CS 521 - Advanced Topics in Programming Systems: Trustworthy AI Systems

Gagandeep Singh and Madhusudan Parthasarathy (aka Madhu)

Mondays and Wednesdays, 09:30AM - 10:45AM, in 1035 Campus Instructional Facility

Instructors
Gagandeep Singh
Madhusudan Parthasarathy
Lecture Schedule
Lectures Schedule
Books
Neural Network Verification
Homework
Homework Schedule
Piazza
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About
Emerging ML models (like deep neural networks) tend to be complex, fragile, non-robust, and uninterpretable. This makes it extremely challenging to build reliable real-world systems that incorporate ML components. We need trustworthy ML as well as robust system design to achieve end-to-end correctness of systems.

In this course, we will study recent developments at the intersection of formal methods (FM), programming languages (PL) and machine learning (ML) research towards the development of trustworthy AI-based systems. Some topics planned covered for the course are:

  • Formal Verification of ML models using abstraction and constraint solvers
  • Symbolic explanations of deep neural networks
  • Training ML models with Logic and Knowledge
  • Learning symbolic concepts (code, program synthesis, invariants)
  • Proving correctness of systems with ML components
  • Neurosymbolic machine learning
  • Prerequisites: Students should have taken CS173 (or a similar course) and know basic proofs using induction and proof by contradiction (as taught in CS173). Some background on computability theory (as taught is CS374) would be good. Having taken a course in machine learning (like CS446) would be good.

    Initial Logistics
    WARNING: these pages are still tentative. Don't trust the details until the first few lectures are done.