Title
Runtime Monitoring Neuron Activation Patterns
Abstract
For using neural networks in safety critical domains, it is important to know if a decision made by a neural network is supported by prior similarities in training. We propose runtime neuron activation pattern monitoring - after the standard training process, one creates a monitor by feeding the training data to the network again in order to store the neuron activation patterns in abstract form. In operation, a classification decision over an input is further supplemented by examining if a pattern similar (measured by Hamming distance) to the generated pattern is contained in the monitor. If the monitor does not contain any pattern similar to the generated pattern, it raises a warning that the decision is not based on the training data. Our experiments show that, by adjusting the similarity-threshold for activation patterns, the monitors can report a significant portion of misclassfications to be not supported by training with a small false-positive rate, when evaluated on a test set.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.23919/DATE.2019.8714971
2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
runtime monitoring,neural network,dependability,autonomous driving
Training set,Hamming distance,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Mathematics,Machine learning,Test set
Journal
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
abs/1809.06573
1530-1591
978-1-7281-0331-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chih-Hong Cheng113417.63
Georg Nührenberg2382.56
Hirotoshi Yasuoka3342.38