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Lipschitz constants are connected to many properties of neural networks, such as robustness, fairness, and generalization. Existing methods for computing Lipschitz constants either produce relatively loose upper bounds or are limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Zhouxing Shi , Yihan Wang , Huan Zhang , Zico Kolter , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Empirical studies have widely demonstrated that neural networks are highly sensitive to small, adversarial perturbations of the input. The worst-case robustness against these so-called adversarial examples can be quantified by the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-03 Paul Geuchen , Dominik Stöger , Thomas Telaar , Felix Voigtlaender

Recently, contrastive learning has found impressive success in advancing the state of the art in solving various machine learning tasks. However, the existing generalization analysis is very limited or even not meaningful. In particular,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yunwen Lei , Tianbao Yang , Yiming Ying , Ding-Xuan Zhou

In this work we propose lifted regression/reconstruction networks (LRRNs), which combine lifted neural networks with a guaranteed Lipschitz continuity property for the output layer. Lifted neural networks explicitly optimize an energy model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Rasmus Kjær Høier , Christopher Zach

In this paper, we present BERN-NN as an efficient tool to perform bound propagation of Neural Networks (NNs). Bound propagation is a critical step in wide range of NN model checkers and reachability analysis tools. Given a bounded input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Wael Fatnassi , Haitham Khedr , Valen Yamamoto , Yasser Shoukry

The Lipschitz constant of neural networks has been established as a key quantity to enforce the robustness to adversarial examples. In this paper, we tackle the problem of building $1$-Lipschitz Neural Networks. By studying Residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Laurent Meunier , Blaise Delattre , Alexandre Araujo , Alexandre Allauzen

Lipschitz constants of neural networks have been explored in various contexts in deep learning, such as provable adversarial robustness, estimating Wasserstein distance, stabilising training of GANs, and formulating invertible neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Hyunjik Kim , George Papamakarios , Andriy Mnih

The optimization foundations of deep linear networks have recently received significant attention. However, due to their inherent non-convexity and hierarchical structure, analyzing the loss functions of deep linear networks remains a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Po Chen , Rujun Jiang , Peng Wang

This paper introduces a measure, called Lipschitz widths, of the optimal performance possible of certain nonlinear methods of approximation. It discusses their relation to entropy numbers and other well known widths such as the Kolmogorov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Guergana Petrova , Przemyslaw Wojtaszczyk

The Lipschitz constant of a neural network is connected to several important properties of the network such as its robustness and generalization. It is thus useful in many settings to estimate the Lipschitz constant of a model. Prior work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Giannis Nikolentzos , Konstantinos Skianis

The convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be a powerful tool for discriminative learning. Recently researchers have also started to show interest in the generative aspects of CNNs in order to gain a deeper understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Jifeng Dai , Yang Lu , Ying-Nian Wu

While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have long been investigated and applied, as well as theorized, we aim to provide a slightly different perspective into their nature -- through the perspective of their Hessian maps. The reason is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Sidak Pal Singh , Thomas Hofmann , Bernhard Schölkopf

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in various fields, particularly in the domain of computer vision. However, why this architecture works well remains to be a mystery. In this work we move a small step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Bing Yu , Junzhao Zhang , Zhanxing Zhu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a popular class of machine learning models whose major advantage is their ability to incorporate a sparse and discrete dependency structure between data points. Unfortunately, GNNs can only be used when such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Luca Franceschi , Mathias Niepert , Massimiliano Pontil , Xiao He

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) possess many positive qualities when it comes to spatial raster data. Translation invariance enables CNNs to detect features regardless of their position in the scene. However, in some domains, like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Arnas Uselis , Mantas Lukoševičius , Lukas Stasytis

The research for characterizing GNN expressiveness attracts much attention as graph neural networks achieve a champion in the last five years. The number of linear regions has been considered a good measure for the expressivity of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Hao Chen , Yu Guang Wang , Huan Xiong

Neural network pruning techniques reduce the number of parameters without compromising predicting ability of a network. Many algorithms have been developed for pruning both over-parameterized fully-connected networks (FCNs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Xin Qian , Diego Klabjan

Neuroscientists classify neurons into different types that perform similar computations at different locations in the visual field. Traditional methods for neural system identification do not capitalize on this separation of 'what' and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-30 David A. Klindt , Alexander S. Ecker , Thomas Euler , Matthias Bethge

Existing generalization bounds for deep neural networks require data to be independent and identically distributed (iid). This assumption may not hold in real-life applications such as evolutionary biology, infectious disease epidemiology,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-10 Quan Huu Do , Binh T. Nguyen , Lam Si Tung Ho

This paper introduces a new parameterization of deep neural networks (both fully-connected and convolutional) with guaranteed $\ell^2$ Lipschitz bounds, i.e. limited sensitivity to input perturbations. The Lipschitz guarantees are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester