A survey of safety and trustworthiness of large language models through the lens of verification and validation

X Huang, W Ruan, W Huang, G Jin, Y Dong… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2024 - Springer
Large language models (LLMs) have exploded a new heatwave of AI for their ability to
engage end-users in human-level conversations with detailed and articulate answers across …

A review of testing object-based environment perception for safe automated driving

M Hoss, M Scholtes, L Eckstein - Automotive Innovation, 2022 - Springer
Safety assurance of automated driving systems must consider uncertain environment
perception. This paper reviews literature addressing how perception testing is realized as …

The security of autonomous driving: Threats, defenses, and future directions

K Ren, Q Wang, C Wang, Z Qin… - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have promised to drastically improve the convenience of driving
by releasing the burden of drivers and reducing traffic accidents with more precise control …

Toward Ensuring Safety for Autonomous Driving Perception: Standardization Progress, Research Advances, and Perspectives

C Sun, R Zhang, Y Lu, Y Cui, Z Deng… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perception systems play a crucial role in autonomous driving by reading the sensory data
and providing meaningful interpretation of the operating environment for decision-making …

Testing deep learning-based visual perception for automated driving

S Abrecht, L Gauerhof, C Gladisch, K Groh… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Due to the impressive performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) for visual perception,
there is an increased demand for their use in automated systems. However, to use deep …

Monitoring of perception systems: Deterministic, probabilistic, and learning-based fault detection and identification

P Antonante, HG Nilsen, L Carlone - Artificial Intelligence, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates runtime monitoring of perception systems. Perception is a critical
component of high-integrity applications of robotics and autonomous systems, such as self …

Task-aware risk estimation of perception failures for autonomous vehicles

P Antonante, S Veer, K Leung, X Weng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Safety and performance are key enablers for autonomous driving: on the one hand we want
our autonomous vehicles (AVs) to be safe, while at the same time their performance (eg …

Monitoring and diagnosability of perception systems

P Antonante, DI Spivak… - 2021 IEEE/RSJ …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Perception is a critical component of high-integrity applications of robotics and autonomous
systems, such as self-driving vehicles. In these applications, failure of perception systems …

Bridging formal methods and machine learning with global optimisation

X Huang, W Ruan, Q Tang, X Zhao - International Conference on Formal …, 2022 - Springer
Formal methods and machine learning are two research fields with drastically different
foundations and philosophies. Formal methods utilise mathematically rigorous techniques …

Securing DNN for smart vehicles: An overview of adversarial attacks, defenses, and frameworks

S Almutairi, A Barnawi - Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, 2023 - Springer
Recently, many applications have begun to employ deep neural networks (DNN), such as
image recognition and safety-critical applications, for more accurate results. One of the most …