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CIS Seminar: “Trustworthy Machine Learning Systems via PAC Uncertainty Quantification”

February 1, 2022 at 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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Date: February 1, 2022
Time: 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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    Computer and Information Science
    Phone: 215-898-8560
    Venue
    Wu and Chen Auditorium (Room 101), Levine Hall 3330 Walnut Street
    Philadelphia
    PA 19104
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    Machine learning models are increasingly being incorporated into real-world systems, targeting domains such as robotics, healthcare, and software systems. A key challenge is ensuring that such systems are trustworthy. I will describe a novel strategy for composing machine learning models while providing provable correctness guarantees. First, we show how to quantify the uncertainty of any given model in a way that satisfies PAC correctness guarantees. Second, we show how to compose guarantees for individual models to obtain a guarantee for the overall system. Then, I will discuss applications to ensuring safety in reinforcement learning from visual inputs, and to speeding up inference time of deep neural networks. I will conclude with ongoing work on preserving correctness guarantees in the face of distribution shift.