Examining Redundancy in the Context of Safe Machine Learning

Abstract

This paper describes a set of experiments with neural network classifiers on the MNIST database of digits. The purpose is to investigate naïve implementations of redundant architectures as a first step towards safe and dependable machine learning. We report on a set of measurements using the MNIST database which ultimately serve to underline the expected difficulties in using NN classifiers in safe and dependable systems.

5 pages, 7 tables, 5 figures