Source File Tracking Localization: A Fault Localization Method for Deep Learning Frameworks

Deep learning has been widely used in computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and other fields. If there are errors in deep learning frameworks, such as missing module errors and GPU/CPU result discrepancy errors, it will cause many application problems. We propose a source-based fault location method, SFTL (Source File Tracking Localization), to improve the fault location efficiency of these two types of errors in deep learning frameworks. We screened 3410 crash reports on GitHub and conducted fault location experiments based on those reports. The experimental results show that the SFTL method has a high accuracy, which can help deep learning framework developers quickly locate faults and improve the stability and reliability of models.