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Deep neural networks are an attractive tool for compressing the control policy lookup tables in systems such as the Airborne Collision Avoidance System (ACAS). It is vital to ensure the safety of such neural controllers via verification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Kai Jia , Martin Rinard

MLaaS Service Providers (SPs) holding a Neural Network would like to keep the Neural Network weights secret. On the other hand, users wish to utilize the SPs' Neural Network for inference without revealing their data. Multi-Party…

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Due to the curse of dimensionality, solving high dimensional parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) has been a challenging problem for decades. Recently, a weak adversarial network (WAN) proposed in (Y.Zang et al., 2020) offered a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-18 Paul Valsecchi Oliva , Yue Wu , Cuiyu He , Hao Ni

Training the deep convolutional neural network for computer vision problems is slow and inefficient, especially when it is large and distributed across multiple devices. The inefficiency is caused by the backpropagation algorithm's forward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 An Xu , Zhouyuan Huo , Heng Huang

Deep neural networks have been widely applied as an effective approach to handle complex and practical problems. However, one of the most fundamental open problems is the lack of formal methods to analyze the safety of their behaviors. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Xiaodong Yang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Weiming Xiang , Taylor Johnson

To use neural networks in safety-critical settings it is paramount to provide assurances on their runtime operation. Recent work on ReLU networks has sought to verify whether inputs belonging to a bounded box can ever yield some undesirable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Vicenc Rubies-Royo , Roberto Calandra , Dusan M. Stipanovic , Claire Tomlin

Iterative differential approximation methods that rely upon backpropagation have enabled the optimization of neural networks; however, at present, they remain computationally expensive, especially when training models at scale. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Jake Ryland Williams , Haoran Zhao

We propose a new neural network based method for solving inverse problems for partial differential equations (PDEs) by formulating the PDE inverse problem as a bilevel optimization problem. At the upper level, we minimize the data loss with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ray Zirui Zhang , Christopher E. Miles , Xiaohui Xie , John S. Lowengrub

Deep learning is extremely computationally intensive, and hardware vendors have responded by building faster accelerators in large clusters. Training deep learning models at petaFLOPS scale requires overcoming both algorithmic and systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Chris Ying , Sameer Kumar , Dehao Chen , Tao Wang , Youlong Cheng

We propose and analyze a new family of algorithms for training neural networks with ReLU activations. Our algorithms are based on the technique of alternating minimization: estimating the activation patterns of each ReLU for all given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Gauri Jagatap , Chinmay Hegde

We propose a method to learn deep ReLU-based classifiers that are provably robust against norm-bounded adversarial perturbations on the training data. For previously unseen examples, the approach is guaranteed to detect all adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Eric Wong , J. Zico Kolter

Faster inference of deep learning models is highly demanded on edge devices and even servers, for both financial and environmental reasons. To address this issue, we propose SoftNeuro, a novel, high-performance inference framework with…

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This work introduces a framework to address the computational complexity inherent in Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) models by harnessing the potential of deep learning. By employing deep learning, we construct problem-specific heuristics…

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The rise of computer vision applications in the real world puts the security of the deep neural networks at risk. Recent works demonstrate that convolutional neural networks are susceptible to adversarial examples - where the input images…

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The rapid growth of deep learning models has increased the demand for efficient distributed training strategies. Fully sharded approaches like ZeRO-3 and FSDP partition model parameters across GPUs and apply optimizations such as…

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We introduce a new framework for the exact point-wise $\ell_p$ robustness verification problem that exploits the layer-wise geometric structure of deep feed-forward networks with rectified linear activations (ReLU networks). The activation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Cong Han Lim , Raquel Urtasun , Ersin Yumer

Understanding structural controllability of a complex network requires to identify a Minimum Input nodes Set (MIS) of the network. It has been suggested that finding an MIS is equivalent to computing a maximum matching of the network, where…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Xizhe Zhang , Jianfei Han , Weixiong Zhang

Deep learning-based low-light image enhancers have made significant progress in recent years, with a trend towards achieving satisfactory visual quality while gradually reducing the number of parameters and improving computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nan An , Long Ma , Guangchao Han , Xin Fan , RIsheng Liu

It is a challenging topic in applied mathematics to solve high-dimensional nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Standard approximation methods for nonlinear PDEs suffer under the curse of dimensionality (COD) in the sense that…

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