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This paper explores methods for verifying the properties of Binary Neural Networks (BNNs), focusing on robustness against adversarial attacks. Despite their lower computational and memory needs, BNNs, like their full-precision counterparts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Jianting Yang , Srećko Ðurašinović , Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron , Jun Zhao

Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable high performance across domains but remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting their use in safety-critical settings. Here, we introduce two quantum-optimization-based models for robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenxin Li , Wenchao Liu , Chuan Wang , Qi Gao , Yin Ma , Hai Wei , Kai Wen

Although neural networks are widely used, it remains challenging to formally verify the safety and robustness of neural networks in real-world applications. Existing methods are designed to verify the network before deployment, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Tianhao Wei , Changliu Liu

Probabilistic verification problems of neural networks are concerned with formally analysing the output distribution of a neural network under a probability distribution of the inputs. Examples of probabilistic verification problems include…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 David Boetius , Stefan Leue , Tobias Sutter

We present a technique for neural network verification using mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations. We derive a \emph{strong formulation} for each neuron in a network using piecewise linear activation functions. Additionally, as in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Tu Anh-Nguyen , Joey Huchette

Although neural networks have been applied to several systems in recent years, they still cannot be used in safety-critical systems due to the lack of efficient techniques to certify their robustness. A number of techniques based on convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ziye Ma , Somayeh Sojoudi

With the increasing application of deep learning in mission-critical systems, there is a growing need to obtain formal guarantees about the behaviors of neural networks. Indeed, many approaches for verifying neural networks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Tom Zelazny , Haoze Wu , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become key components of many safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving and medical diagnosis. However, DNNs have been shown suffering from poor robustness because of their susceptibility to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Wenjie Wan , Zhaodi Zhang , Yiwei Zhu , Min Zhang , Fu Song

We present the Branch-and-Bound Performance Estimation Programming (BnB-PEP), a unified methodology for constructing optimal first-order methods for convex and nonconvex optimization. BnB-PEP poses the problem of finding the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Shuvomoy Das Gupta , Bart P. G. Van Parys , Ernest K. Ryu

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 behaviors of neural network systems will be crucial for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Weiming Xiang , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Patrick Musau , Taylor T. Johnson

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

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

Inspired by recent successes with parallel optimization techniques for solving Boolean satisfiability, we investigate a set of strategies and heuristics that aim to leverage parallel computing to improve the scalability of neural network…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Haoze Wu , Alex Ozdemir , Aleksandar Zeljić , Ahmed Irfan , Kyle Julian , Divya Gopinath , Sadjad Fouladi , Guy Katz , Corina Pasareanu , Clark Barrett

Neural networks are commonly used in safety-critical real-world applications. Unfortunately, the predicted output is often highly sensitive to small, and possibly imperceptible, changes to the input data. Proving that either no such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Christopher Brix , Thomas Noll

Robustness certification against bounded input noise or adversarial perturbations is increasingly important for deployment recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in safety-critical control applications. To address this challenge, we present…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Paul Hamelbeck , Johannes Schiffer

State-of-the-art neural network verifiers operate by encoding neural network verification as constraint satisfaction problems. When dealing with standard piecewise-linear activation functions, such as ReLUs, verifiers typically employ…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Maya Swisa , Guy Katz

Most work on the formal verification of neural networks has focused on bounding the set of outputs that correspond to a given set of inputs (for example, bounded perturbations of a nominal input). However, many use cases of neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Suhas Kotha , Christopher Brix , Zico Kolter , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Huan Zhang

Computational tools for rigorously verifying the performance of large-scale machine learning (ML) models have progressed significantly in recent years. The most successful solvers employ highly specialized, GPU-accelerated branch and bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Samuel Chevalier , Ilgiz Murzakhanov , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Recent works have shown that interval bound propagation (IBP) can be used to train verifiably robust neural networks. Reseachers observe an intriguing phenomenon on these IBP trained networks: CROWN, a bounding method based on tight linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zhaoyang Lyu , Minghao Guo , Tong Wu , Guodong Xu , Kehuan Zhang , Dahua Lin

In this paper, we introduce BNN-DP, an efficient algorithmic framework for analysis of adversarial robustness of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs). Given a compact set of input points $T\subset \mathbb{R}^n$, BNN-DP computes lower and upper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Steven Adams , Andrea Patane , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti