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Robust Bayesian inference is the calculation of posterior probability bounds given perturbations in a probabilistic model. This paper focuses on perturbations that can be expressed locally in Bayesian networks through convex sets of…

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Deep networks with continuous piecewise affine activations induce polyhedral partitions of the input space, making the number of realized affine regions a natural measure of expressive capacity and a key determinant of how well the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yi Wei , Xuan Qi , Furao Shen

Training certifiable neural networks enables one to obtain models with robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks. In this work, we introduce a framework to bound the adversary-free region in the neighborhood of the input data by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Chen Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Sabine Süsstrunk

In this paper, we present a local geometric analysis to interpret how deep feedforward neural networks extract low-dimensional features from high-dimensional data. Our study shows that, in a local geometric region, the optimal weight in one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Tasmeen Zaman Ornee , Yin Sun

We study robustness verification of neural networks via metric algebraic geometry. For polynomial neural networks, certifying a robustness radius amounts to computing the distance to the algebraic decision boundary. We use the Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-20 Yulia Alexandr , Hao Duan , Guido Montúfar

We provide a theoretical algorithm for checking local optimality and escaping saddles at nondifferentiable points of empirical risks of two-layer ReLU networks. Our algorithm receives any parameter value and returns: local minimum,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-30 Chulhee Yun , Suvrit Sra , Ali Jadbabaie

Generative neural networks can be used to specify continuous transformations between images via latent-space interpolation. However, certifying that all images captured by the resulting path in the image manifold satisfy a given property…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Matthew Mirman , Timon Gehr , Martin Vechev

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to small perturbations that can drastically alter their predictions for perceptually unchanged inputs. The literature on adversarially robust Deep Learning attempts to either enhance the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Thomas Massena , Corentin Friedrich , Franck Mamalet , Mathieu Serrurier

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

This work addresses the certification of the local robustness of vision-based two-stage 6D object pose estimation. The two-stage method for object pose estimation achieves superior accuracy by first employing deep neural network-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xusheng Luo , Tianhao Wei , Simin Liu , Ziwei Wang , Luis Mattei-Mendez , Taylor Loper , Joshua Neighbor , Casidhe Hutchison , Changliu Liu

We introduce the concept of provably robust adversarial examples for deep neural networks - connected input regions constructed from standard adversarial examples which are guaranteed to be robust to a set of real-world perturbations (such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Dimitar I. Dimitrov , Gagandeep Singh , Timon Gehr , Martin Vechev

Neural networks (NNs) are now routinely implemented on systems that must operate in uncertain environments, but the tools for formally analyzing how this uncertainty propagates to NN outputs are not yet commonplace. Computing tight bounds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Michael Everett , Golnaz Habibi , Jonathan P. How

Verification of neural networks enables us to gauge their robustness against adversarial attacks. Verification algorithms fall into two categories: exact verifiers that run in exponential time and relaxed verifiers that are efficient but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Hadi Salman , Greg Yang , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Pengchuan Zhang

Traditional deep network training methods optimize a monolithic objective function jointly for all the components. This can lead to various inefficiencies in terms of potential parallelization. Local learning is an approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Adeetya Patel , Michael Eickenberg , Eugene Belilovsky

The robustness of a neural network to adversarial examples can be provably certified by solving a convex relaxation. If the relaxation is loose, however, then the resulting certificate can be too conservative to be practically useful.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Richard Y. Zhang

Models for image segmentation, node classification and many other tasks map a single input to multiple labels. By perturbing this single shared input (e.g. the image) an adversary can manipulate several predictions (e.g. misclassify several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jan Schuchardt , Tom Wollschläger , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

We propose a decentralised "local2global" approach to graph representation learning, that one can a-priori use to scale any embedding technique. Our local2global approach proceeds by first dividing the input graph into overlapping subgraphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Lucas G. S. Jeub , Giovanni Colavizza , Xiaowen Dong , Marya Bazzi , Mihai Cucuringu

In this paper we investigate formal verification problems for Neural Network computations. Of central importance will be various robustness and minimization problems such as: Given symbolic specifications of allowed inputs and outputs in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Adrian Wurm

In recent years, the notion of local robustness (or robustness for short) has emerged as a desirable property of deep neural networks. Intuitively, robustness means that small perturbations to an input do not cause the network to perform…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Greg Anderson , Shankara Pailoor , Isil Dillig , Swarat Chaudhuri

With the increment of interest in leveraging machine learning technology in safety-critical systems, the robustness of neural networks under external disturbance receives more and more concerns. Global robustness is a robustness property…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Zhilu Wang , Yixuan Wang , Feisi Fu , Ruochen Jiao , Chao Huang , Wenchao Li , Qi Zhu