{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/guiding-the-search-towards-failure-inducing","title":"Guiding the Search Towards Failure-Inducing Test Inputs Using Support Vector Machines","arxiv_id":"2401.12364","date":"2024-01-22","proceeding":null,"authors":["Lev Sorokin","Niklas Kerscher"],"abstract":"In this paper, we present NSGA-II-SVM (Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm with Support Vector Machine Guidance), a novel learnable evolutionary and search-based testing algorithm that leverages Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification models to direct the search towards failure-revealing test inputs. Supported by genetic search, NSGA-II-SVM creates iteratively SVM-based models of the test input space, learning which regions in the search space are promising to be explored. A subsequent sampling and repetition of evolutionary search iterations allow to refine and make the model more accurate in the prediction. Our preliminary evaluation of NSGA-II-SVM by testing an Automated Valet Parking system shows that NSGA-II-SVM is more effective in identifying more critical test cases than a state of the art learnable evolutionary testing technique as well as naive random search.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12364v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12364v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"guiding-the-search-towards-failure-inducing","repo_url":"https://github.com/ast-fortiss-tum/svm-paper-deeptest-24","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}