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most citedInspect, Understand, Overcome: A Survey of Practical Methods for AI Safety

49 citations · 157 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Multi-Agent Neural Rewriter for Vehicle Routing with Limited Disclosure of Costs

Nathalie Paul, Tim Wirtz, Stefan Wrobel +1

We interpret solving the multi-vehicle routing problem as a team Markov game with partially observable costs. For a given set of customers to serve, the playing agents (vehicles) h…

cs.LG2022

Tailored Uncertainty Estimation for Deep Learning Systems

Joachim Sicking, Maram Akila, Jan David Schneider +4

Uncertainty estimation bears the potential to make deep learning (DL) systems more reliable. Standard techniques for uncertainty estimation, however, come along with specific combi…

cs.CV2021

Validation of Simulation-Based Testing: Bypassing Domain Shift with Label-to-Image Synthesis

Julia Rosenzweig, Eduardo Brito, Hans-Ulrich Kobialka +8

Many machine learning applications can benefit from simulated data for systematic validation - in particular if real-life data is difficult to obtain or annotate. However, since si…

cs.LG2021★ 49 cited

Inspect, Understand, Overcome: A Survey of Practical Methods for AI Safety

Sebastian Houben, Stephanie Abrecht, Maram Akila +38

The use of deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical applications like mobile health and autonomous driving is challenging due to numerous model-inherent shortcomings. These s…

cs.CV2021

Plants Don't Walk on the Street: Common-Sense Reasoning for Reliable Semantic Segmentation

Linara Adilova, Elena Schulz, Maram Akila +4

Data-driven sensor interpretation in autonomous driving can lead to highly implausible predictions as can most of the time be verified with common-sense knowledge. However, learnin…

cs.CV2021

Street-Map Based Validation of Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving

Laura von Rueden, Tim Wirtz, Fabian Hueger +3

Artificial intelligence for autonomous driving must meet strict requirements on safety and robustness, which motivates the thorough validation of learned models. However, current v…

cs.IR2021★ 3 cited

Supporting verification of news articles with automated search for semantically similar articles

Vishwani Gupta, Katharina Beckh, Sven Giesselbach +2

Fake information poses one of the major threats for society in the 21st century. Identifying misinformation has become a key challenge due to the amount of fake news that is publis…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Approaching Neural Network Uncertainty Realism

Joachim Sicking, Alexander Kister, Matthias Fahrland +5

Statistical models are inherently uncertain. Quantifying or at least upper-bounding their uncertainties is vital for safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles. While stan…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

A Novel Regression Loss for Non-Parametric Uncertainty Optimization

Joachim Sicking, Maram Akila, Maximilian Pintz +3

Quantification of uncertainty is one of the most promising approaches to establish safe machine learning. Despite its importance, it is far from being generally solved, especially…

cs.LG2020

DenseHMM: Learning Hidden Markov Models by Learning Dense Representations

Joachim Sicking, Maximilian Pintz, Maram Akila +1

We propose DenseHMM - a modification of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) that allows to learn dense representations of both the hidden states and the observables. Compared to the standa…

cs.CV2020

Towards Map-Based Validation of Semantic Segmentation Masks

Laura von Rueden, Tim Wirtz, Fabian Hueger +2

Artificial intelligence for autonomous driving must meet strict requirements on safety and robustness. We propose to validate machine learning models for self-driving vehicles not…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Characteristics of Monte Carlo Dropout in Wide Neural Networks

Joachim Sicking, Maram Akila, Tim Wirtz +2

Monte Carlo (MC) dropout is one of the state-of-the-art approaches for uncertainty estimation in neural networks (NNs). It has been interpreted as approximately performing Bayesian…

cs.LG2018

Efficient Decentralized Deep Learning by Dynamic Model Averaging

Michael Kamp, Linara Adilova, Joachim Sicking +4

We propose an efficient protocol for decentralized training of deep neural networks from distributed data sources. The proposed protocol allows to handle different phases of model…

math.ST2015★ 10 cited

The Correlated Jacobi and the Correlated Cauchy-Lorentz ensembles

Tim Wirtz, Daniel Waltner, Mario Kieburg +1

We calculate the -point generating function of the correlated Jacobi ensemble using supersymmetric methods. We use the result for complex matrices for to derive a closed-f…

math-ph2015★ 2 cited

Asymptotic Coincidence of the Statistics for Degenerate and Non-Degenerate Correlated Real Wishart Ensembles

Tim Wirtz, Mario Kieburg, Thomas Guhr

The correlated Wishart model provides the standard benchmark when analyzing time series of any kind. Unfortunately, the real case, which is the most relevant one in applications, p…

math-ph2015

The Smallest Eigenvalue Distribution in the Real Wishart-Laguerre Ensemble with Even Topology

Tim Wirtz, Gernot Akemann, Thomas Guhr +2

We consider rectangular random matrices of size belonging to the real Wishart-Laguerre ensemble also known as the chiral Gaussian orthogonal ensemble. This ensemble app…

math-ph2014★ 11 cited

Eigenvalue Density of the Doubly Correlated Wishart Model: Exact Results

Daniel Waltner, Tim Wirtz, Thomas Guhr

Data sets collected at different times and different observing points can possess correlations at different times at different positions. The doubly correlated Wishart model…

math-ph2014★ 10 cited

Limiting Statistics of the Largest and Smallest Eigenvalues in the Correlated Wishart Model

Tim Wirtz, Mario Kieburg, Thomas Guhr

The correlated Wishart model provides a standard tool for the analysis of correlations in a rich variety of systems. Although much is known for complex correlation matrices, the em…

math-ph2014★ 18 cited

Completing the picture for the smallest eigenvalue of real Wishart matrices

G. Akemann, T. Guhr, M. Kieburg +2

Rectangular real matrices with a Gaussian distribution appear very frequently in data analysis, condensed matter physics and quantum field theory. A central…

math-ph2013★ 11 cited

Distribution of the Smallest Eigenvalue in Complex and Real Correlated Wishart Ensembles

Tim Wirtz, Thomas Guhr

For the correlated Gaussian Wishart ensemble we compute the distribution of the smallest eigenvalue and a related gap probability.We obtain exact results for the complex (β=2) and…

math-ph2013★ 26 cited

Distribution of the Smallest Eigenvalue in the Correlated Wishart Model

Tim Wirtz, Thomas Guhr

Wishart random matrix theory is of major importance for the analysis of correlated time series. The distribution of the smallest eigenvalue for Wishart correlation matrices is part…

hep-th2011★ 6 cited

Worldsheet operator product expansions and p-point functions in AdS3/CFT2

Ingo Kirsch, Tim Wirtz

We construct the operator product expansions (OPE) of the chiral primary operators in the worldsheet theory for strings on AdS_3 x S^3 x T^4. As an interesting application, we will…