ISSTA 2024
Mon 16 - Fri 20 September 2024 Vienna, Austria
co-located with ISSTA/ECOOP 2024

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 18 Sep 2024 14:30 - 14:50 at EI 7 - Fairness and Safety of Neural Networks

Deep neural network (DNN) has been increasingly deployed as a key component in safety-critical systems. However, the credibility of DNN components is uncertain due to the absence of formal specifications for their data preconditions, essential for ensuring trustworthy postconditions. In this paper, we propose a guess-and-check-based framework PreBoxes to automatically synthesize Boxes sufficient preconditions for DNN concerning rich safety and robustness postconditions. The guess phase effectively provides potentially non-trivial candidate sets and continuously reduces overhead throughout all designed heuristics. The check phase provides a provable guarantee. The entire framework supports automatic and adaptive iterative running to obtain weaker preconditions as well. Such resulting preconditions can be leveraged to shield DNN for safety and enhance the interpretability of DNN in application. PreBoxes has been evaluated on over 20 models with 23 trustworthy properties of 4 benchmarks and compared with 3 existing typical schemes. The results show that not only does PreBoxes generally infer weaker non-trivial sufficient preconditions for DNN than others, but also it expands competitive capabilities to deal with both complex properties and Non-ReLU complex structured networks.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 18 Sep

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13:30 - 14:50
Fairness and Safety of Neural NetworksTechnical Papers at EI 7
13:30
20m
Talk
NeuFair: Neural Network Fairness Repair with Dropout
Technical Papers
Vishnu Asutosh Dasu Pennsylvania State University, Ashish Kumar , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari University of Texas at El Paso, Gang Tan Pennsylvania State University
13:50
20m
Talk
A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Improving the Fairness of Image Classification Models
Technical Papers
Junjie Yang College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Jiajun Jiang Tianjin University, Zeyu Sun Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Junjie Chen Tianjin University
DOI
14:10
20m
Talk
Efficient DNN-Powered Software with Fair Sparse Models
Technical Papers
Xuanqi Gao Xi’an Jiaotong University, Weipeng Jiang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Juan Zhai University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Shiqing Ma University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Xiaoyu Zhang Xi'an Jiaotong University, Chao Shen Xi'an Jiaotong University
Pre-print
14:30
20m
Talk
Synthesizing Boxes Preconditions for Deep Neural Networks
Technical Papers
Zengyu Liu College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China, Liqian Chen National University of Defense Technology, China, Wanwei Liu National University of Defense Technology, Ji Wang School of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, China