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This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 29 Apr 2025 11:00 - 11:15 at 207 - Session 2 Chair(s): Foutse Khomh

Machine learning (ML) models can provide powerful solutions to many types of problems but are susceptible to changes in the data distribution observed during operations, known as data drift. Unexpected inputs due to data drift or out of distribution (OOD) data can lead to undesirable behavior. Even worse, ML-enabled systems often do not expose to users when the underlying model performance has degraded, which can lead to systems performing in unexpected and undesirable ways. To provide insight into how model performance is impacted by data drift, we developed Portend, a tool set that enables model developers to generate and tune monitors that can detect when data drift results in reduced confidence in the model, and send alerts when confidence does not meet system needs. The monitor is tuned by artificially inducing drift in test data, and computing appropriate metrics to estimate how model performance responds to different conditions of data drift. Based on simulations, Portend can be used to set thresholds for appropriate metrics to predict when data drift is occurring and is expected to reduce confidence in the model output below a confidence threshold set for a system. We validate our approach using a metric based on Average Threshold Confidence (ATC) to simulate drift detection on an autonomous drone system running a neural-network-based visual localization model. We show that Portend can be used to provide drift planning support to tune a monitor and detect when data drift has degraded model performance below a threshold in the context of visual localization for autonomous navigation in unmanned aerial vehicles. Results show that Portend can effectively detect data drift, which allows users to observe model performance in operation, enables taking corrective action, and improves trust in the system.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Tue 29 Apr

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11:00 - 12:30
Session 2RAIE at 207
Chair(s): Foutse Khomh Polytechnique Montréal
11:00
15m
Talk
Using Drift Planning to Improve Safety of Visual Navigation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
RAIE
Jeffrey Hansen Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Sebastian Echeverria Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Lena Pons Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Lihan Zhan Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, Gabriel A. Moreno Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Grace Lewis Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
11:15
15m
Talk
LLM-AQuA-DiVeR: LLM-Assisted Quality Assurance Through Dialogues on Verifiable Specification with Requirement Owners
RAIE
Shohei Mitani Georgetown University, Salonee Moona Triple Point Security, Shinichiro Matsuo Georgetown University, Eric Burger Virginia Tech
11:30
12m
Talk
Towards Ensuring Responsible AI for Medical Device Certification
RAIE
Giulio Mallardi University of Bari, Luigi Quaranta University of Bari, Italy, Fabio Calefato University of Bari, Filippo Lanubile University of Bari
11:42
12m
Talk
Navigating the landscape of AI test methods using taxonomy-based selection
RAIE
Maximilian Pintz Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, University of Bonn, Anna Schmitz Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Rebekka Görge Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Sebastian Schmidt Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Daniel Becker , Maram Akila Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Lamarr Institute, Michael Mock Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
11:54
12m
Talk
Responsible AI in the Software Industry: A Practitioner-Centered Perspective
RAIE
Matheus de Morais Leça University of Calgary, Mariana Pinheiro Bento University of Calgary, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary
Pre-print
12:06
12m
Talk
The Privacy Pillar - A Conceptual Framework for Foundation Model-based Systems
RAIE
Tingting Bi The University of Melbourne, Guangsheng Yu University of Technology Sydney, Qin Wang CSIRO Data61
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