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This paper tackles the problem of Lipschitz regularization of Convolutional Neural Networks. Lipschitz regularity is now established as a key property of modern deep learning with implications in training stability, generalization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Alexandre Araujo , Benjamin Negrevergne , Yann Chevaleyre , Jamal Atif

Lipschitz constant is a fundamental property in certified robustness, as smaller values imply robustness to adversarial examples when a model is confident in its prediction. However, identifying the worst-case adversarial examples is known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongjin Han , Suhyun Kim

Lipschitz continuity is a crucial functional property of any predictive model, that naturally governs its robustness, generalisation, as well as adversarial vulnerability. Contrary to other works that focus on obtaining tighter bounds and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Grigory Khromov , Sidak Pal Singh

The Lipschitz constant of a neural network is connected to several important properties of the network such as its robustness and generalization. It is thus useful in many settings to estimate the Lipschitz constant of a model. Prior work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Giannis Nikolentzos , Konstantinos Skianis

We introduce LiPopt, a polynomial optimization framework for computing increasingly tighter upper bounds on the Lipschitz constant of neural networks. The underlying optimization problems boil down to either linear (LP) or semidefinite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Fabian Latorre , Paul Rolland , Volkan Cevher

Several recent papers have discussed utilizing Lipschitz constants to limit the susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial examples. We analyze recently proposed methods for computing the Lipschitz constant. We show that the Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Todd Huster , Cho-Yu Jason Chiang , Ritu Chadha

Tight estimation of the Lipschitz constant for deep neural networks (DNNs) is useful in many applications ranging from robustness certification of classifiers to stability analysis of closed-loop systems with reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mahyar Fazlyab , Alexander Robey , Hamed Hassani , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

We study proximal random reshuffling for minimizing the sum of locally Lipschitz functions and a proper lower semicontinuous convex function without assuming coercivity or the existence of limit points. The algorithmic guarantees pertaining…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-15 Cedric Josz , Lexiao Lai , Xiaopeng Li

Deep Networks have been shown to provide state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning challenges. Unfortunately, they are susceptible to various types of noise, including adversarial attacks and corrupted inputs. In this work we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Carlos Lassance , Vincent Gripon , Jian Tang , Antonio Ortega

Fast and precise Lipschitz constant estimation of neural networks is an important task for deep learning. Researchers have recently found an intrinsic trade-off between the accuracy and smoothness of neural networks, so training a network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Zi Wang , Gautam Prakriya , Somesh Jha

We demonstrate two new important properties of the 1-path-norm of shallow neural networks. First, despite its non-smoothness and non-convexity it allows a closed form proximal operator which can be efficiently computed, allowing the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Fabian Latorre , Paul Rolland , Nadav Hallak , Volkan Cevher

Lipschitz constants of neural networks have been explored in various contexts in deep learning, such as provable adversarial robustness, estimating Wasserstein distance, stabilising training of GANs, and formulating invertible neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Hyunjik Kim , George Papamakarios , Andriy Mnih

We investigate robustness of deep feed-forward neural networks when input data are subject to random uncertainties. More specifically, we consider regularization of the network by its Lipschitz constant and emphasize its role. We highlight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Nicolas Couellan

Robustness with respect to weight perturbations underpins guarantees for generalization, pruning and quantization. Existing guarantees rely on Lipschitz bounds in parameter space, cover only plain feed-forward MLPs, and break under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Antoine Gonon , Nicolas Brisebarre , Elisa Riccietti , Rémi Gribonval

We consider the problem of learning an unknown ReLU network with respect to Gaussian inputs and obtain the first nontrivial results for networks of depth more than two. We give an algorithm whose running time is a fixed polynomial in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Sitan Chen , Adam R. Klivans , Raghu Meka

Obtaining sharp Lipschitz constants for feed-forward neural networks is essential to assess their robustness in the face of perturbations of their inputs. We derive such constants in the context of a general layered network model involving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Patrick L. Combettes , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Training neural networks under a strict Lipschitz constraint is useful for provable adversarial robustness, generalization bounds, interpretable gradients, and Wasserstein distance estimation. By the composition property of Lipschitz…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Cem Anil , James Lucas , Roger Grosse

Relying on the premise that the performance of a binary neural network can be largely restored with eliminated quantization error between full-precision weight vectors and their corresponding binary vectors, existing works of network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yuzhang Shang , Dan Xu , Bin Duan , Ziliang Zong , Liqiang Nie , Yan Yan

We consider a neural network architecture with randomized features, a sign-splitter, followed by rectified linear units (ReLU). We prove that our architecture exhibits robustness to the input perturbation: the output feature of the neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-14 Arun Venkitaraman , Alireza M. Javid , Saikat Chatterjee

Designing neural networks with bounded Lipschitz constant is a promising way to obtain certifiably robust classifiers against adversarial examples. However, the relevant progress for the important $\ell_\infty$ perturbation setting is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Bohang Zhang , Du Jiang , Di He , Liwei Wang