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Training neural networks to be certifiably robust is critical to ensure their safety against adversarial attacks. However, it is currently very difficult to train a neural network that is both accurate and certifiably robust. In this work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Maximilian Baader , Matthew Mirman , Martin Vechev

Geometric image transformations that arise in the real world, such as scaling and rotation, have been shown to easily deceive deep neural networks (DNNs). Hence, training DNNs to be certifiably robust to these perturbations is critical.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Rem Yang , Jacob Laurel , Sasa Misailovic , Gagandeep Singh

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

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

While model-based verifiers are essential for scaling Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), current outcome-centric verification paradigms primarily focus on the consistency between the final result and the ground truth,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiangfeng Wang , Hangyu Guo , Yanlin Lai , Mitt Huang , Liang Zhao , Chengyuan Yao , Yinmin Zhang , Qi Han , Xiaoxiao Ren , Chun Yuan , Tong Xu , Zheng Ge , Xiangyu Zhang , Daxin Jiang

This paper addresses the problem of formally verifying desirable properties of neural networks, i.e., obtaining provable guarantees that neural networks satisfy specifications relating their inputs and outputs (robustness to bounded norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Krishnamurthy , Dvijotham , Robert Stanforth , Sven Gowal , Timothy Mann , Pushmeet Kohli

As neural networks make their way into safety-critical systems, where misbehavior can lead to catastrophes, there is a growing interest in certifying the equivalence of two structurally similar neural networks. For example, compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Brandon Paulsen , Jingbo Wang , Jiawei Wang , Chao Wang

Neural networks have demonstrated considerable success on a wide variety of real-world problems. However, networks trained only to optimize for training accuracy can often be fooled by adversarial examples - slightly perturbed inputs that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Vincent Tjeng , Kai Xiao , Russ Tedrake

With the rapid development of deep learning, the sizes of neural networks become larger and larger so that the training and inference often overwhelm the hardware resources. Given the fact that neural networks are often over-parameterized,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Zhangheng Li , Tianlong Chen , Linyi Li , Bo Li , Zhangyang Wang

Formal verification is only as good as the specification of a system, which is also true for neural network verification. Existing specifications follow the paradigm of data as specification, where the local neighborhood around a reference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Chuqin Geng , Zhaoyue Wang , Haolin Ye , Xujie Si

Finding minimum distortion of adversarial examples and thus certifying robustness in neural network classifiers for given data points is known to be a challenging problem. Nevertheless, recently it has been shown to be possible to give a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Huan Zhang , Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Luca Daniel

With deep neural networks providing state-of-the-art machine learning models for numerous machine learning tasks, quantifying the robustness of these models has become an important area of research. However, most of the research literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Lam M. Nguyen , Mark S. Squillante , Ivan Oseledets , Luca Daniel

Rectified activation units (rectifiers) are essential for state-of-the-art neural networks. In this work, we study rectifier neural networks for image classification from two aspects. First, we propose a Parametric Rectified Linear Unit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-09 Kaiming He , Xiangyu Zhang , Shaoqing Ren , Jian Sun

The problem of probabilistic verification of a neural network investigates the probability of satisfying the safe constraints in the output space when the input is given by a probability distribution. It is significant to answer this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jingyang Li , Xin Chen , Hongfei Fu , Guoqiang Li

We develop a method for the efficient verification of neural networks against convolutional perturbations such as blurring or sharpening. To define input perturbations we use well-known camera shake, box blur and sharpen kernels. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Benedikt Brückner , Alessio Lomuscio

Verifying that input-output relationships of a neural network conform to prescribed operational specifications is a key enabler towards deploying these networks in safety-critical applications. Semidefinite programming (SDP)-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-08 Robin Brown , Edward Schmerling , Navid Azizan , Marco Pavone

Formal verification of transformers has become increasingly important due to their widespread deployment in safety-critical applications. Compared to classic neural networks, the inferences of transformers involve highly complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hengjie Liu , Zhenya Zhang , Jianjun Zhao

With neural networks being used to control safety-critical systems, they increasingly have to be both accurate (in the sense of matching inputs to outputs) and robust. However, these two properties are often at odds with each other and a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Ross Drummond , Chris Guiver , Matthew C. Turner

Neural network verification mainly focuses on local robustness properties, which can be checked by bounding the image (set of outputs) of a given input set. However, often it is important to know whether a given property holds globally for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xiyue Zhang , Benjie Wang , Marta Kwiatkowska

The success of Deep Learning and its potential use in many safety-critical applications has motivated research on formal verification of Neural Network (NN) models. In this context, verification involves proving or disproving that an NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Rudy Bunel , Jingyue Lu , Ilker Turkaslan , Philip H. S. Torr , Pushmeet Kohli , M. Pawan Kumar