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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown lack of robustness for the vulnerability of their classification to small perturbations on the inputs. This has led to safety concerns of applying DNNs to safety-critical domains. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Jianlin Li , Pengfei Yang , Jiangchao Liu , Liqian Chen , Xiaowei Huang , Lijun Zhang

Deep Neural Networks are increasingly adopted in critical tasks that require a high level of safety, e.g., autonomous driving. While state-of-the-art verifiers can be employed to check whether a DNN is unsafe w.r.t. some given property…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Luca Marzari , Davide Corsi , Ferdinando Cicalese , Alessandro Farinelli

Formal verification of neural networks is essential for their deployment in safety-critical areas. Many available formal verification methods have been shown to be instances of a unified Branch and Bound (BaB) formulation. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jingyue Lu , M. Pawan Kumar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are becoming a key component in diverse systems across the board. However, despite their success, they often err miserably; and this has triggered significant interest in formally verifying them. Unfortunately,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Raya Elsaleh , Guy Katz

Modern verification tools for deep neural networks (DNNs) increasingly rely on abstraction to scale to realistic architectures. In parallel, proof production is becoming a critical requirement for increasing the reliability of DNN…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yizhak Yisrael Elboher , Omri Isac , Guy Katz , Tobias Ladner , Haoze Wu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rapidly gaining popularity in a variety of important domains. Formally, DNNs are complicated vector-valued functions which come in a variety of sizes and applications. Unfortunately, modern DNNs have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Matthew Sotoudeh , Aditya V. Thakur

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are increasingly used in a variety of applications, many of them with substantial safety and security concerns. This paper introduces DeepCheck, a new approach for validating DNNs based on core ideas from program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Divya Gopinath , Kaiyuan Wang , Mengshi Zhang , Corina S. Pasareanu , Sarfraz Khurshid

The rise of deep learning has led to various successful attempts to apply deep neural networks (DNNs) for important networking tasks such as intrusion detection. Yet, running DNNs in the network control plane, as typically done in existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Kamran Razavi , Shayan Davari Fard , George Karlos , Vinod Nigade , Max Mühlhäuser , Lin Wang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are rapidly being applied to safety-critical domains such as drone and airplane control, motivating techniques for verifying the safety of their behavior. Unfortunately, DNN verification is NP-hard, with current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Matthew Sotoudeh , Aditya V. Thakur

Building large models with parameter sharing accounts for most of the success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we propose doubly convolutional neural networks (DCNNs), which significantly improve the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Shuangfei Zhai , Yu Cheng , Weining Lu , Zhongfei Zhang

The lack of mathematical tractability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has hindered progress towards having a unified convergence analysis of training algorithms, in the general setting. We propose a unified optimization framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Hadi Ghauch , Hossein Shokri-Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione , Mikael Skoglund

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used as controllers for safety-critical systems. Because neural networks are opaque, certifying their correctness is a significant challenge. To address this issue, several neural network…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Yizhak Yisrael Elboher , Justin Gottschlich , Guy Katz

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are built using artificial neural networks. They are part of machine learning methods that are capable of learning from data that have been used in a wide range of applications. DNNs are mainly handcrafted and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Mohammed Al-Rawi

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have found numerous applications in various domains, including fraud detection, medical diagnosis, facial recognition, and autonomous driving. However, DNN-based systems often suffer from reliability issues due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Sigma Jahan , Mehil B Shah , Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications including autonomous vehicles and medical diagnostics. To reduce the residual risk for unexpected DNN behaviour and provide evidence for their trustworthy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Hasan Ferit Eniser , Simos Gerasimou , Alper Sen

While deep neural networks (DNN) have become an effective computational tool, the prediction results are often criticized by the lack of interpretability, which is essential in many real-world applications such as health informatics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu , Qingquan Song , Xia Hu

Formal verification has emerged as a powerful approach to ensure the safety and reliability of deep neural networks. However, current verification tools are limited to only a handful of properties that can be expressed as first-order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Xuan Xie , Kristian Kersting , Daniel Neider

Deep neural networks (DNNs) may outperform human brains in complex tasks, but the lack of transparency in their decision-making processes makes us question whether we could fully trust DNNs with high stakes problems. As DNNs' operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Jung Hoon Lee

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have gained significant popularity in recent years, becoming the state of the art in a variety of domains. In particular, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently been employed to train DNNs that realize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Guy Amir , Michael Schapira , Guy Katz