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With the rise in the wholesale adoption of Deep Learning (DL) models in nearly all aspects of society, a unique set of challenges is imposed. Primarily centered around the architectures of these models, these risks pose a significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jamal Al-Karaki , Muhammad Al-Zafar Khan , Mostafa Mohamad , Dababrata Chowdhury

As Deep Learning (DL) models are increasingly applied in safety-critical domains, ensuring their quality has emerged as a pressing challenge in modern software engineering. Among emerging validation paradigms, coverage-guided testing (CGT)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Hongjing Guo , Chuanqi Tao , Zhiqiu Huang , Weiqin Zou

Deep learning (DL) has emerged as a crucial tool in network anomaly detection (NAD) for cybersecurity. While DL models for anomaly detection excel at extracting features and learning patterns from data, they are vulnerable to data…

Deep Learning (DL) has had an immense success in the recent past, leading to state-of-the-art results in various domains such as image recognition and natural language processing. One of the reasons for this success is the increasing size…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Ruben Mayer , Hans-Arno Jacobsen

Deep learning (DL) has recently achieved tremendous success in a variety of cutting-edge applications, e.g., image recognition, speech and natural language processing, and autonomous driving. Besides the available big data and hardware…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-18 Qianyu Guo , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Qiang Hu , Ruitao Feng , Li Li , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Xiaohong Li

Machine learning models are essential tools in various domains, but their performance can degrade over time due to changes in data distribution or other factors. On one hand, detecting and addressing such degradations is crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Florian Heinrichs

Vulnerability detection is crucial to protect software security. Nowadays, deep learning (DL) is the most promising technique to automate this detection task, leveraging its superior ability to extract patterns and representations within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yuejun Guo , Qiang Hu , Qiang Tang , Yves Le Traon

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are used in a wide variety of applications. However, as in any software application, DNN-based apps are afflicted with bugs. Previous work observed that DNN bug fix patterns are different from traditional bug fix…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Mohammad Wardat , Breno Dantas Cruz , Wei Le , Hridesh Rajan

As the usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on resource-intensive and safety-critical tasks increases, a variety of Machine Learning (ML) compilers have been developed, enabling compatibility of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with a variety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Nikolaos Louloudakis , Perry Gibson , José Cano , Ajitha Rajan

Deep Learning (DL) systems are rapidly being adopted in safety and security critical domains, urgently calling for ways to test their correctness and robustness. Testing of DL systems has traditionally relied on manual collection and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Jinhan Kim , Robert Feldt , Shin Yoo

The growing application of deep neural networks in safety-critical domains makes the analysis of faults that occur in such systems of enormous importance. In this paper we introduce a large taxonomy of faults in deep learning (DL) systems.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Nargiz Humbatova , Gunel Jahangirova , Gabriele Bavota , Vincenzo Riccio , Andrea Stocco , Paolo Tonella

Deep learning (DL) has become a key component of modern software. In the "big model" era, the rich features of DL-based software substantially rely on powerful DL models, e.g., BERT, GPT-3, and the recently emerging GPT-4, which are trained…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Xuanzhe Liu , Diandian Gu , Zhenpeng Chen , Jinfeng Wen , Zili Zhang , Yun Ma , Haoyu Wang , Xin Jin

Mutants support testing and debugging in two roles: (i) as test goals and (ii) as substitutes for real faults. Hard-to-kill mutants provide better guidance for test improvement, while realism is essential when mutants are used to simulate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zaheed Ahmed , Emmanuel Charleson Dapaah , Philip Makedonski , Jens Grabowski

Software-intensive systems produce logs for troubleshooting purposes. Recently, many deep learning models have been proposed to automatically detect system anomalies based on log data. These models typically claim very high detection…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Van-Hoang Le , Hongyu Zhang

Malware is one of the most common and severe cyber-attack today. Malware infects millions of devices and can perform several malicious activities including mining sensitive data, encrypting data, crippling system performance, and many more.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pascal Maniriho , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Mohammad Jabed Morshed Chowdhury

Deep Learning (DL) is being used nowadays in many traditional Software Engineering (SE) problems and tasks. However, since the renaissance of DL techniques is still very recent, we lack works that summarize and condense the most recent and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Fabio Ferreira , Luciana Lourdes Silva , Marco Tulio Valente

Deep learning (DL) becomes increasingly pervasive, being used in a wide range of software applications. These software applications, named as DL based software (in short as DL software), integrate DL models trained using a large data corpus…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Zhenpeng Chen , Yanbin Cao , Yuanqiang Liu , Haoyu Wang , Tao Xie , Xuanzhe Liu

Software engineers develop, fine-tune, and deploy deep learning (DL) models using a variety of development frameworks and runtime environments. DL model converters move models between frameworks and to runtime environments. Conversion…

Deep Learning (DL) is vulnerable to out-of-distribution and adversarial examples resulting in incorrect outputs. To make DL more robust, several posthoc (or runtime) anomaly detection techniques to detect (and discard) these anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Saikiran Bulusu , Bhavya Kailkhura , Bo Li , Pramod K. Varshney , Dawn Song

Recent deep learning (DL) applications are mostly built on top of DL libraries. The quality assurance of these libraries is critical to the dependable deployment of DL applications. Techniques have been proposed to generate various DL…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Meiziniu Li , Jialun Cao , Yongqiang Tian , Tsz On Li , Ming Wen , Shing-Chi Cheung