PiShield: A PyTorch Package for Learning with Requirements
Published in The Proceedings of IJCAI, 2024
Recommended citation: Mihaela C. Stoian, Alex Tatomir, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Eleonora Giunchiglia. PiShield: A PyTorch Package for Learning with Requirements. arXiv preprint 2402.18285, 2024. Accepted at IJCAI 2024. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/1037
Deep learning models have shown their strengths in various application domains, however, they often struggle to meet safety requirements for their outputs. In this paper, we introduce PiShield, the first package ever allowing for the integration of the requirements into the neural networks’ topology. PiShield guarantees compliance with these requirements, regardless of input. Additionally, it allows for integrating requirements both at inference and/or training time, depending on the practitioners’ needs. Given the widespread application of deep learning, there is a growing need for frameworks allowing for the integration of the requirements across various domains. Here, we explore three application scenarios: functional genomics, autonomous driving, and tabular data generation.
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