ISSTA 2022
Mon 18 - Fri 22 July 2022 Online
Fri 22 Jul 2022 00:40 - 01:00 at ISSTA 2 - Session 1-10: Neural Networks, Learning, NLP A
Fri 22 Jul 2022 16:00 - 16:20 at ISSTA 2 - Session 3-10: Neural Networks, Learning, NLP C

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted to many real-world application and their reliability has been widely concerned. This paper introduces a notion of ε-weakened robustness (briefly as ε-robustness) for analyzing the reliability and some related quality issues of deep neural networks. Unlike the conventional robustness, which focuses on the ``perfect'' safe region in the absence of adversarial examples, ε-weakened robustness focuses on the region where the proportion of adversarial examples is bounded by user-specified ε. The smaller the value of ε is, the less vulnerable a neural network is to be fooled by a random perturbation. Under such robustness definition, we can give conclusive results for the regions where conventional robustness ignores. We propose an efficient testing based method with user-controllable error bounds to analyze it. The time complexity of our algorithms is polynomial in the dimension and size of the network. So, they are scalable to large networks. One of the important application of our ε-robustness is to build a robustness enhanced classifier to resist adversarial attack. Based on this theory, we design a robustness enhancement method with a good interpretability and rigours robustness guarantee. The basic idea is to resist perturbation with perturbation. Experimental results show that our robustness enhancement method can significantly improve the ability of deep models to resist adversarial attacks while maintaining the prediction performance on the original clean data. Besides, we also show the other potential value of ε-robustness in neural networks analysis.

Fri 22 Jul

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00:00 - 01:00
Session 1-10: Neural Networks, Learning, NLP ATechnical Papers at ISSTA 2
00:00
20m
Talk
AEON: A Method for Automatic Evaluation of NLP Test Cases
Technical Papers
Jen-tse Huang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Jianping Zhang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Wenxuan Wang The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Pinjia He The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Yuxin Su Sun Yat-sen University, Michael Lyu The Chinese University of Hong Kong
DOI
00:20
20m
Talk
Simple Techniques Work Surprisingly Well for Neural Network Test Prioritization and Active Learning (Replicability Study)
Technical Papers
Michael Weiss Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Paolo Tonella USI Lugano
DOI Pre-print
00:40
20m
Talk
ε-weakened Robustness of Deep Neural Networks
Technical Papers
Pei Huang State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institution of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuting Yang Institute of Computing Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Minghao Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuqi Jia State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institution of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Feifei Ma Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jian Zhang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
DOI
15:00 - 16:20
Session 3-10: Neural Networks, Learning, NLP CTechnical Papers at ISSTA 2
15:00
20m
Talk
ASRTest: Automated Testing for Deep-Neural-Network-Driven Speech Recognition Systems
Technical Papers
Pin Ji Nanjing University, Yang Feng Nanjing University, Jia Liu Nanjing University, Zhihong Zhao Nanjing Tech Unniversity, Zhenyu Chen Nanjing University
DOI
15:20
20m
Talk
BET: Black-box Efficient Testing for Convolutional Neural Networks
Technical Papers
Wang Jialai Tsinghua University, Han Qiu Tsinghua University, Yi Rong Tsinghua University, Hengkai Ye Purdue University, Qi Li Tsinghua University, Zongpeng Li Tsinghua University, Chao Zhang Tsinghua University
DOI
15:40
20m
Talk
Simple Techniques Work Surprisingly Well for Neural Network Test Prioritization and Active Learning (Replicability Study)
Technical Papers
Michael Weiss Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Paolo Tonella USI Lugano
DOI Pre-print
16:00
20m
Talk
ε-weakened Robustness of Deep Neural Networks
Technical Papers
Pei Huang State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institution of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yuting Yang Institute of Computing Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Minghao Liu Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuqi Jia State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institution of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Feifei Ma Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Jian Zhang Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
DOI