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A new approach for robust Hinfty filtering for a class of Lipschitz nonlinear systems with time-varying uncertainties both in the linear and nonlinear parts of the system is proposed in an LMI framework. The admissible Lipschitz constant of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Masoud Abbaszadeh , Horacio J. Marquez

We propose an input convex neural network (ICNN)-based self-supervised learning framework to solve continuous constrained optimization problems. By integrating the augmented Lagrangian method (ALM) with the constraint correction mechanism,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Kang Liu , Wei Peng , Jianchen Hu

Neural networks offer a computationally efficient approximation of model predictive control, but they lack guarantees on the resulting controlled system's properties. Formal certification of neural networks is crucial for ensuring safety,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Philip Sosnin , Calvin Tsay

We present a novel framework that jointly trains a neural network controller and a neural Riemannian metric with rigorous closed-loop contraction guarantees using formal bound propagation. Directly bounding the symmetric Riemannian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan , Alexander Davydov

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to small perturbations that can drastically alter their predictions for perceptually unchanged inputs. The literature on adversarially robust Deep Learning attempts to either enhance the robustness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Thomas Massena , Corentin Friedrich , Franck Mamalet , Mathieu Serrurier

Distributionally Robust (DR) optimization aims to certify worst-case risk within a Wasserstein uncertainty set. Current certifications typically rely either on global Lipschitz bounds, which are often conservative, or on local gradient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Hong T. M. Chu

Implicit neural networks are a general class of learning models that replace the layers in traditional feedforward models with implicit algebraic equations. Compared to traditional learning models, implicit networks offer competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Saber Jafarpour , Matthew Abate , Alexander Davydov , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan

Since the control of the Lipschitz constant has a great impact on the training stability, generalization, and robustness of neural networks, the estimation of this value is nowadays a real scientific challenge. In this paper we introduce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Blaise Delattre , Quentin Barthélemy , Alexandre Araujo , Alexandre Allauzen

Deep residual networks (ResNets) have demonstrated outstanding success in computer vision tasks, attributed to their ability to maintain gradient flow through deep architectures. Simultaneously, controlling the Lipschitz constant in neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Marius F. R. Juston , Ramavarapu S. Sreenivas , Dustin Nottage , Ahmet Soylemezoglu

Effective regularisation of neural networks is essential to combat overfitting due to the large number of parameters involved. We present an empirical analogue to the Lipschitz constant of a feed-forward neural network, which we refer to as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-03 Henry Gouk , Bernhard Pfahringer , Eibe Frank , Michael Cree

Deep residual networks (ResNets) have demonstrated outstanding success in computer vision tasks, attributed to their ability to maintain gradient flow through deep architectures. Simultaneously, controlling the Lipschitz bound in neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Marius F. R. Juston , William R. Norris , Dustin Nottage , Ahmet Soylemezoglu

A barrier certificate often serves as an inductive invariant that isolates an unsafe region from the reachable set of states, and hence is widely used in proving safety of hybrid systems possibly over the infinite time horizon. We present a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Qiuye Wang , Mingshuai Chen , Bai Xue , Naijun Zhan , Joost-Pieter Katoen

Deep neural networks are known to be fragile to small adversarial perturbations. This issue becomes more critical when a neural network is interconnected with a physical system in a closed loop. In this paper, we show how to combine recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Yuh-Shyang Wang , Tsui-Wei Weng , Luca Daniel

We consider the problem of computing the maximal invariant set of discrete-time linear systems subject to a class of non-convex constraints that admit quadratic relaxations. These non-convex constraints include semialgebraic sets and other…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers , Chong-Jin Ong

It is well established that to ensure or certify the robustness of a neural network, its Lipschitz constant plays a prominent role. However, its calculation is NP-hard. In this note, by taking into account activation regions at each layer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Mohammed Sbihi , Sophie Jan , Nicolas Couellan

This paper is concerned with the absolute stability analysis of discrete-time feedback systems with slope-restricted nonlinearities. By employing static O'Shea-Zames-Falb multipliers in the framework of integral quadratic constraints, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Hibiki Gyotoku , Tsuyoshi Yuno , Yoshio Ebihara , Dimitri Peaucelle , Sophie Tarbouriech , Victor Magron

This paper presents a framework for bounding the approximation error in imitation model predictive controllers utilizing neural networks. Leveraging the Lipschitz properties of these neural networks, we derive a bound that guides dataset…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Hendrik Alsmeier , Lukas Theiner , Anton Savchenko , Ali Mesbah , Rolf Findeisen

In this paper, a method is presented to synthesize neural network controllers such that the feedback system of plant and controller is dissipative, certifying performance requirements such as L2 gain bounds. The class of plants considered…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-12 Neelay Junnarkar , Murat Arcak , Peter Seiler

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

This paper is concerned with the training of neural networks (NNs) under semidefinite constraints, which allows for NN training with robustness and stability guarantees. In particular, we focus on Lipschitz bounds for NNs. Exploiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Patricia Pauli , Niklas Funcke , Dennis Gramlich , Mohamed Amine Msalmi , Frank Allgöwer