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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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable high performance across domains but remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting their use in safety-critical settings. Here, we introduce two quantum-optimization-based models for robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenxin Li , Wenchao Liu , Chuan Wang , Qi Gao , Yin Ma , Hai Wei , Kai Wen

Prediction accuracy and model explainability are the two most important objectives when developing machine learning algorithms to solve real-world problems. The neural networks are known to possess good prediction performance, but lack of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-04 Zebin Yang , Aijun Zhang , Agus Sudjianto

Neural networks have been extensively applied to a variety of tasks, achieving astounding results. Applying neural networks in the scientific field is an important research direction that is gaining increasing attention. In scientific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Tianyi Chen , Zhi-Qin John Xu

In this paper we investigate formal verification of extracted rules for Neural Networks under a complexity theoretic point of view. A rule is a global property or a pattern concerning a large portion of the input space of a network. These…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Adrian Wurm

While many approaches to make neural networks more fathomable have been proposed, they are restricted to interrogating the network with input data. Measures for characterizing and monitoring structural properties, however, have not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Bastian Rieck , Matteo Togninalli , Christian Bock , Michael Moor , Max Horn , Thomas Gumbsch , Karsten Borgwardt

Failures in satellite components are costly and challenging to address, often requiring significant human and material resources. Embedding a hybrid AI-based system for fault detection directly in the satellite can greatly reduce this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Delphine Longuet , Amira Elouazzani , Alejandro Penacho Riveiros , Nicola Bastianello

Deep neural networks have proved very successful in domains where large training sets are available, but when the number of training samples is small, their performance suffers from overfitting. Prior methods of reducing overfitting such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-28 Jiaji Huang , Qiang Qiu , Robert Calderbank , Guillermo Sapiro

We investigate the complexity of the reachability problem for (deep) neural networks: does it compute valid output given some valid input? It was recently claimed that the problem is NP-complete for general neural networks and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Marco Sälzer , Martin Lange

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in many vision and robotics applications with visual inputs. It is essential to verify its robustness against semantic transformation perturbations, such as brightness and contrast. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hanjiang Hu , Bowei Li , Ziwei Wang , Tianhao Wei , Casidhe Hutchison , Eric Sample , Changliu Liu

Despite existing work on ensuring generalization of neural networks in terms of scale sensitive complexity measures, such as norms, margin and sharpness, these complexity measures do not offer an explanation of why neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Behnam Neyshabur , Zhiyuan Li , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Yann LeCun , Nathan Srebro

The behaviour of neural network components must be proven correct before deployment in safety-critical systems. Unfortunately, existing neural network verification techniques cannot certify the absence of faults at the software level. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Edoardo Manino , Bruno Farias , Rafael Sá Menezes , Fedor Shmarov , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Neural networks are becoming a popular tool for solving many real-world problems such as object recognition and machine translation, thanks to its exceptional performance as an end-to-end solution. However, neural networks are complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Guoliang Dong , Jingyi Wang , Jun Sun , Yang Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Ting Dai , Jin Song Dong , Xingen Wang

Bounded model checking is among the most efficient techniques for the automatic verification of concurrent programs. However, encoding all possible interleavings often requires a huge and complex formula, which significantly limits the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Liangze Yin , Wei Dong , Wanwei Liu , Ji Wang

A recent line of work has shown that an overparametrized neural network can perfectly fit the training data, an otherwise often intractable nonconvex optimization problem. For (fully-connected) shallow networks, in the best case scenario,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Armin Eftekhari , ChaeHwan Song , Volkan Cevher

Understanding the uncertainty of a neural network's (NN) predictions is essential for many purposes. The Bayesian framework provides a principled approach to this, however applying it to NNs is challenging due to large numbers of parameters…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-27 Tim Pearce , Felix Leibfried , Alexandra Brintrup , Mohamed Zaki , Andy Neely

Trustworthy machine learning is of primary importance to the practical deployment of deep learning models. While state-of-the-art models achieve astonishingly good performance in terms of accuracy, recent literature reveals that their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Ailin Deng , Shen Li , Miao Xiong , Zhirui Chen , Bryan Hooi

The point estimates of ReLU classification networks---arguably the most widely used neural network architecture---have been shown to yield arbitrarily high confidence far away from the training data. This architecture, in conjunction with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-20 Agustinus Kristiadi , Matthias Hein , Philipp Hennig

Universal approximation theory offers a foundational framework to verify neural network expressiveness, enabling principled utilization in real-world applications. However, most existing theoretical constructions are established by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 ZeYu Li , ShiJun Zhang , TieYong Zeng , FengLei Fan

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