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Verification plays an essential role in the formal analysis of safety-critical systems. Most current verification methods have specific requirements when working on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). They either target one particular network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Chi Zhang , Wenjie Ruan , Fu Wang , Peipei Xu , Geyong Min , Xiaowei Huang

A fundamental component of neural network verification is the computation of bounds on the values their outputs can take. Previous methods have either used off-the-shelf solvers, discarding the problem structure, or relaxed the problem even…

Machine learning models are increasingly deployed for critical decision-making tasks, making it important to verify that they do not contain gender or racial biases picked up from training data. Typical approaches to achieve fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Giorgian Borca-Tasciuc , Xingzhi Guo , Stanley Bak , Steven Skiena

One major drawback of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for use in safety critical applications is their black-box nature. This makes it hard to verify or monitor complex, symbolic requirements on already trained computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Gesina Schwalbe , Christian Wirth , Ute Schmid

Neural network verification aims to provide provable bounds for the output of a neural network for a given input range. Notable prior works in this domain have either generated bounds using abstract domains, which preserve some dependency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Matt Jordan , Jonathan Hayase , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sewoong Oh

Recent works show that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are highly non-robust with respect to adversarial attacks on both the graph structure and the node attributes, making their outcomes unreliable. We propose the first method for certifiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

The robustness of deep neural networks is crucial to modern AI-enabled systems and should be formally verified. Sigmoid-like neural networks have been adopted in a wide range of applications. Due to their non-linearity, Sigmoid-like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Zhaodi Zhang , Yiting Wu , Si Liu , Jing Liu , Min Zhang

We introduce two algorithms for computing tight guarantees on the probabilistic robustness of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs). Computing robustness guarantees for BNNs is a significantly more challenging task than verifying the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Ben Batten , Mehran Hosseini , Alessio Lomuscio

Neural network (NN) verification aims to formally verify properties of NNs, which is crucial for ensuring the behavior of NN-based models in safety-critical applications. In recent years, the community has developed many NN verifiers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xingjian Zhou , Keyi Shen , Andy Xu , Hongji Xu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Huan Zhang , Zhouxing Shi

In sequential decision making, neural networks (NNs) are nowadays commonly used to represent and learn the agent's policy. This area of application has implied new software quality assessment challenges that traditional validation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Q. Mazouni , H. Spieker , A. Gotlieb , M. Acher

Probabilistic models are a critical part of the modern deep learning toolbox - ranging from generative models (VAEs, GANs), sequence to sequence models used in machine translation and speech processing to models over functional spaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Marta Garnelo , Alhussein Fawzi , Pushmeet Kohli

Verifying the input-output relationships of a neural network so as to achieve some desired performance specification is a difficult, yet important, problem due to the growing ubiquity of neural nets in many engineering applications. We use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Joshua Pilipovsky , Vignesh Sivaramakrishnan , Meeko M. K. Oishi , Panagiotis Tsiotras

The growing use of deep neural networks in safety-critical applications makes it necessary to carry out adequate testing to detect and correct any incorrect behavior for corner case inputs before they can be actually used. Deep neural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Jasmine Sekhon , Cody Fleming

Neural networks are very successful at detecting patterns in noisy data, and have become the technology of choice in many fields. However, their usefulness is hampered by their susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Recently, many methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Marco Casadio , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew L. Daggitt , Wen Kokke , Guy Katz , Guy Amir , Idan Refaeli

Verifiable computing (VC) has gained prominence in decentralized machine learning systems, where resource-intensive tasks like deep neural network (DNN) inference are offloaded to external participants due to blockchain limitations. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ali Rahimi , Babak H. Khalaj , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

Great advances in deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of tasks. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which have brought great concerns when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Linyi Li , Tao Xie , Bo Li

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

Probably Approximately Correct (PAC) bounds are widely used to derive probabilistic guarantees for the generalisation of machine learning models. They highlight the components of the model which contribute to its generalisation capacity.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Thomas Walker , Alessio Lomuscio

Robustness verification that aims to formally certify the prediction behavior of neural networks has become an important tool for understanding model behavior and obtaining safety guarantees. However, previous methods can usually only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Zhouxing Shi , Huan Zhang , Kai-Wei Chang , Minlie Huang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Neural networks achieve outstanding accuracy in classification and regression tasks. However, understanding their behavior still remains an open challenge that requires questions to be addressed on the robustness, explainability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Anna-Kathrin Kopetzki , Stephan Günnemann