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Reinforcement learning often uses neural networks to solve complex control tasks. However, neural networks are sensitive to input perturbations, which makes their deployment in safety-critical environments challenging. This work lifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Manuel Wendl , Lukas Koller , Tobias Ladner , Matthias Althoff

There is an emerging trend in applying deep learning methods to control complex nonlinear systems. This paper considers enhancing the runtime safety of nonlinear systems controlled by neural networks in the presence of disturbance and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Jianglin Lan , Siyuan Zhan , Ron Patton , Xianxian Zhao

Deep Neural Networks are increasingly adopted in critical tasks that require a high level of safety, e.g., autonomous driving. While state-of-the-art verifiers can be employed to check whether a DNN is unsafe w.r.t. some given property…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Luca Marzari , Davide Corsi , Ferdinando Cicalese , Alessandro Farinelli

Deep learning has transformed the way we think of software and what it can do. But deep neural networks are fragile and their behaviors are often surprising. In many settings, we need to provide formal guarantees on the safety, security,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Aws Albarghouthi

This paper describes a verification case study on an autonomous racing car with a neural network (NN) controller. Although several verification approaches have been proposed over the last year, they have only been evaluated on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Radoslav Ivanov , Taylor J. Carpenter , James Weimer , Rajeev Alur , George J. Pappas , Insup Lee

Neural network verification tools currently support only a narrow class of specifications, typically expressed as low-level constraints over raw inputs and outputs. This limitation significantly hinders their adoption and practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yizhak Y. Elboher , Reuven Peleg , Zhouxing Shi , Guy Katz , Jan Křetínský

Recurrent neural network (RNN) is an effective neural network in solving very complex supervised and unsupervised tasks. There has been a significant improvement in RNN field such as natural language processing, speech processing, computer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Mohammed Harun Babu R , Vinayakumar R , Soman KP

In sequential decision making, neural networks (NNs) are nowadays commonly used to represent and learn the agent's policy. This area of application has implied new software quality assessment challenges that traditional validation and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Q. Mazouni , H. Spieker , A. Gotlieb , M. Acher

We develop the first (to the best of our knowledge) provably correct neural networks for a precise computational task, with the proof of correctness generated by an automated verification algorithm without any human input. Prior work on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Rudy Bunel , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , M. Pawan Kumar , Alessandro De Palma , Robert Stanforth

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

The solution of linear inverse problems arising, for example, in signal and image processing is a challenging problem since the ill-conditioning amplifies, in the solution, the noise present in the data. Recently introduced algorithms based…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Davide Evangelista , James Nagy , Elena Morotti , Elena Loli Piccolomini

With the widespread deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs), ensuring the reliability of DNN-based systems is of great importance. Serious reliability issues such as system failures can be caused by numerical defects, one of the most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Linyi Li , Yuhao Zhang , Luyao Ren , Yingfei Xiong , Tao Xie

Model-based reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising tool for developing controllers for real world systems (e.g., robotics, autonomous driving, etc.). However, real systems often have constraints imposed on their state space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Akshita Gupta , Inseok Hwang

This paper aims to enhance the computational efficiency of safety verification of neural network control systems by developing a guaranteed neural network model reduction method. First, a concept of model reduction precision is proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Weiming Xiang , Zhongzhu Shao

Adaptivity in multi-function radar systems is rapidly increasing, especially when moving towards fully adaptive, cognitive radar systems. However, the large number of available system configurations makes the rigorous verification and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-21 Pepijn Cox , Mario Coutino , Giuseppe Papari , Ahmad Mouri Sardarabadi , Laura Anitori

Recently, there is growing concern that machine-learning models, which currently assist or even automate decision making, reproduce, and in the worst case reinforce, bias of the training data. The development of tools and techniques for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Caterina Urban , Maria Christakis , Valentin Wüstholz , Fuyuan Zhang

Barrier certificates play an important role in verifying the safety of continuous-time systems, including autonomous driving, robotic manipulators and other critical applications. Recently, ReLU neural barrier certificates -- barrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Dejin Ren , Yiling Xue , Taoran Wu , Bai Xue

We present a novel technique for online safety verification of autonomous systems, which performs reachability analysis efficiently for both bounded and unbounded horizons by employing neural barrier certificates. Our approach uses barrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Alessandro Abate , Sergiy Bogomolov , Alec Edwards , Kostiantyn Potomkin , Sadegh Soudjani , Paolo Zuliani

With edge-AI finding an increasing number of real-world applications, especially in industry, the question of functionally safe applications using AI has begun to be asked. In this body of work, we explore the issue of achieving dependable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Hans Dermot Doran , Gianluca Ielpo , David Ganz , Michael Zapke

As the potential for neural networks to augment our daily lives grows, ensuring their quality through effective testing, debugging, and maintenance is essential. This is especially the case as we acknowledge the prospects of negative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Fatema Tuz Zohra , Brittany Johnson