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3rd Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems (FoMLAS 2020) A satellite event of the CAV conference Los Angeles, California, USA July 20, 2020 https://fomlas2020.wixsite.com/fomlas2020 ===================================== SCOPE In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a highly effective way for creating real-world software, and is revolutionizing the way complex systems are being designed all across the board. In particular, this new approach is being applied to autonomous systems (e.g., autonomous cars, aircraft), achieving exciting results that are beyond the reach of manually created software. However, these significant changes have created new challenges when it comes to explainability, predictability and correctness: Can I explain why my drone turned right at that angle? Can I predict what it will do next? Can I know for sure that my autonomous car will never accelerate towards a pedestrian? These are questions with far-reaching consequences for safety, accountability and public adoption of ML-enabled autonomous systems. One promising avenue for tackling these difficulties is by developing formal methods capable of analyzing and verifying these new kinds of systems. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate discussion regarding how formal methods can be used to increase predictability, explainability, and accountability of ML-enabled autonomous systems. The workshop welcomes results ranging from concept formulation (by connecting these concepts with existing research topics in verification, logic and game theory), through algorithms, methods and tools for analyzing ML-enabled systems, to concrete case studies and examples. The workshop will also include a special session and discussion on the VNNLIB initiative, aimed at creating a standard format and a benchmark library for neural network verification. The topics covered by the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: - Formal specifications for systems with ML components - SAT-based and SMT-based methods for analyzing systems with deep neural network components - Mixed-integer Linear Programming and optimization-based methods for the verification of systems with deep neural network components - Testing approaches for ML components - Statistical approaches to the verification of systems with ML components - Approaches for enhancing the explainability of ML-based systems - Techniques for analyzing hybrid systems with ML components - Verification of quantized and low-precision neural networks ===================================== IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are AOE) Abstract submission April 12, 2020 Full paper submission April 19, 2020 Author notification June 4, 2020 Workshop July 20, 2020 ===================================== COMMITTEE Conference Chairs: Aws Albarghouthi (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA) Guy Katz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Nina Narodytska (VMWare Research, USA) Program Committee: Clark Barrett (Stanford University, USA) Chih-Hong Cheng (Denso Automotive Deutschland GmbH, Germany) Arie Gurfinkel (University of Waterloo, Canada) Xiaowei Huang (University of Liverpool, UK) Suman Jana (Columbia University, USA) Jean-Baptiste Jeannin (University of Michigan, USA) Susmit Jha (SRI, USA) Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London, UK) Luca Pulina (University of Sassari, Italy) Gagandeep Singh (ETH, Switzerland) Armando Tacchella (Università di Genova, Italy) Aleksandar Zeljic (Stanford University, USA) Zhen Zhang (Utah State University, USA) ===================================== SUBMISSIONS Three categories of submissions are invited: - Original papers: contain original research and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the submission. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data available. - Presentation-only papers: describe work recently published or submitted. We see this as a way to provide additional access to important developments that the workshop attendees may be unaware of. - Extended abstracts: given the informal style of the workshop, we strongly encourage the submission of preliminary reports of work in progress. These reports may range in length from very short to full papers, and will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the community. All accepted papers will be posted online as part of informal proceedings on the day of the conference. Papers in all categories will be peer-reviewed. Papers should be submitted as a single column, standard-conforming PDF, using the LNCS style. The suggested page limit is 10 pages, not counting references. Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion (also not counted towards the page limit). To submit a paper, use EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fomlas2020