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DeepLog is an operational neurosymbolic framework that unifies logic and deep learning within standard PyTorch workflows. While existing neurosymbolic systems focus on a particular paradigm and semantics, DeepLog serves as a universal…

Detecting bugs in Deep Learning (DL) libraries (e.g., TensorFlow/PyTorch) is critical for almost all downstream DL systems in ensuring effectiveness/safety for end users. Meanwhile, traditional fuzzing techniques can be hardly effective for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Yinlin Deng , Chunqiu Steven Xia , Haoran Peng , Chenyuan Yang , Lingming Zhang

Three-dimensional (3D) point cloud analysis has become central to applications ranging from autonomous driving and robotics to forestry and ecological monitoring. Although numerous deep learning methods have been proposed for point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Said Ohamouddou , Hanaa El Afia , Abdellatif El Afia , Raddouane Chiheb

Deep learning frameworks (DLFs) have been playing an increasingly important role in this intelligence age since they act as a basic infrastructure for an increasingly wide range of AIbased applications. Meanwhile, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zengyang Li , Sicheng Wang , Wenshuo Wang , Peng Liang , Ran Mo , Bing Li

A growing body of research has been dedicated to DL model testing. However, there is still limited work on testing DL libraries, which serve as the foundations for building, training, and running DL models. Prior work on fuzzing DL…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yinlin Deng , Chenyuan Yang , Anjiang Wei , Lingming Zhang

In today's data-driven era, deep learning is vital for processing massive datasets, yet single-device training is constrained by computational and memory limits. Distributed deep learning overcomes these challenges by leveraging multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Xiaoxue Ma , Wanwei Zhan , Jiale Chen , Yishu Li , Jacky Keung , Federica Sarro

Deep learning libraries like Transformers and Megatron are now widely adopted in modern AI programs. However, when these libraries introduce defects, ranging from silent computation errors to subtle performance regressions, it is often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yi Gao , Xing Hu , Tongtong Xu , Jiali Zhao , Xiaohu Yang , Xin Xia

Deep learning achieves remarkable performance on pattern recognition, but can be vulnerable to defects of some important properties such as robustness and security. This tutorial is based on a stream of research conducted since the summer…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Nicolas Berthier , Youcheng Sun , Wei Huang , Yanghao Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang

Deep Learning (DL) frameworks are now widely used, simplifying the creation of complex models as well as their integration to various applications even to non DL experts. However, like any other programs, they are prone to bugs. This paper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Florian Tambon , Amin Nikanjam , Le An , Foutse Khomh , Giuliano Antoniol

Deep Learning (DL) is prevalently used in various industries to improve decision-making and automate processes, driven by the ever-evolving DL libraries and compilers. The correctness of DL systems is crucial for trust in DL applications.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jiawei Liu , Jinjun Peng , Yuyao Wang , Lingming Zhang

Deep learning frameworks have often focused on either usability or speed, but not both. PyTorch is a machine learning library that shows that these two goals are in fact compatible: it provides an imperative and Pythonic programming style…

Static and dynamic computational graphs represent two distinct approaches to constructing deep learning frameworks. The former prioritizes compiler-based optimizations, while the latter focuses on programmability and user-friendliness. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Qidong Su , Chuqin Geng , Gennady Pekhimenko , Xujie Si

Deep learning (DL) libraries are widely used in critical applications, where even subtle silent bugs can lead to serious consequences. While existing DL fuzzing techniques have made progress in detecting crashes, they inherently struggle to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Kunpeng Zhang , Dongwei Xiao , Daoyuan Wu , Shuai Wang , Jiali Zhao , Yuanyi Lin , Tongtong Xu , Shaohua Wang

Ubiquitous wearable and mobile devices provide access to a diverse set of data. However, the mobility demand for our devices naturally imposes constraints on their computational and communication capabilities. A solution is to locally learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Fan Mo , Mohammad Malekzadeh , Soumyajit Chatterjee , Fahim Kawsar , Akhil Mathur

Modern software systems heavily rely on various libraries, which require understanding the API semantics in static analysis. However, summarizing API semantics remains challenging due to complex implementations or unavailable library code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Maryam Masoudian , Anshunkang Zhou , Chengpeng Wang , Charles Zhang

Neurosymbolic (NeSy) AI aims to combine the strengths of neural architectures and symbolic reasoning to improve the accuracy, interpretability, and generalization capability of AI models. While logic inference on top of subsymbolic modules…

Deep learning (DL) defines a new data-driven programming paradigm that constructs the internal system logic of a crafted neuron network through a set of training data. We have seen wide adoption of DL in many safety-critical scenarios.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Lei Ma , Felix Juefei-Xu , Fuyuan Zhang , Jiyuan Sun , Minhui Xue , Bo Li , Chunyang Chen , Ting Su , Li Li , Yang Liu , Jianjun Zhao , Yadong Wang

In this paper, we introduce MCTensor, a library based on PyTorch for providing general-purpose and high-precision arithmetic for DL training. MCTensor is used in the same way as PyTorch Tensor: we implement multiple basic, matrix-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Tao Yu , Wentao Guo , Jianan Canal Li , Tiancheng Yuan , Christopher De Sa

Deep Learning experiments have critical requirements regarding the careful handling of their datasets as well as the efficient and correct usage of APIs that interact with hardware accelerators. On the one hand, software mistakes during…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Nick Papoulias

Deep learning algorithms have made many breakthroughs and have various applications in real life. Computational resources become a bottleneck as the data and complexity of the deep learning pipeline increases. In this paper, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Salman Ahmed , Hammad Naveed