Exploring Innovative Metrics to Benchmark and Ensure Robustness in AI Systems

Exploring Innovative Metrics to Benchmark and Ensure Robustness in AI Systems

Manoj Kuppam, Madhavi Godbole, Tirupathi Rao Bammidi, S. Suman Rajest, R. Regin
Copyright: © 2024 |Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3693-1355-8.ch001
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Abstract

In an era where AI systems are increasingly integrated into critical applications, ensuring their robustness and reliability is of paramount importance. This study embarks on a comprehensive exploration of innovative metrics aimed at benchmarking and ensuring the robustness of AI systems. Through extensive research and experimentation, the authors introduce a set of groundbreaking metrics that demonstrate superior performance across diverse AI applications and scenarios. These metrics challenge existing benchmarks and set a new gold standard for the AI community to aspire towards. Robustness and reliability are cornerstones of trustworthy AI systems. Traditional metrics often fall short in assessing the real-world performance and robustness of AI models. To address this gap, this research team has developed a suite of novel metrics that capture nuanced aspects of AI system behavior. These metrics evaluate not only accuracy but also adaptability, resilience to adversarial attacks, and fairness in decision-making. By doing so, the authors provide a more comprehensive view of an AI system's capabilities. This study's significance lies in its potential to drive the AI community towards higher standards of performance and reliability. By adopting these innovative metrics, researchers, developers, and stakeholders can better assess and compare the robustness of AI systems. This, in turn, will lead to the development of more dependable AI solutions across various domains, including healthcare, finance, autonomous vehicles, and more. This research represents a significant step forward in ensuring the robustness and reliability of AI systems. The introduction of innovative metrics challenges the status quo and sets a new performance standard for AI systems, ultimately contributing to the creation of more trustworthy and dependable AI technologies.
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Introduction

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a catalyst for transformative changes across various industries, from healthcare to finance. As AI systems become increasingly integral to critical decision-making processes, ensuring their robustness and reliability has emerged as a paramount concern (Ashraf, 2023). Robustness in AI refers to the ability of systems to maintain performance across a range of conditions and inputs, including those that are novel or adversarial (Atasever, 2023). The importance of robust AI systems cannot be overstated, as vulnerabilities can lead to significant consequences, including financial losses, safety hazards, and erosion of public trust in AI technologies (Dwivedi et al., 2021; Singh et al., 2023).

Despite their potential, AI systems are susceptible to various issues, such as data biases, model overfitting, and adversarial attacks, which can compromise their robustness (Bhakuni & Ivanyan, 2023; Singh et al., 2023a). Traditional metrics for evaluating AI systems, like accuracy and precision, are often inadequate in capturing the nuanced aspects of robustness (Bose et al., 2023a). Hence, there is a growing need for innovative metrics that can comprehensively assess the robustness of AI systems, taking into account their complexity and the diverse environments in which they operate (Atlam et al., 2018; Singh et al., 2023b).

In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), this research endeavors to embark on a pioneering journey of exploration and discovery (Bose et al., 2023b). Its central objective revolves around the quest for innovative metrics, wielding the potential to serve as indispensable benchmarks for AI systems, fostering their effectiveness, and fortifying their overall robustness (AL Zamil et al., 2019). With a scrutinizing gaze, this study embarks on an odyssey through the contemporary landscape of AI robustness metrics, diligently surveying the methodologies that have come before (Jiang et al., 2019). Yet, amid this journey, it keenly identifies the fissures and constraints that have marred the existing metrics (Chau et al., 2020; Sabarirajan et al., 2023).

The study, undaunted by the hurdles it encounters, rises to the occasion and presents a beacon of hope in the form of a novel set of metrics meticulously crafted to bridge the chasms in our understanding of AI resilience (Das et al., 2023; Farhan & Bin Sulaiman, 2023). These groundbreaking metrics are poised to illuminate the darkest corners of AI systems' vulnerability, subjecting them to a battery of tests and adversarial scenarios (Zheng et al., 2018) in a bid to ascertain their steadfastness in the face of unpredictable perturbations (Dionisio et al., 2023). As a result, these metrics are destined to usher in a new era of trustworthiness and reliability for AI systems in practical, real-world applications, where their robustness is not just a desirable trait but an imperative prerequisite for the transformative potential they hold (Ismail & Materwala, 2019; Lavanya et al., 2023; Rallang et al., 2023). In essence, this research is a call to arms for the AI community, beckoning them to embrace these novel metrics as the cornerstone of a more secure, dependable, and resilient AI future (Ead & Abbassy, 2022). The introduction sets the stage for a detailed exploration of the subject, highlighting the significance of robust AI systems and the need for advanced metrics to ensure their effectiveness and reliability (Stone et al., 2018; Shynu et al., 2022).

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