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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

Neural networks can learn complex, non-convex functions, and it is challenging to guarantee their correct behavior in safety-critical contexts. Many approaches exist to find failures in networks (e.g., adversarial examples), but these…

Recent work has exposed the vulnerability of computer vision models to vector field attacks. Due to the widespread usage of such models in safety-critical applications, it is crucial to quantify their robustness against such spatial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Anian Ruoss , Maximilian Baader , Mislav Balunović , Martin Vechev

Deep Learning (DL) is increasingly used in safety-critical applications, raising concerns about its reliability. DL suffers from a well-known problem of lacking robustness, especially when faced with adversarial perturbations known as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Wei Huang , Xingyu Zhao , Alec Banks , Victoria Cox , Xiaowei Huang

This theoretical paper is devoted to developing a rigorous theory for demystifying the global convergence phenomenon in a challenging scenario: learning over-parameterized Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) nets for very high dimensional dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Peng He

We introduce DeepCert, a tool-supported method for verifying the robustness of deep neural network (DNN) image classifiers to contextually relevant perturbations such as blur, haze, and changes in image contrast. While the robustness of DNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Colin Paterson , Haoze Wu , John Grese , Radu Calinescu , Corina S. Pasareanu , Clark Barrett

The reliable deployment of neural networks in control systems requires rigorous robustness guarantees. In this paper, we obtain tight robustness certificates over convex attack sets for min-max representations of ReLU neural networks by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Brendon G. Anderson , Samuel Pfrommer , Somayeh Sojoudi

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

Solving non-convex, NP-hard optimization problems is crucial for training machine learning models, including neural networks. However, non-convexity often leads to black-box machine learning models with unclear inner workings. While convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Karthik Prakhya , Tolga Birdal , Alp Yurtsever

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 propose a method to learn deep ReLU-based classifiers that are provably robust against norm-bounded adversarial perturbations on the training data. For previously unseen examples, the approach is guaranteed to detect all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

Neural networks achieve strong empirical performance, but robustness concerns still hinder deployment in safety-critical applications. Formal verification provides robustness guarantees, but current methods face a scalability-completeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenting Li , Saif R. Kazi , Russell Bent , Duo Zhou , Huan Zhang

Adversarial robustness corresponds to the susceptibility of deep neural networks to imperceptible perturbations made at test time. In the context of image tasks, many algorithms have been proposed to make neural networks robust to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Pranjal Awasthi , George Yu , Chun-Sung Ferng , Andrew Tomkins , Da-Cheng Juan

It has been shown that neural network classifiers are not robust. This raises concerns about their usage in safety-critical systems. We propose in this paper a regularization scheme for ReLU networks which provably improves the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Francesco Croce , Maksym Andriushchenko , Matthias Hein

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

Despite their impressive performance on diverse tasks, neural networks fail catastrophically in the presence of adversarial inputs---imperceptibly but adversarially perturbed versions of natural inputs. We have witnessed an arms race…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Aditi Raghunathan , Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

We present a simple proof for the benefit of depth in multi-layer feedforward network with rectified activation ("depth separation"). Specifically we present a sequence of classification problems indexed by $m$ such that (a) for any fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Asaf Amrami , Yoav Goldberg

Robustness against adversarial attack in neural networks is an important research topic in the machine learning community. We observe one major source of vulnerability of neural nets is from overparameterized fully-connected layers. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Bingyuan Liu , Christopher Malon , Lingzhou Xue , Erik Kruus

The robustness of deep neural networks has received significant interest recently, especially when being deployed in safety-critical systems, as it is important to analyze how sensitive the model output is under input perturbations. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhilu Wang , Chao Huang , Qi Zhu

A globally robust deep neural network resists perturbations on all meaningful inputs. Current robustness certification methods emphasize local robustness, struggling to scale and generalize. This paper presents a systematic and efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 You Li , Guannan Zhao , Shuyu Kong , Yunqi He , Hai Zhou