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Deep Learning (DL) libraries (e.g., PyTorch) are popular in AI development. These libraries are complex and contain bugs. Researchers have proposed various bug-finding techniques for such libraries. Yet, there is much room for improvement.…

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Software systems are increasingly relying on deep learning components, due to their remarkable capability of identifying complex data patterns and powering intelligent behaviour. A core enabler of this change in software development is the…

Machine learning (ML) libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow are essential for a wide range of modern applications. Ensuring the correctness of ML libraries through testing is crucial. However, ML APIs often impose strict input…

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The unit testing of Deep Learning (DL) libraries is challenging due to complex numerical semantics and implicit tensor constraints. Traditional Search-Based Software Testing (SBST) often suffers from semantic blindness, failing to satisfy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhengyu Zhan , Ye Shang , Jiawei Liu , Chunrong Fang , Quanjun Zhang , Zhenyu Chen

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

Recent advances in deep learning (dl) have led to the release of several dl software libraries such as pytorch, Caffe, and TensorFlow, in order to assist machine learning (ml) practitioners in developing and deploying state-of-the-art deep…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mohamed Raed El aoun , Lionel Nganyewou Tidjon , Ben Rombaut , Foutse Khomh , Ahmed E. Hassan

Deep learning (DL) libraries, widely used in AI applications, often contain vulnerabilities like buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. Traditional fuzzing struggles with the complexity and API diversity of DL libraries such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Kunpeng Zhang , Shuai Wang , Jitao Han , Xiaogang Zhu , Xian Li , Shaohua Wang , Sheng Wen

DeepLab2 is a TensorFlow library for deep labeling, aiming to provide a state-of-the-art and easy-to-use TensorFlow codebase for general dense pixel prediction problems in computer vision. DeepLab2 includes all our recently developed…

The increasing inclusion of Machine Learning (ML) models in safety critical systems like autonomous cars have led to the development of multiple model-based ML testing techniques. One common denominator of these testing techniques is their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Houssem Ben Braiek , Foutse Khomh

Deep Learning (DL) libraries, such as PyTorch, are widely used for building and deploying DL models on various hardware platforms. Meanwhile, they are found to contain bugs that lead to incorrect calculation results and cause issues like…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaoyuan Xie , Yan Song , Songqiang Chen , Jinfu Chen

Checker bugs in Deep Learning (DL) libraries are critical yet not well-explored. These bugs are often concealed in the input validation and error-checking code of DL libraries and can lead to silent failures, incorrect results, or…

Deep learning (DL) applications are prevalent nowadays as they can help with multiple tasks. DL libraries are essential for building DL applications. Furthermore, DL operators are the important building blocks of the DL libraries, that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jingyi Shi , Yang Xiao , Yuekang Li , Yeting Li , Dongsong Yu , Chendong Yu , Hui Su , Yufeng Chen , Wei Huo

The application of machine learning (ML) libraries has been tremendously increased in many domains, including autonomous driving systems, medical, and critical industries. Vulnerabilities of such libraries result in irreparable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Nima Shiri Harzevili , Jiho Shin , Junjie Wang , Song Wang

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms have become the {\em de facto} choice for data analysis. Several DL implementations -- primarily limited to a single compute node -- such as Caffe, TensorFlow, Theano and Torch have become readily available.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Abhinav Vishnu , Joseph Manzano , Charles Siegel , Jeff Daily

Differential testing offers a promising strategy to alleviate the test oracle problem by comparing the test results between alternative implementations. However, existing differential testing techniques for deep learning (DL) libraries are…

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Deep Learning (DL) models are widely used in machine learning due to their performance and ability to deal with large datasets while producing high accuracy and performance metrics. The size of such datasets and the complexity of DL models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Gongbo Liang , Izzat Alsmadi

Input constraints are useful for many software development tasks. For example, input constraints of a function enable the generation of valid inputs, i.e., inputs that follow these constraints, to test the function deeper. API functions of…

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We have recently witnessed tremendous success of Machine Learning (ML) in practical applications. Computer vision, speech recognition and language translation have all seen a near human level performance. We expect, in the near future, most…

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

We present ShapeFlow, a dynamic abstract interpreter for TensorFlow which quickly catches tensor shape incompatibility errors, one of the most common bugs in deep learning code. ShapeFlow shares the same APIs as TensorFlow but only captures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Sahil Verma , Zhendong Su
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