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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuta Nakahara , Manabu Kobayashi , Toshiyasu Matsushima

Neural network verification aims to provide provable bounds for the output of a neural network for a given input range. Notable prior works in this domain have either generated bounds using abstract domains, which preserve some dependency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Matt Jordan , Jonathan Hayase , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sewoong Oh

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

Verifying and explaining the behavior of neural networks is becoming increasingly important, especially when they are deployed in safety-critical applications. In this paper, we study verification problems for Binarized Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Yedi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Guangke Chen , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

We study the improper learning of multi-layer neural networks. Suppose that the neural network to be learned has $k$ hidden layers and that the $\ell_1$-norm of the incoming weights of any neuron is bounded by $L$. We present a kernel-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Yuchen Zhang , Jason D. Lee , Michael I. Jordan

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used as controllers for safety-critical systems. Because neural networks are opaque, certifying their correctness is a significant challenge. To address this issue, several neural network…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Yizhak Yisrael Elboher , Justin Gottschlich , Guy Katz

We derive upper bounds on the complexity of ReLU neural networks approximating the solution maps of parametric partial differential equations. In particular, without any knowledge of its concrete shape, we use the inherent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Gitta Kutyniok , Philipp Petersen , Mones Raslan , Reinhold Schneider

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

We present an approach for the verification of feed-forward neural networks in which all nodes have a piece-wise linear activation function. Such networks are often used in deep learning and have been shown to be hard to verify for modern…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Ruediger Ehlers

In studying the expressiveness of neural networks, an important question is whether there are functions which can only be approximated by sufficiently deep networks, assuming their size is bounded. However, for constant depths, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Gal Vardi , Ohad Shamir

We introduce and analyze a new technique for model reduction for deep neural networks. While large networks are theoretically capable of learning arbitrarily complex models, overfitting and model redundancy negatively affects the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Alireza Aghasi , Afshin Abdi , Nam Nguyen , Justin Romberg

Recently, theoretical analyses of deep neural networks have broadly focused on two directions: 1) Providing insight into neural network training by SGD in the limit of infinite hidden-layer width and infinitesimally small learning rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath , Tolga Ergen , Mert Pilanci

ML models are typically trained using large datasets of high quality. However, training datasets often contain inconsistent or incomplete data. To tackle this issue, one solution is to develop algorithms that can check whether a prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Austen Z. Fan , Paraschos Koutris

Certifiable robustness is a highly desirable property for adopting deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical scenarios, but often demands tedious computations to establish. The main hurdle lies in the massive amount of non-linearity in…

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Deep learning has become a promising programming paradigm in software development, owing to its surprising performance in solving many challenging tasks. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being deployed in practice, but are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Yedi Zhang , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Min Zhang , Taolue Chen , Jun Sun

The rising popularity of neural networks (NNs) in recent years and their increasing prevalence in real-world applications have drawn attention to the importance of their verification. While verification is known to be computationally…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Natalia Slusarz , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew L. Daggitt , Robert Stewart

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

Convex relaxations have emerged as a promising approach for verifying desirable properties of neural networks like robustness to adversarial perturbations. Widely used Linear Programming (LP) relaxations only work well when networks are…

Neural networks (NNs) struggle to efficiently solve certain problems, such as learning parities, even when there are simple learning algorithms for those problems. Can NNs discover learning algorithms on their own? We exhibit a NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Surbhi Goel , Sham Kakade , Adam Tauman Kalai , Cyril Zhang

History-dependent policies induced by recurrent neural networks (RNNs) rely on latent hidden state dynamics, making verification in partially observable reinforcement learning (RL) challenging. Existing RNN verification tools typically rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Luca Marzari , Enrico Marchesini