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 15:50 - 16:10 at EI 9 Hlawka - Testing and Repairing Neural Networks

Along with the prevalent use of Deep neural networks (DNNs), concerns have been raised on the security threats from DNNs such as backdoors in the network. While neural network repair methods have shown to be effective for fixing the defects in DNNs, they have been also found to produce biased models, with imbalanced accuracy across different classes, or weakened adversarial robustness, allowing malicious attackers to trick the model by adding small perturbations. To address these challenges, we propose INNER, an INterpretability-based NEural Repair approach. INNER formulates the idea of \emph{neuron routing} for identifying fault neurons, in which the interpretability technique \emph{model probe} is used to evaluate each neuron’s contribution to the undesired behaviour of the neural network. INNER then optimizes the identified neurons for repairing the neural network. We test INNER on three typical application scenarios, including backdoor attacks, adversarial attacks, and wrong predictions. Our experimental results demonstrate that INNER can effectively repair neural networks, by ensuring accuracy, fairness, and robustness. Moreover, the performance of other repair methods can be also improved by re-using the fault neurons found by INNER, justifying the generality of the proposed approach.

This program is tentative and subject to change.

Wed 18 Sep

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15:30 - 17:10
Testing and Repairing Neural NetworksTechnical Papers at EI 9 Hlawka
15:30
20m
Talk
Interoperability in Deep Learning: A User Survey and Failure Analysis of ONNX Model Converters
Technical Papers
Purvish Jajal Purdue University, Wenxin Jiang Purdue University, Arav Tewari Purdue University, Erik Kocinare Purdue University, Joseph Woo Purdue University, Anusha Sarraf Purdue University, Yung-Hsiang Lu Purdue University, George K. Thiruvathukal Loyola University Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, James C. Davis Purdue University
Pre-print
15:50
20m
Talk
Interpretability based Neural Network Repair
Technical Papers
Zuohui Chen Zhejiang University of Technology, Jun Zhou Zhejiang University of Technology, Youcheng Sun The University of Manchester, Jingyi Wang Zhejiang University, Qi Xuan Zhejiang University of Technology, Xiaoniu Yang Zhejiang University of Technology
16:10
20m
Talk
See the Forest, not Trees: Unveiling and Escaping the Pitfalls of Error-Triggering Inputs in Neural Network Testing
Technical Papers
Yuanyuan Yuan The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shuai Wang The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zhendong Su ETH Zurich
16:30
20m
Talk
Isolation-Based Debugging for Neural Networks
Technical Papers
Jialuo Chen Zhejiang University, Jingyi Wang Zhejiang University, Youcheng Sun The University of Manchester, Peng Cheng Zhejiang University, Jiming Chen Zhejiang University
DOI
16:50
20m
Talk
Certified Continual Learning for Neural Network Regression
Technical Papers
Long Pham Hong Singapore Management University, Jun Sun School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore

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