{"slug": "adastop-cost-aware-early-stopping-for-dnn-test-selection", "title": "AdaStop: Cost-Aware Early Stopping for DNN Test Selection", "summary": "Researchers introduced AdaStop, a cost-aware early stopping framework for deep neural network testing that determines when to stop labeling inputs by comparing the marginal fault discovery rate to a cost-benefit threshold. Experiments showed AdaStop discovers 65-84% of faults using only 9-31% of the labeling budget.", "body_md": "arXiv:2607.05461v1 Announce Type: new\nAbstract: Existing methods for testing deep neural networks (DNNs) primarily prioritize test inputs likely to reveal model faults under a fixed labeling budget. In practice, choosing that budget is difficult: too little testing misses failures, while too much incurs unnecessary labeling costs. This work studies the stopping problem in DNN testing. We formulate testing as a cost--benefit decision process in which labeling an input incurs cost $c$ and discovering a fault yields value $v$. Based on this formulation, we introduce \\textit{AdaStop}, a framework that estimates the marginal fault discovery rate during testing and stops labeling when the estimated rate falls below the threshold $\\tau = c/v$. Experiments across multiple datasets, architectures, and selection strategies show that $65$--$84\\%$ of faults can be discovered using only $9$--$31\\%$ of the labeling budget.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adastop-cost-aware-early-stopping-for-dnn-test-selection", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05461", "published_at": "2026-07-08 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-08 04:16:34.325438+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["machine-learning", "ai-research", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["AdaStop"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adastop-cost-aware-early-stopping-for-dnn-test-selection", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adastop-cost-aware-early-stopping-for-dnn-test-selection.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adastop-cost-aware-early-stopping-for-dnn-test-selection.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adastop-cost-aware-early-stopping-for-dnn-test-selection.jsonld"}}