DiTOX: Fault Detection and Localization in the ONNX Optimizer

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Autori principali: Louloudakis, Nikolaos, Rajan, Ajitha
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author Louloudakis, Nikolaos
Rajan, Ajitha
author_facet Louloudakis, Nikolaos
Rajan, Ajitha
contents The ONNX Optimizer, part of the official ONNX repository and widely adopted for graph-level model optimizations, is used by default to optimize ONNX models. Despite its popularity, its ability to preserve model correctness has not been systematically evaluated. We present DiTOX, an automated framework for comprehensively assessing the correctness of the ONNX Optimizer using differential testing, fault localization, and evaluation techniques that generalize to other compiler optimizers. DiTOX applies optimization passes to a corpus of ONNX models, executes both original and optimized versions on user-defined inputs, and detects discrepancies in behavior or optimizer failures. When divergences are observed, DiTOX isolates the responsible optimization pass through iterative, fine-grained analysis. We evaluated DiTOX on 130 models from the ONNX Model Hub spanning vision and language tasks. We found that 9.2% of model instances crashed the optimizer or produced invalid models under default settings. Moreover, output discrepancies occurred in 30% of classification models and 16.6% of object detection and segmentation models, while text-based models were largely robust. Overall, DiTOX uncovered 15 issues -- 14 previously unknown -- affecting 9 of the 47 optimization passes as well as the optimizer infrastructure. All issues were reported to the ONNX Optimizer developers. Our results demonstrate that DiTOX provides a simple and effective approach for validating AI model optimizers and is readily extensible beyond ONNX.
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spellingShingle DiTOX: Fault Detection and Localization in the ONNX Optimizer
Louloudakis, Nikolaos
Rajan, Ajitha
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
Systems and Control
The ONNX Optimizer, part of the official ONNX repository and widely adopted for graph-level model optimizations, is used by default to optimize ONNX models. Despite its popularity, its ability to preserve model correctness has not been systematically evaluated. We present DiTOX, an automated framework for comprehensively assessing the correctness of the ONNX Optimizer using differential testing, fault localization, and evaluation techniques that generalize to other compiler optimizers. DiTOX applies optimization passes to a corpus of ONNX models, executes both original and optimized versions on user-defined inputs, and detects discrepancies in behavior or optimizer failures. When divergences are observed, DiTOX isolates the responsible optimization pass through iterative, fine-grained analysis. We evaluated DiTOX on 130 models from the ONNX Model Hub spanning vision and language tasks. We found that 9.2% of model instances crashed the optimizer or produced invalid models under default settings. Moreover, output discrepancies occurred in 30% of classification models and 16.6% of object detection and segmentation models, while text-based models were largely robust. Overall, DiTOX uncovered 15 issues -- 14 previously unknown -- affecting 9 of the 47 optimization passes as well as the optimizer infrastructure. All issues were reported to the ONNX Optimizer developers. Our results demonstrate that DiTOX provides a simple and effective approach for validating AI model optimizers and is readily extensible beyond ONNX.
title DiTOX: Fault Detection and Localization in the ONNX Optimizer
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01892