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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

Machine learning operates at the intersection of statistics and computer science. This raises the question as to its underlying methodology. While much emphasis has been put on the close link between the process of learning from data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Oliver Buchholz , Eric Raidl

Simulation-based falsification is a practical testing method to increase confidence that the system will meet safety requirements. Because full-fidelity simulations can be computationally demanding, we investigate the use of simulators with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Zahra Shahrooei , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Ali Baheri

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which dramatically alter model output using small input changes. We propose Neural Fingerprinting, a simple, yet effective method to detect adversarial examples by verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Sumanth Dathathri , Stephan Zheng , Tianwei Yin , Richard M. Murray , Yisong Yue

In order to detect unknown intrusions and runtime errors of computer programs, the cyber-security community has developed various detection techniques. Anomaly detection is an approach that is designed to profile the normal runtime behavior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Byunggu Yu , Junwhan Kim

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

Neural networks serve as effective controllers in a variety of complex settings due to their ability to represent expressive policies. The complex nature of neural networks, however, makes their output difficult to verify and predict, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Sydney M. Katz , Kyle D. Julian , Christopher A. Strong , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being employed in safety-critical systems, and there is an urgent need to guarantee their correctness. Consequently, the verification community has devised multiple techniques and tools for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Omri Isac , Clark Barrett , Min Zhang , Guy Katz

Quantifying the robustness of neural networks or verifying their safety properties against input uncertainties or adversarial attacks have become an important research area in learning-enabled systems. Most results concentrate around the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Mahyar Fazlyab , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

Neural networks (NNs) are increasingly used in always-on safety-critical applications deployed on hardware accelerators (NN-HAs) employing various memory technologies. Reliable continuous operation of NN is essential for safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Soyed Tuhin Ahmed , Mehdi B. tahoori

Increasingly sophisticated mathematical modelling processes from Machine Learning are being used to analyse complex data. However, the performance and explainability of these models within practical critical systems requires a rigorous and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xingyu Zhao , Alec Banks , James Sharp , Valentin Robu , David Flynn , Michael Fisher , Xiaowei Huang

Despite the power of deep neural networks for a wide range of tasks, an overconfident prediction issue has limited their practical use in many safety-critical applications. Many recent works have been proposed to mitigate this issue, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Jooyoung Moon , Jihyo Kim , Younghak Shin , Sangheum Hwang

The growing adoption of home banking systems has increased cyberfraud risks, requiring detection models that are accurate, fair, and explainable. While AI methods show promise, they face challenges including computational inefficiency,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sadman Mohammad Nasif , Md Abrar Jahin , M. F. Mridha

Many online platforms have deployed anti-fraud systems to detect and prevent fraudulent activities. However, there is usually a gap between the time that a user commits a fraudulent action and the time that the user is suspended by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Panpan Zheng , Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu

Neural networks are increasingly employed in safety-critical domains. This has prompted interest in verifying or certifying logically encoded properties of neural networks. Prior work has largely focused on checking existential properties,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Teodora Baluta , Shiqi Shen , Shweta Shinde , Kuldeep S. Meel , Prateek Saxena

Counterfeit products such as drugs and vaccines as well as luxury items such as high-fashion handbags, watches, jewelry, garments, and cosmetics, represent significant direct losses of revenue to legitimate manufacturers and vendors, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hugo Garcia-Cotte , Dorra Mellouli , Abdul Rehman , Li Wang , David G. Stork

The widespread adoption of deep neural networks (DNNs) requires efficient techniques for verifying their safety. DNN verifiers are complex tools, which might contain bugs that could compromise their soundness and undermine the reliability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Omri Isac , Idan Refaeli , Haoze Wu , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

Neural networks are vulnerable to backdoor poisoning attacks, where the attackers maliciously poison the training set and insert triggers into the test input to change the prediction of the victim model. Existing defenses for backdoor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Yuhao Zhang , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni

We introduce CheckNet, a method for secure inference with deep neural networks on untrusted devices. CheckNet is like a checksum for neural network inference: it verifies the integrity of the inference computation performed by untrusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Marcus Comiter , Surat Teerapittayanon , H. T. Kung

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become one of the enabling technologies in many safety-critical applications, e.g., autonomous driving and medical image analysis. DNN systems, however, suffer from various kinds of threats, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Yu Li , Min Li , Bo Luo , Ye Tian , Qiang Xu