On Mobileye’s formal model of AV safety

Summary: This short post talks about Mobileye’s new paper (regarding a formal approach to Autonomous Vehicles safety). It claims that the paper has several issues, but is nevertheless an important start. Mobileye came out with a paper titled “On a Formal Model of Safe and Scalable Self-driving Cars” (Bloomberg coverage, summary paper, full pdf). Their … More On Mobileye’s formal model of AV safety

Using program induction for verification

Summary: I discussed before (e.g. here) how connecting rule-based verification to the rule-less, amorphous Machine Learning world is really hard, and yet necessary. The current post talks about a somewhat-exotic technique called Program Induction (PI), and how it might (eventually) help bridge that gap. What’s program induction Background: I always liked the idea of synthesizing … More Using program induction for verification