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We can compress a rectifier network while exactly preserving its underlying functionality with respect to a given input domain if some of its neurons are stable. However, current approaches to determine the stability of neurons with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Thiago Serra , Xin Yu , Abhinav Kumar , Srikumar Ramalingam

Despite their unmatched performance, deep neural networks remain susceptible to targeted attacks by nearly imperceptible levels of adversarial noise. While the underlying cause of this sensitivity is not well understood, theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 George Cazenavette , Calvin Murdock , Simon Lucey

In this paper, we present a deep learning-based framework for solving geometric construction problems through visual reasoning, which is useful for automated geometry theorem proving. Constructible problems in geometry often ask for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Man Fai Wong , Xintong Qi , Chee Wei Tan

We study a family of local depth-based corrections to maxmin landmark selection for lazy witness persistence. Starting from maxmin seeds, we partition the cloud into nearest-seed cells and replace or move each seed toward a deep…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yifan Zhang

Recent works have tried to increase the verifiability of adversarially trained networks by running the attacks over domains larger than the original perturbations and adding various regularization terms to the objective. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Alessandro De Palma , Rudy Bunel , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , M. Pawan Kumar , Robert Stanforth

Neural networks are part of many contemporary NLP systems, yet their empirical successes come at the price of vulnerability to adversarial attacks. Previous work has used adversarial training and data augmentation to partially mitigate such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Po-Sen Huang , Robert Stanforth , Johannes Welbl , Chris Dyer , Dani Yogatama , Sven Gowal , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Pushmeet Kohli

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

Neural certificates have emerged as a powerful tool in cyber-physical systems control, providing witnesses of correctness. These certificates, such as barrier functions, often learned alongside control policies, once verified, serve as…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Thomas A. Henzinger , Konstantin Kueffner , Emily Yu

We propose a general framework for deriving generalization bounds for parallel positively homogeneous neural networks--a class of neural networks whose input-output map decomposes as the sum of positively homogeneous maps. Examples of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Uday Kiran Reddy Tadipatri , Benjamin D. Haeffele , Joshua Agterberg , René Vidal

An interesting approach to analyzing neural networks that has received renewed attention is to examine the equivalent kernel of the neural network. This is based on the fact that a fully connected feedforward network with one hidden layer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Russell Tsuchida , Farbod Roosta-Khorasani , Marcus Gallagher

In this article we present new results on neural networks with linear threshold activation functions. We precisely characterize the class of functions that are representable by such neural networks and show that 2 hidden layers are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Sammy Khalife , Hongyu Cheng , Amitabh Basu

The new wave of adversarial attacks that utilize gradient-related vulnerabilities in neural network-based classifiers makes Network Intrusion Detection Systems more open to such threats. Although state-of-the-art adversarial training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hira Nasir , Eiman Javed , Balawal Shabir , Zunera Jalil , Ahmad Mohsin

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

Recent work has developed methods for learning deep network classifiers that are provably robust to norm-bounded adversarial perturbation; however, these methods are currently only possible for relatively small feedforward networks. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Eric Wong , Frank R. Schmidt , Jan Hendrik Metzen , J. Zico Kolter

Neural networks have been widely used to solve complex real-world problems. Due to the complicate, nonlinear, non-convex nature of neural networks, formal safety guarantees for the output behaviors of neural networks will be crucial for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Weiming Xiang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Taylor T. Johnson

Adversarial examples can easily degrade the classification performance in neural networks. Empirical methods for promoting robustness to such examples have been proposed, but often lack both analytical insights and formal guarantees.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Bernardo Aquino , Arash Rahnama , Peter Seiler , Lizhen Lin , Vijay Gupta

Recent studies have shown that attackers can catastrophically reduce the performance of GNNs by maliciously modifying the graph structure or node features on the graph. Adversarial training, which has been shown to be one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xiaobing Pei , Haoran Yang , Gang Shen

This work makes several contributions on stability and performance verification of nonlinear dynamical systems controlled by neural networks. First, we show that the stability and performance of a polynomial dynamical system controlled by a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-27 Milan Korda

A wide range of verification methods have been proposed to verify the safety properties of deep neural networks ensuring that the networks function correctly in critical applications. However, many well-known verification tools still…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yuyi Zhong , Ruiwei Wang , Siau-Cheng Khoo

Security assessment of large-scale, strongly nonlinear power grids containing thousands to millions of interacting components is a computationally expensive task. Targeting at reducing the computational cost, this paper introduces a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Thanh Long Vu , Konstantin Turitsyn