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Robust and real-time detection of faults on rotating machinery has become an ultimate objective for predictive maintenance in various industries. Vibration-based Deep Learning (DL) methodologies have become the de facto standard for bearing…

Information Retrieval-based Fault Localization (IRFL) techniques aim to identify source files containing the root causes of reported failures. While existing techniques excel in ranking source files, challenges persist in bug report…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Shuai Shao , Tingting Yu

In many applications of machine learning (ML), updates are performed with the goal of enhancing model performance. However, current practices for updating models rely solely on isolated, aggregate performance analyses, overlooking important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Megha Srivastava , Besmira Nushi , Ece Kamar , Shital Shah , Eric Horvitz

Identifying the point of error is imperative in software debugging. Traditional fault localization (FL) techniques rely on executing the program and using the code coverage matrix in tandem with test case results to calculate a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Suhwan Ji , Sanghwa Lee , Changsup Lee , Hyeonseung Im , Yo-Sub Han

Identifying and resolving software faults remains a challenging and resource-intensive process. Traditional fault localization techniques, such as Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL), leverage statistical analysis of test coverage but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Md Nakhla Rafi , Dong Jae Kim , Tse-Hsun Chen , Shaowei Wang

Debugging is one of the most time-consuming and expensive tasks in software development. Several formula-based fault localization (FBFL) methods have been proposed, but they fail to guarantee a set of diagnoses across all failing tests or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Pedro Orvalho , Mikoláš Janota , Vasco Manquinho

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

Boolean matrix has been used to represent digital information in many fields, including bank transaction, crime records, natural language processing, protein-protein interaction, etc. Boolean matrix factorization (BMF) aims to find an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Changlin Wan , Wennan Chang , Tong Zhao , Mengya Li , Sha Cao , Chi Zhang

Numerous Fault Localisation (FL) and repair techniques have been proposed to address faults in Deep Learning (DL) models. However, their effectiveness in practical applications remains uncertain due to the reliance on pre-defined rules.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jinhan Kim , Nargiz Humbatova , Gunel Jahangirova , Shin Yoo , Paolo Tonella

In this paper, we propose DeepRL4FL, a deep learning fault localization (FL) approach that locates the buggy code at the statement and method levels by treating FL as an image pattern recognition problem. DeepRL4FL does so via novel code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yi Li , Shaohua Wang , Tien N. Nguyen

Model compression can significantly reduce the sizes of deep neural network (DNN) models, and thus facilitates the dissemination of sophisticated, sizable DNN models, especially for their deployment on mobile or embedded devices. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yongqiang Tian , Wuqi Zhang , Ming Wen , Shing-Chi Cheung , Chengnian Sun , Shiqing Ma , Yu Jiang

Deep neural network (DNN) mutation analysis is a promising approach to evaluating test set adequacy. Due to the large number of generated mutants that must be tested on large datasets, mutation analysis is costly. In this paper, we present…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ali Ghanbari , Sasan Tavakkol

Fault Localization (FL) aims to automatically localize buggy lines of code, a key first step in many manual and automatic debugging tasks. Previous FL techniques assume the provision of input tests, and often require extensive program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Aidan Z. H. Yang , Ruben Martins , Claire Le Goues , Vincent J. Hellendoorn

Brain tumor classification from magnetic resonance imaging, which is also known as MRI, plays a sensitive role in computer-assisted diagnosis systems. In recent years, deep learning models have achieved high classification accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hiba Adil Al-kharsan , Róbert Rajkó

Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) has proven to be a powerful unsupervised learning method for uncovering hidden features in complex and noisy data sets with applications in data mining, text recognition, dimension reduction, face…

The aim of this study is to implement a method to remove ambient noise in biomedical sounds captured in auscultation. We propose an incremental approach based on multichannel non-negative matrix partial co-factorization (NMPCF) for ambient…

ADMM-FFT is an iterative method with high reconstruction accuracy for laminography but suffers from excessive computation time and large memory consumption. We introduce mLR, which employs memoization to replace the time-consuming Fast…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Bin Ma , Viktor Nikitin , Xi Wang , Tekin Bicer , Dong Li

Emerging deep learning workloads urgently need fast general matrix multiplication (GEMM). To meet such demand, one of the critical features of machine-learning-specific accelerators such as NVIDIA Tensor Cores, AMD Matrix Cores, and Google…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Bo Fang , Xinyi Li , Harvey Dam , Cheng Tan , Siva Kumar Sastry Hari , Timothy Tsai , Ignacio Laguna , Dingwen Tao , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan , Prashant Nair , Kevin Barker , Ang Li

This paper introduces DDMIN-LOC, a technique that combines Delta Debugging Minimization (DDMIN) with Spectrum-Based Fault Localization (SBFL). It can be applied to programs taking string inputs, even when only a single failure-inducing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Charaka Geethal Kapugama

Context: Mutation Testing (MT) is an important tool in traditional Software Engineering (SE) white-box testing. It aims to artificially inject faults in a system to evaluate a test suite's capability to detect them, assuming that the test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Florian Tambon , Foutse Khomh , Giuliano Antoniol