Arpan Gujarati, Sathish Gopalakrishnan, and Karthik Pattabiraman, IEEE International Workshop on Software Certification (WoSoCER), 2020. Held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2020. [PDF][Talk]
Abstract: We revisit N-Version Programming (NVP) in the context of machine learning (ML). Generating N versions of an ML component does not require additional programming effort, but only extra computations. This opens up the possibility of executing hundreds of diverse replicas, which, if carefully deployed, can improve their overall reliability by a significant margin. We use mathematical modeling to evaluate these benefits.