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48 results for software quality

Improving software quality through effective organizational learning.

problem Lack of reliable quantification methods for software evolution.
method Leveraging application lifecycle management data to identify and address managerial practices.
result Effective learning from past processes improves software quality indirectly.

Software development effort estimation is considered a fundamental task for software development life cycle as well as for managing project cost, time and quality. Therefore, accurate estimation is a substantial factor in projects success and reducing the risks. In recent years, software effort estimation has received …

2019-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Research proposes an ensemble learning model for efficient software defect prediction.

problem Efficient and cost-effective software testing to minimize project resources.
method Machine learning analysis on different datasets using KNN, Decision Tree, SVM, and Naïve Bayes.
result Ensemble learning model outperforms other techniques in accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score.

In this short article I introduce the knotR package, which creates two dimensional knot diagrams optimized for visual appearance using the R programming language. The knotR package is a systematic R-centric suite of software for the creation of production-quality artwork of knot diagrams, released under GPL2.

2016-10-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework improves ML performance by identifying high-quality data.

problem Poor data quality hampers ML performance.
method Intelligent data-centric evaluation framework combining quality measurements and unsupervised learning.
result Framework improves ML system performance in real-world use case.

The paper proposes a method to predict the performance of data-driven algorithms using surrogate models.

problem Improving the performance prediction of data-driven knowledge discovery algorithms.
method Surrogate-assisted performance prediction using evolutionary modeling of clinical pathways.
result The proposed approach provides interpretable prediction of algorithm performance and quality.

The paper proposes a new method to evaluate LLM agent responses using ECDF clustering.

problem The standard evaluation of LLM agent responses via majority voting obscures response quality and distribution.
method The paper introduces a novel evaluation framework based on ECDF of cosine similarities and clustering of ECDFs using distances and kk-medoids algorithm.
result ECDF clustering reveals interpretable group structures in LLM responses, offering insights into agent settings.

Machine learning techniques based on neural networks are achieving remarkable results in a wide variety of domains. Often, the training of models requires large, representative datasets, which may be crowdsourced and contain sensitive information. The models should not expose private information in these datasets. Addr…

2016-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

A new restart criterion for k-means++ improves clustering quality and adapts to data difficulty.

problem Arbitrary restart counts in k-means++ lead to inconsistent results and wasted computation.
method GTRC combines Good-Turing estimates, bounds, and user-specified tolerance to dynamically decide restarts.
result GTRC achieves clustering quality comparable to fixed restart counts, varying restarts based on data difficulty.

FedCM measures contributions in real-time for federated learning.

problem Fairly allocating contributions in federated learning systems.
method FedCM calculates impact based on current and previous rounds with attention aggregation.
result FedCM is more sensitive to data quality and quantity in real-time.

QC methods improve reliability of machine learning-based image segmentation.

problem Inaccuracies in machine learning algorithms limit their clinical applicability.
method Analysis and validation of QC approaches for automatic segmentation.
result Aggregation of uncertainty and Dice prediction methods improved segmentation reliability.

Improved software flaw detection using NAS on multimodal DL models.

problem Software flaw detection in multimodal deep learning models.
method Adapted NAS framework for multimodal learning, combined with multimodal deep learning models.
result Improved performance on the Juliet Test Suite.

Method predicts hardware resource usage by control software with guaranteed linear convergence.

problem Predicting time-varying hardware resource availability in control software.
method Path structured multimarginal Schrödinger bridge (MSBP) for learning stochastic resource usage.
result Guaranteed linear convergence to accurate prediction of hardware resource utilization.

Existing language models such as n-grams for software code often fail to capture a long context where dependent code elements scatter far apart. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to build a language model for software code to address this particular issue. Our language model, partly inspired by human memory, i…

2016-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper tackles co-design of neural hardware and software to improve efficiency.

problem Designing efficient deep learning systems that consider both hardware and software optimizations together.
method Developed a constrained Bayesian optimization framework to automatically identify profitable design points in the joint hardware/software design space.
result Improved energy-delay product by 18% (ResNet) and 40% (DQN) over hand-tuned systems.

The public package registry npm is one of the biggest software registry. With its 216 911 software packages, it forms a big network of software dependencies. In this paper we evaluate various methods for finding similar packages in the npm network, using only the structure of the graph. Namely, we want to find a way of…

2016-02-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Although software analytics has experienced rapid growth as a research area, it has not yet reached its full potential for wide industrial adoption. Most of the existing work in software analytics still relies heavily on costly manual feature engineering processes, and they mainly address the traditional classification…

2016-07-30abs ↗pdf ↗

The purpose of this study is to introduce new design-criteria for next-generation hyperparameter optimization software. The criteria we propose include (1) define-by-run API that allows users to construct the parameter search space dynamically, (2) efficient implementation of both searching and pruning strategies, and …

2019-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Existing malware detectors on safety-critical devices have difficulties in runtime detection due to the performance overhead. In this paper, we introduce PROPEDEUTICA, a framework for efficient and effective real-time malware detection, leveraging the best of conventional machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) te…

2017-12-04abs ↗pdf ↗

In ultrasound (US) imaging, individual channel RF measurements are back-propagated and accumulated to form an image after applying specific delays. While this time reversal is usually implemented using a hardware- or software-based delay-and-sum (DAS) beamformer, the performance of DAS decreases rapidly in situations w…

2019-04-05abs ↗pdf ↗

This study compares traditional ML and deep learning for classifying multilingual user feedback.

problem Classifying multilingual user feedback for software development teams.
method Comparison of traditional machine learning and deep learning approaches.
result Traditional machine learning can achieve comparable results to deep learning for multilingual user feedback classification.

EvaSylv software evaluates forest management with natural risk considerations.

problem Evaluating forest management under increased natural risk due to climate change.
method User-friendly software simulates forest management scenarios, integrating natural risk using a Poisson process and Faustmann approach.
result Software optimizes forest management criteria like Faustmann value and Averaged yield value.

Software estimates inequality in random systems with changing communities.

problem Measuring inequality in systems with dynamic interactions and random attributes.
method Piecewise homogeneous Markov chain for changing points, copula function for multivariate distribution, Monte Carlo algorithm for entropy estimation.
result Estimates Random Theil's Entropy to measure inequality in random systems.

Due to its potential to improve programmer productivity and software quality, automated program repair has been an active topic of research. Newer techniques harness neural networks to learn directly from examples of buggy programs and their fixes. In this work, we consider a recently identified class of bugs called va…

2019-04-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning tools are commonly used in modern high energy physics (HEP) experiments. Different models, such as boosted decision trees (BDT) and artificial neural networks (ANN), are widely used in analyses and even in the software triggers. In most cases, these are classification models used to select the "signal"…

2016-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗