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Susceptibility of neural networks to adversarial attack prompts serious safety concerns for lane detection efforts, a domain where such models have been widely applied. Recent work on adversarial road patches have successfully induced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Henry Xu , An Ju , David Wagner

Deep neural network (DNN) verification is an emerging field, with diverse verification engines quickly becoming available. Demonstrating the effectiveness of these engines on real-world DNNs is an important step towards their wider…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Sumathi Gokulanathan , Alexander Feldsher , Adi Malca , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

We study verification over a general model of artifact-centric systems, to assess (parameterized) safety properties irrespectively of the initial database instance. We view such artifact systems as array-based systems, which allows us to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Diego Calvanese , Silvio Ghilardi , Alessandro Gianola , Marco Montali , Andrey Rivkin

Deploying Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained embedded systems requires aggressive model compression techniques like quantization and pruning. However, ensuring that the compressed model preserves the behavioral fidelity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jingyang Li , Fu Song , Guoqiang Li

Recent developments in deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to their adoption in safety-critical systems, which in turn has heightened the need for guaranteeing their safety. These safety properties of DNNs can be proven using tools…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Remi Desmartin , Omri Isac , Grant Passmore , Kathrin Stark , Guy Katz , Ekaterina Komendantskaya

Convolutional neural networks have gained vast popularity due to their excellent performance in the fields of computer vision, image processing, and others. Unfortunately, it is now well known that convolutional networks often produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Matan Ostrovsky , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

The massive use of artificial neural networks (ANNs), increasingly popular in many areas of scientific computing, rapidly increases the energy consumption of modern high-performance computing systems. An appealing and possibly more…

Quantum-inspired tensor networks algorithms have shown to be effective and efficient models for machine learning tasks, including anomaly detection. Here, we propose a highly parallelizable quantum-inspired approach which we call SMT-AD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Apimuk Sornsaeng , Si Min Chan , Wenxuan Zhang , Swee Liang Wong , Joshua Lim , Dario Poletti

This study explores the application of quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms to enhance cybersecurity threat detection, particularly in the classification of malware and intrusion detection within high-dimensional datasets. Classical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Tanya Joshi , Krishnendu Guha

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are powerful tools that have shown extraordinary results in many scenarios, ranging from pattern recognition to complex robotic problems. However, their intricate designs and lack of transparency raise safety…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Luca Marzari , Gabriele Roncolato , Alessandro Farinelli

Virtual integration techniques focus on building architectural models of systems that can be analyzed early in the design cycle to try to lower cost, reduce risk, and improve quality of complex embedded systems. Given appropriate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Andreas Katis , Andrew Gacek , Michael W. Whalen

Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) are making significant progress in many research areas where decision-making needs to be accompanied by uncertainty estimation. Being able to quantify uncertainty while making decisions is essential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Martin Ferianc , Partha Maji , Matthew Mattina , Miguel Rodrigues

Verification of deep neural networks has witnessed a recent surge of interest, fueled by success stories in diverse domains and by abreast concerns about safety and security in envisaged applications. Complexity and sheer size of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dario Guidotti , Francesco Leofante , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella

One major drawback of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for use in safety critical applications is their black-box nature. This makes it hard to verify or monitor complex, symbolic requirements on already trained computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Gesina Schwalbe , Christian Wirth , Ute Schmid

The behaviour of neural network components must be proven correct before deployment in safety-critical systems. Unfortunately, existing neural network verification techniques cannot certify the absence of faults at the software level. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Edoardo Manino , Bruno Farias , Rafael Sá Menezes , Fedor Shmarov , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Context: Neural Network (NN) algorithms have been successfully adopted in a number of Safety-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems (SCCPSs). Testing and Verification (T&V) of NN-based control software in safety-critical domains are gaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Jin Zhang , Jingyue Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as an effective approach to tackling real-world problems. However, like human-written software, DNNs can have bugs and can be attacked. To address this, research has explored a wide-range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hai Duong , ThanhVu Nguyen , Matthew Dwyer

We study the problem of formal verification of Binarized Neural Networks (BNN), which have recently been proposed as a energy-efficient alternative to traditional learning networks. The verification of BNNs, using the reduction to hardware…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Chih-Hong Cheng , Georg Nührenberg , Chung-Hao Huang , Harald Ruess

Model predictive control (MPC) achieves stability and constraint satisfaction for general nonlinear systems, but requires computationally expensive online optimization. This paper studies approximations of such MPC controllers via neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-07 Henrik Hose , Johannes Köhler , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Sebastian Trimpe

Most real-world applications that employ deep neural networks (DNNs) quantize them to low precision to reduce the compute needs. We present a method to improve the robustness of quantized DNNs to white-box adversarial attacks. We first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Saurabh Farkya , Aswin Raghavan , Avi Ziskind