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Artificial intelligence (AI), and in particular machine learning algorithms, are of increasing importance in many application areas but interpretability and understandability as well as responsibility, accountability, and fairness of the algorithms' results, all crucial for increasing the humans' trust into the systems, are still largely missing. Big industrial players, including Google, Microsoft, and Apple, have become aware of this gap and recently published their own guidelines for the use of AI in order to promote fairness, trust, interpretability, and other goals. Interactive visualization is one of the technologies that may help to increase trust in AI systems. During the seminar, we discussed the requirements for trustworthy AI systems as well as the technological possibilities provided by interactive visualizations to increase human trust in AI.
The use of artificial intelligence continues to impact a broad variety of domains, application areas, and people. However, interpretability, understandability, responsibility, accountability, and fairness of the algorithms' results - all crucial for increasing humans' trust into the systems - are still largely missing. The purpose of this seminar is to understand how these components factor into the holistic view of trust. Further, this seminar seeks to identify design guidelines and best practices for how to build interactive visualization systems to calibrate trust.
Training deep neural networks using backpropagation is very memory and computationally intensive. This makes it difficult to run on-device learning or fine-tune neural networks on tiny, embedded devices such as low-power micro-controller units (MCUs). Sparse backpropagation algorithms try to reduce the computational load of on-device learning by training only a subset of the weights and biases. Existing approaches use a static number of weights to train. A poor choice of this so-called backpropagation ratio limits either the computational gain or can lead to severe accuracy losses. In this paper we present TinyProp, the first sparse backpropagation method that dynamically adapts the back-propagation ratio during on-device training for each training step. TinyProp induces a small calculation overhead to sort the elements of the gradient, which does not significantly impact the computational gains. TinyProp works particularly well on fine-tuning trained networks on MCUs, which is a typical use case for embedded applications. For typical datasets from three datasets MNIST, DCASE2020 and CIFAR10, we are 5 times faster compared to non-sparse training with an accuracy loss of on average 1%. On average, TinyProp is 2.9 times faster than existing, static sparse backpropagation algorithms and the accuracy loss is reduced on average by 6 % compared to a typical static setting of the back-propagation ratio.
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) define the state-of-the-art solution on many perceptual tasks. However, current CNN approaches largely remain vulnerable against adversarial perturbations of the input that have been crafted specifically to fool the system while being quasi-imperceptible to the human eye. In recent years, various approaches have been proposed to defend CNNs against such attacks, for example by model hardening or by adding explicit defence mechanisms. Thereby, a small “detector” is included in the network and trained on the binary classification task of distinguishing genuine data from data containing adversarial perturbations. In this work, we propose a simple and light-weight detector, which leverages recent findings on the relation between networks’ local intrinsic dimensionality (LID) and adversarial attacks. Based on a re-interpretation of the LID measure and several simple adaptations, we surpass the state-of-the-art on adversarial detection by a significant m argin and reach almost perfect results in terms of F1-score for several networks and datasets. Sources available at: https://github.com/adverML/multiLID
In this paper, we describe a first publicly available fine-grained product recognition dataset based on leaflet images. Using advertisement leaflets, collected over several years from different European retailers, we provide a total of 41.6k manually annotated product images in 832 classes. Further, we investigate three different approaches for this fine-grained product classification task, Classification by Image, by Text, as well as by Image and Text. The approach "Classification by Text" uses the text extracted directly from the leaflet product images. We show, that the combination of image and text as input improves the classification of visual difficult to distinguish products. The final model leads to an accuracy of 96.4% with a Top-3 score of 99.2%. We release our code at https://github.com/ladwigd/Leaflet-Product-Classification.
The importance of machine learning has been increasing dramatically for years. From assistance systems to production optimisation to support the health sector, almost every area of daily life and industry comes into contact with machine learning. Besides all the benefits that ML brings, the lack of transparency and the difficulty in creating traceability pose major risks. While there are solutions that make the training of machine learning models more transparent, traceability is still a major challenge. Ensuring the identity of a model is another challenge. Unnoticed modification of a model is also a danger when using ML. One solution is to create an ML birth certificate and an ML family tree secured by blockchain technology. Important information about training and changes to the model through retraining can be stored in a blockchain and accessed by any user to create more security and traceability about an ML model.
Harnessing the overall benefits of the latest advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) requires the extensive collaboration of academia and industry. These collaborations promote innovation and growth while enforcing the practical usefulness of newer technologies in real life. The purpose of this article is to outline the challenges faced during cross-collaboration between academia and industry. These challenges are also inspected with the help of an ongoing project titled “Quality Assurance of Machine Learning Applications” (Q-AMeLiA), in which three universities cooperate with five industry partners to make the product risk of AI-based products visible. Further, we discuss the hurdles and the key challenges in machine learning (ML) technology transformation from academia to industry based on robustness, simplicity, and safety. These challenges are an outcome of the lack of common standards, metrics, and missing regulatory considerations when state-of-the-art (SOTA) technology is developed in academia. The use of biased datasets involves ethical concerns that might lead to unfair outcomes when the ML model is deployed in production. The advancement of AI in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) requires more in terms of common tandardization of concepts rather than algorithm breakthroughs. In this paper, in addition to the general challenges, we also discuss domain specific barriers for five different domains i.e., object detection, hardware benchmarking, continual learning, action recognition, and industrial process automation, and highlight the steps necessary for successfully managing the cross-sectoral collaborations between academia and industry.