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This paper proposes a new algorithmic framework, predictor-verifier training, to train neural networks that are verifiable, i.e., networks that provably satisfy some desired input-output properties. The key idea is to simultaneously train…

Deep neural networks are widely used for nonlinear function approximation with applications ranging from computer vision to control. Although these networks involve the composition of simple arithmetic operations, it can be very challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Changliu Liu , Tomer Arnon , Christopher Lazarus , Christopher Strong , Clark Barrett , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Reinforcement learning often uses neural networks to solve complex control tasks. However, neural networks are sensitive to input perturbations, which makes their deployment in safety-critical environments challenging. This work lifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Manuel Wendl , Lukas Koller , Tobias Ladner , Matthias Althoff

We address the problem of maintaining high voltage power transmission networks in security at all time, namely anticipating exceeding of thermal limit for eventual single line disconnection (whatever its cause may be) by running slow, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-04 Benjamin Donnot , Isabelle Guyon , Antoine Marot , Marc Schoenauer , Patrick Panciatici

The success of neural networks across most machine learning tasks and the persistence of adversarial examples have made the verification of such models an important quest. Several techniques have been successfully developed to verify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Mohit Kumar Gupta

With the increasing scale of communication networks, the likelihood of failures grows as well. Since these networks form a critical backbone of our digital society, it is important that they rely on robust routing algorithms which ensure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Christoph Lenzen , Moti Medina , Mehrdad Saberi , Stefan Schmid

We present a novel framework for specifying and verifying correctness globally for neural networks on perception tasks. Most previous works on neural network verification for perception tasks focus on robustness verification. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yichen Yang , Martin Rinard

Most work on the formal verification of neural networks has focused on bounding the set of outputs that correspond to a given set of inputs (for example, bounded perturbations of a nominal input). However, many use cases of neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Suhas Kotha , Christopher Brix , Zico Kolter , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Huan Zhang

Implicit neural networks are a general class of learning models that replace the layers in traditional feedforward models with implicit algebraic equations. Compared to traditional learning models, implicit networks offer competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Saber Jafarpour , Matthew Abate , Alexander Davydov , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan

Recent work has shown that it is possible to learn neural networks with provable guarantees on the output of the model when subject to input perturbations, however these works have focused primarily on defending against adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Eric Wong , Tim Schneider , Joerg Schmitt , Frank R. Schmidt , J. Zico Kolter

Quantifying the robustness of neural networks or verifying their safety properties against input uncertainties or adversarial attacks have become an important research area in learning-enabled systems. Most results concentrate around the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Mahyar Fazlyab , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

This paper aims to enhance the computational efficiency of safety verification of neural network control systems by developing a guaranteed neural network model reduction method. First, a concept of model reduction precision is proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Weiming Xiang , Zhongzhu Shao

Neural network verifiers aim to provide formal guarantees on model behavior, but existing verification benchmarks are fundamentally limited by their lack of ground-truth labels. As a result, verifier evaluation relies on indirect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 David Troxell , Yulia Alexandr , Sofia Hunt , Stephanie Lei , Guido Montúfar

This paper introduces for the first time, to our knowledge, a framework for physics-informed neural networks in power system applications. Exploiting the underlying physical laws governing power systems, and inspired by recent developments…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-30 George S. Misyris , Andreas Venzke , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

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

Deep learning has emerged as an effective approach for creating modern software systems, with neural networks often surpassing hand-crafted systems. Unfortunately, neural networks are known to suffer from various safety and security issues.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Guy Amir , Haoze Wu , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

Deep neural networks have become widely used, obtaining remarkable results in domains such as computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, audio recognition, social network filtering, machine translation, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Divya Gopinath , Guy Katz , Corina S. Pasareanu , Clark Barrett

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

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

Machine learning algorithms, especially Neural Networks (NNs), are a valuable tool used to approximate non-linear relationships, like the AC-Optimal Power Flow (AC-OPF), with considerable accuracy -- and achieving a speedup of several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Rahul Nellikkath , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis