A Comprehensive Study on Deep Learning Bug Characteristics
| Autor: | Giang Nguyen, Rangeet Pan, Johirul Islam, Hridesh Rajan |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Root (linguistics) Computer Science - Machine Learning Computer science media_common.quotation_subject 02 engineering and technology Machine Learning (cs.LG) Computer Science - Software Engineering Software Software_SOFTWAREENGINEERING 020204 information systems 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering media_common business.industry Deep learning 020207 software engineering Pipeline (software) Software Engineering (cs.SE) Model parameter Debugging TheoryofComputation_LOGICSANDMEANINGSOFPROGRAMS Theano Stack overflow Artificial intelligence business Software engineering |
| Zdroj: | ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE |
| Popis: | Deep learning has gained substantial popularity in recent years. Developers mainly rely on libraries and tools to add deep learning capabilities to their software. What kinds of bugs are frequently found in such software? What are the root causes of such bugs? What impacts do such bugs have? Which stages of deep learning pipeline are more bug prone? Are there any antipatterns? Understanding such characteristics of bugs in deep learning software has the potential to foster the development of better deep learning platforms, debugging mechanisms, development practices, and encourage the development of analysis and verification frameworks. Therefore, we study 2716 high-quality posts from Stack Overflow and 500 bug fix commits from Github about five popular deep learning libraries Caffe, Keras, Tensorflow, Theano, and Torch to understand the types of bugs, root causes of bugs, impacts of bugs, bug-prone stage of deep learning pipeline as well as whether there are some common antipatterns found in this buggy software. The key findings of our study include: data bug and logic bug are the most severe bug types in deep learning software appearing more than 48% of the times, major root causes of these bugs are Incorrect Model Parameter (IPS) and Structural Inefficiency (SI) showing up more than 43% of the times. We have also found that the bugs in the usage of deep learning libraries have some common antipatterns that lead to a strong correlation of bug types among the libraries. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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