify potential weaknesses in software for cyber security. Recently, deep learning (DL) has made great progress in automating the detection process. Due to the complex…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuejun Guo , Seifeddine Bettaieb

Pre-trained large deep learning models are now serving as the dominant component for downstream middleware users and have revolutionized the learning paradigm, replacing the traditional approach of training from scratch locally. To reduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yisong Xiao , Aishan Liu , Xinwei Zhang , Tianyuan Zhang , Tianlin Li , Siyuan Liang , Xianglong Liu , Yang Liu , Dacheng Tao

Deep visual recognition models are usually trained and evaluated using metrics such as loss and accuracy. While these measures show whether a model is improving, they reveal very little about how its internal representations change during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hai La Quang , Hassan Ugail , Newton Howard , Cong Tran Tien , Nam Vu Hoai , Hung Nguyen Viet

Deep Learning (DL) models proved themselves to perform extremely well on a wide variety of learning tasks, as they can learn useful patterns from large data sets. However, purely data-driven models might struggle when very difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Andrea Borghesi , Federico Baldo , Michela Milano

Quality of data plays an important role in most deep learning tasks. In the speech community, transcription of speech recording is indispensable. Since the transcription is usually generated artificially, automatically finding errors in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Xiaofei Wang , Jinyi Yang , Ruizhi Li , Samik Sadhu , Hynek Hermansky

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are typically tested for accuracy relying on a set of unlabelled real world data (operational dataset), from which a subset is selected, manually labelled and used as test suite. This subset is required to be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Antonio Guerriero , Roberto Pietrantuono , Stefano Russo

In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

Intrusion detection into computer networks has become one of the most important issues in cybersecurity. Attackers keep on researching and coding to discover new vulnerabilities to penetrate information security system. In consequence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Sergio Hidalgo-Espinoza , Kevin Chamorro-Cupueran , Oscar Chang-Tortolero

Deep neural networks are often considered opaque systems, prompting the need for explainability methods to improve trust and accountability. Existing approaches typically attribute test-time predictions either to input features (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Aziz Bacha , Thomas George

Deep learning (DL) models have become core modules for many applications. However, deploying these models without careful performance benchmarking that considers both hardware and software's impact often leads to poor service and costly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Huaizheng Zhang , Yizheng Huang , Yonggang Wen , Jianxiong Yin , Kyle Guan

This paper presents a novel holistic deep learning framework that simultaneously addresses the challenges of vulnerability to input perturbations, overparametrization, and performance instability from different train-validation splits. The…

Tensor shape mismatch is a common source of bugs in deep learning programs. We propose a new type-based approach to detect tensor shape mismatches. One of the main features of our approach is the best-effort shape inference. As the tensor…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Momoko Hattori , Naoki Kobayashi , Ryosuke Sato

Deep learning (DL) compilers are core infrastructure in modern DL systems, offering flexibility and scalability beyond vendor-specific libraries. This work uncovers a fundamental vulnerability in their design: can an official, unmodified…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Simin Chen , Jinjun Peng , Yixin He , Junfeng Yang , Baishakhi Ray

Existing research on training-time attacks for deep neural networks (DNNs), such as backdoors, largely assume that models are static once trained, and hidden backdoors trained into models remain active indefinitely. In practice, models are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Huiying Li , Arjun Nitin Bhagoji , Yuxin Chen , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

Deep learning (DL) has been a common thread across several recent techniques for vulnerability detection. The rise of large, publicly available datasets of vulnerabilities has fueled the learning process underpinning these techniques. While…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Adriana Sejfia , Satyaki Das , Saad Shafiq , Nenad Medvidović

Deep learning systems achieve remarkable empirical performance, yet the stability of the training process itself remains poorly understood. Training unfolds as a high-dimensional dynamical system in which small perturbations to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhipeng Zhang , Zhenjie Yao , Kai Li , Lei Yang

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has proven extremely useful in a large variety of application domains. However, even successful DRL-based software can exhibit highly undesirable behavior. This is due to DRL training being based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Ophir M. Carmel , Guy Katz

Penetration Testing plays a critical role in evaluating the security of a target network by emulating real active adversaries. Deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) is seen as a promising solution to automating the process of penetration tests…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Yizhou Yang , Xin Liu