AUTOTRAINER: An Automatic DNN Training Problem Detection and Repair System

With machine learning models especially Deep Neural Network (DNN) models becoming an integral part of the new intelligent software, new tools to support their engineering process are in high demand. Existing DNN debugging tools are either post-training which wastes a lot of time training a buggy mod...

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Published in:Proceedings / International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 359 - 371
Main Authors: Zhang, Xiaoyu, Zhai, Juan, Ma, Shiqing, Shen, Chao
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.05.2021
Subjects:
deep learning training
Maintenance engineering
Monitoring
Recurrent neural networks
Software
Software engineering
software tools
Training
ISBN:1665402962, 9781665402965
ISSN:1558-1225
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Summary:With machine learning models especially Deep Neural Network (DNN) models becoming an integral part of the new intelligent software, new tools to support their engineering process are in high demand. Existing DNN debugging tools are either post-training which wastes a lot of time training a buggy model and requires expertises, or limited on collecting training logs without analyzing the problem not even fixing them. In this paper, we propose AUTOTRAINER, a DNN training monitoring and automatic repairing tool which supports detecting and auto repairing five commonly seen training problems. During training, it periodically checks the training status and detects potential problems. Once a problem is found, AUTOTRAINER tries to fix it by using built-in state-of-the-art solutions. It supports various model structures and input data types, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for image and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for texts. Our evaluation on 6 datasets, 495 models show that AUTOTRAINER can effectively detect all potential problems with 100% detection rate and no false positives. Among all models with problems, it can fix 97.33% of them, increasing the accuracy by 47.08% on average.
ISBN:1665402962
9781665402965
ISSN:1558-1225
DOI:10.1109/ICSE43902.2021.00043