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In this paper, we study certifying the robustness of ReLU neural networks against adversarial input perturbations. To diminish the relaxation error suffered by the popular linear programming (LP) and semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Brendon G. Anderson , Ziye Ma , Jingqi Li , Somayeh Sojoudi

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a widely used technique for recovering low-rank structure from matrices with missing entries and sparse, possibly large-magnitude corruptions. Although numerous algorithms achieve accurate point…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-17 Liangliang Yuan , Lei Wang , Quan Kong , Liuhua Peng

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to so-called adversarial examples: inputs which are intentionally constructed to cause the model to make incorrect predictions or classifications. Adversarial examples are often visually indistinguishable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Jonathan Peck , Bart Goossens

Robust principal component analysis (RPCA) is a critical tool in modern machine learning, which detects outliers in the task of low-rank matrix reconstruction. In this paper, we propose a scalable and learnable non-convex approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 HanQin Cai , Jialin Liu , Wotao Yin

This paper presents a simulation free framework for solving reliability analysis problems. The method proposed is rooted in a recently developed deep learning approach, referred to as the physics-informed neural network. The primary idea is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-16 Souvik Chakraborty

Existing work in trustworthy machine learning primarily focuses on single-input adversarial perturbations. In many real-world attack scenarios, input-agnostic adversarial attacks, e.g. universal adversarial perturbations (UAPs), are much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Changming Xu , Gagandeep Singh

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which are small, imperceptible perturbations that can significantly alter the network's output. Conversely, there may exist large, meaningful perturbations that do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tianqi Cui , Thomas Bertalan , George J. Pappas , Manfred Morari , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Mahyar Fazlyab

Understanding the reliability of natural language generation is critical for deploying foundation models in security-sensitive domains. While certified poisoning defenses provide provable robustness bounds for classification tasks, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Mihnea Ghitu , Matthew Wicker

This paper proposes a novel, abstraction-based, certified training method for robust image classifiers. Via abstraction, all perturbed images are mapped into intervals before feeding into neural networks for training. By training on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Zhaodi Zhang , Zhiyi Xue , Yang Chen , Si Liu , Yueling Zhang , Jing Liu , Min Zhang

Certifiable robustness is a highly desirable property for adopting deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical scenarios, but often demands tedious computations to establish. The main hurdle lies in the massive amount of non-linearity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Tianlong Chen , Huan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Neural network (NN) controllers achieve strong empirical performance on nonlinear dynamical systems, yet deploying them in safety-critical settings requires robustness to disturbances and uncertainty. We present a method for jointly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Neelay Junnarkar , Yasin Sonmez , Murat Arcak

Deep neural networks process data through a cascade of representations: input features, hidden activations, logits, and loss. While perturbations at the input, logit, and label levels have been systematically studied, the intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hua Li

Verifying the robustness property of a general Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) network is an NP-complete problem [Katz, Barrett, Dill, Julian and Kochenderfer CAV17]. Although finding the exact minimum adversarial distortion is hard, giving a…

The existence of adversarial examples poses a real danger when deep neural networks are deployed in the real world. The go-to strategy to quantify this vulnerability is to evaluate the model against specific attack algorithms. This approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kevin Roth

Training modern neural networks is increasingly fragile, with rare but severe destabilizing updates often causing irreversible divergence or silent performance degradation. Existing optimization methods primarily rely on preventive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Barak Or

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

Flat regions of the neural network loss landscape have long been hypothesized to correlate with better generalization properties. A closely related but distinct problem is training models that are robust to internal perturbations to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Philip Jacobson , Ben Feinberg , Suhas Kumar , Sapan Agarwal , T. Patrick Xiao , Christopher Bennett

While neural networks have achieved high accuracy on standard image classification benchmarks, their accuracy drops to nearly zero in the presence of small adversarial perturbations to test inputs. Defenses based on regularization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Aditi Raghunathan , Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

Model-based reinforcement learning has attracted much attention due to its high sample efficiency and is expected to be applied to real-world robotic applications. In the real world, as unobservable disturbances can lead to unexpected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Taisuke Kobayashi

For a given stable recurrent neural network (RNN) that is trained to perform a classification task using sequential inputs, we quantify explicit robustness bounds as a function of trainable weight matrices. The sequential inputs can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Martin Takac , Nader Motee