ISSTA 2024
Mon 16 - Fri 20 September 2024 Vienna, Austria
co-located with ISSTA/ECOOP 2024
Wed 18 Sep 2024 14:30 - 14:50 at EI 7 - Fairness and Safety of Neural Networks Chair(s): Jingyi Wang

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, which are essential for ensuring trustworthy postconditions.In this paper, we propose a guess-and-check-based framework {\em PreBoxes} to automatically synthesize Boxes sufficient preconditions for DNN concerning rich safety and robustness postconditions.The framework operates in two phases: the {\em guess} phase generates potentially complex candidate preconditions through heuristic methods, while the {\em check} phase verifies these candidates with formal guarantees.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.{\em 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 {\em PreBoxes} generally infer weaker non-trivial sufficient preconditions for DNN than others, but also it expands competitive capabilities to handle both {\em complex properties} and {\em Non-ReLU complex structured networks}.

Wed 18 Sep

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13:30 - 14:50
Fairness and Safety of Neural NetworksTechnical Papers at EI 7
Chair(s): Jingyi Wang Zhejiang University
13:30
20m
Talk
NeuFair: Neural Network Fairness Repair with Dropout
Technical Papers
Vishnu Asutosh Dasu Pennsylvania State University, Ashish Kumar Pennsylvania State University, Saeid Tizpaz-Niari University of Texas at El Paso, Gang (Gary) Tan Pennsylvania State University
DOI
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 at 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 at Amherst, Shiqing Ma University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Xiaoyu Zhang Xi’an Jiaotong University, Chao Shen Xi’an Jiaotong University
DOI Pre-print
14:30
20m
Talk
Synthesizing Boxes Preconditions for Deep Neural Networks
Technical Papers
Zengyu Liu National University of Defense Technology, Liqian Chen National University of Defense Technology, Wanwei Liu National University of Defense Technology, Ji Wang National University of Defense Technology
DOI

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