Towards Runtime Monitoring for Responsible Machine Learning using Model-driven Engineering
Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Machine learning (ML) components are used heavily in many current software systems, but developing them responsibly in practice remains challenging. 'Responsible ML' refers to developing, deploying and maintaining ML-based systems that adhere to human-centric requirements, such as fairness, privacy, transparency, safety, accessibility, and human values. Meeting these requirements is essential for maintaining public trust and ensuring the success of ML-based systems. However, as changes are likely in production environments and requirements often evolve, design-time quality assurance practices are insufficient to ensure such systems' responsible behavior. Runtime monitoring approaches for ML-based systems can potentially offer valuable solutions to address this problem. Many currently available ML monitoring solutions overlook human-centric requirements due to a lack of awareness and tool support, the complexity of monitoring human-centric requirements, and the effort required to develop and manage monitors for changing requirements. We believe that many of these challenges can be addressed by model-driven engineering. In this new ideas paper, we present an initial meta-model, model-driven approach, and proof of concept prototype for runtime monitoring of human-centric requirements violations, thereby ensuring responsible ML behavior. We discuss our prototype, current limitations and propose some directions for future work.
Institutions: Monash University, Deakin University
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Australian Research Council
OpenAlex ID: W4402977992