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6 papers

cs.CV2026

Catalyst: Out-of-Distribution Detection via Elastic Scaling

Abid Hassan, Tuan Ngo, Saad Shafiq +1

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is critical for the safe deployment of deep neural networks. State-of-the-art post-hoc methods typically derive OOD scores from the output logit…

cs.CV2026

DAVIS: OOD Detection via Dominant Activations and Variance for Increased Separation

Abid Hassan, Tuan Ngo, Saad Shafiq +1

Detecting out-of-distribution (OOD) inputs is a critical safeguard for deploying machine learning models in the real world. However, most post-hoc detection methods operate on penu…

cs.LG2026

DNN Modularization via Activation-Driven Training

Tuan Ngo, Abid Hassan, Saad Shafiq +1

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) tend to accrue technical debt and suffer from significant retraining costs when adapting to evolving requirements. Modularizing DNNs offers the promise…

cs.SE2025

Identifying Appropriately-Sized Services with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Syeda Tasnim Fabiha, Saad Shafiq, Wesley Klewerton Guez Assunção +1

Service-based architecture (SBA) has gained attention in industry and academia as a means to modernize legacy systems. It refers to a design style that enables systems to be develo…

cs.SE2025

Are We Learning the Right Features? A Framework for Evaluating DL-Based Software Vulnerability Detection Solutions

Satyaki Das, Syeda Tasnim Fabiha, Saad Shafiq +1

Recent research has revealed that the reported results of an emerging body of DL-based techniques for detecting software vulnerabilities are not reproducible, either across differe…

cs.SE2025

Toward Improved Deep Learning-based Vulnerability Detection

Adriana Sejfia, Satyaki Das, Saad Shafiq +1

Deep learning (DL) has been a common thread across several recent techniques for vulnerability detection. The rise of large, publicly available datasets of vulnerabilities has fuel…