Ensembling Uncertainty Measures to Improve Safety of Black-Box Classifiers

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العنوان: Ensembling Uncertainty Measures to Improve Safety of Black-Box Classifiers
المؤلفون: Zoppi, Tommaso, Ceccarelli, Andrea, Bondavalli, Andrea
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Machine Learning, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Software Engineering, C.5, D.2, I.2
الوصف: Machine Learning (ML) algorithms that perform classification may predict the wrong class, experiencing misclassifications. It is well-known that misclassifications may have cascading effects on the encompassing system, possibly resulting in critical failures. This paper proposes SPROUT, a Safety wraPper thROugh ensembles of UncertainTy measures, which suspects misclassifications by computing uncertainty measures on the inputs and outputs of a black-box classifier. If a misclassification is detected, SPROUT blocks the propagation of the output of the classifier to the encompassing system. The resulting impact on safety is that SPROUT transforms erratic outputs (misclassifications) into data omission failures, which can be easily managed at the system level. SPROUT has a broad range of applications as it fits binary and multi-class classification, comprising image and tabular datasets. We experimentally show that SPROUT always identifies a huge fraction of the misclassifications of supervised classifiers, and it is able to detect all misclassifications in specific cases. SPROUT implementation contains pre-trained wrappers, it is publicly available and ready to be deployed with minimal effort.
Comment: To appear at ECAI23 in October23
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12065
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2308.12065
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv