Robust Artificial Intelligence System Assurance (RAISA)
February 28, 2022
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Workshop Description
The workshop on Robust Artificial Intelligence System Assurance (RAISA) will focus on research, development and application of robust artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems. Rather than studying robustness with respect to particular ML algorithms, our approach will be to explore robustness assurance at the system architecture level, during both development and deployment, and within the human-machine teaming context. While the research community is converging on robust solutions for individual AI models in specific scenarios, the problem of evaluating and assuring the robustness of an AI system across its entire life cycle is much more complex. Moreover, the operational context in which AI systems are deployed necessitates consideration of robustness and its relation to principles of fairness, privacy, and explainability.
RAISA’s systems-level perspective will be emphasized via three main thrusts:
AI System Robustness: participants will consider techniques for detecting and mitigating vulnerabilities at each of the processing stages of an AI system, including: the input stage of sensing and measurement, the data conditioning stage, during training and application of machine learning algorithms, the human-machine teaming stage, and during operational use.
The robust development and assured deployment of AI systems: Participants will discuss how to leverage and update common software development paradigms, e.g., DevSecOps, to incorporate relevant aspects of system-level AI assurance.
The impact of robustness assurance on other AI ethics principles: RAISA will also explore aspects related to ethical AI that overlap and interact with robustness concerns, including security, fairness, privacy, and explainability.
Important Dates
Website Launched – September 15, 2021
Paper Submission Deadline – Friday, November 12, 2021 (midnight, Pacific time)
Author Notification – December 3, 2021
RAISA Workshop – February 28, 2022
AAAI Conference – February 22–March 1, 2022
The RAISA Workshop is held in conjunction with the 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. This workshop is a follow-on event to the successful RAISA3 workshop, that occurred as part of the 2020 ECAI conference.
Submission Requirements
PDF suitable for ArXiv repository (4 to 8 pages). Previously published work (or under-review) is acceptable.
Submissions are not anonymized
Please submit PDF to Easychair via this link:
https://easychair.org/cfp/raisa-2022
Workshop Format
Half day event featuring invited and keynote speakers and presentations selected through a CFP
Workshop Topics
AI threat modeling
AI system robustness
Explainable AI
System lifecycle attacks
System verification and validation
Robustness benchmarks and standards
Robustness to black-box and white-box adversarial attacks
Defenses against training, operational and inversion attacks
AI system confidentiality, integrity, and availability
AI system fairness and bias