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Neural network controllers are currently being proposed for use in many safety-critical tasks. Most analysis methods for neural network control systems assume a fixed control period. In control theory, higher frequency usually improves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-29 Ali ArjomandBigdeli , Andrew Mata , Stanley Bak

Learning-based methods could provide solutions to many of the long-standing challenges in control. However, the neural networks (NNs) commonly used in modern learning approaches present substantial challenges for analyzing the resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Michael Everett

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

Quantization, a commonly used technique to reduce the memory footprint of a neural network for edge computing, entails reducing the precision of the floating-point representation used for the parameters of the network. The impact of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Abhishek Murthy , Himel Das , Md Ariful Islam

The software development process for embedded systems is getting faster and faster, which generally incurs an increase in the associated complexity. As a consequence, consumer electronics companies usually invest a lot of resources in fast…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Felipe R. M. Sousa , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Eddie B. de Lima Filho

This paper presents the Neural Network Verification (NNV) software tool, a set-based verification framework for deep neural networks (DNNs) and learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPS). The crux of NNV is a collection of reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Hoang-Dung Tran , Xiaodong Yang , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Patrick Musau , Luan Viet Nguyen , Weiming Xiang , Stanley Bak , Taylor T. Johnson

Neural networks have emerged as essential components in safety-critical applications -- these use cases demand complex, yet trustworthy computations. Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a type of neural network where each neuron is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiong Yang , Yong Kiam Tan , Mate Soos , Magnus O. Myreen , Kuldeep S. Meel

As with classical neural networks, quantum machine learning (QML) models are vulnerable to small input perturbations that can significantly alter output predictions. Certifying the robustness of QML models, particularly on NISQ hardware, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Ji Guan , Mingsheng Ying

A prominent technique for reducing the memory footprint of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) without decreasing the accuracy significantly is quantization. However, the state-of-the-art only focus on employing the weight quantization directly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Muhammad Shafique

We investigate the computational complexity of neural network verification in quantised settings. We distinguish three classes of Feedforward Neural Networks (FNNs): rational FNNs with exact rational weights, quantised FNNs whose weights…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Eric Alsmann , Martin Lange , Marco Sälzer

Humans possess a finely tuned sense of uncertainty that helps anticipate potential errors, vital for adaptive behavior and survival. However, the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. This study applies moment neural networks (MNNs)…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Hengyuan Ma , Wenlian Lu , Jianfeng Feng

Recent advancements in test time compute, particularly through the use of verifier models, have significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). This generator-verifier approach closely resembles the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jianing Qi , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

In the rapidly evolving landscape of neural network security, the resilience of neural networks against bit-flip attacks (i.e., an attacker maliciously flips an extremely small amount of bits within its parameter storage memory system to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yedi Zhang , Lei Huang , Pengfei Gao , Fu Song , Jun Sun , Jin Song Dong

Neural networks are increasingly relied upon as components of complex safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles. There is high demand for tools and methods that embed neural network verification in a larger verification cycle.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Remi Desmartin , Grant Passmore , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew Daggitt

Neural network (NN) verification aims to formally verify properties of NNs, which is crucial for ensuring the behavior of NN-based models in safety-critical applications. In recent years, the community has developed many NN verifiers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xingjian Zhou , Keyi Shen , Andy Xu , Hongji Xu , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Huan Zhang , Zhouxing Shi

With the growing interest in quantum programs, ensuring their correctness is a fundamental challenge. Although constraint-solving techniques can overcome some limitations of traditional testing and verification, they have not yet been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Shangzhou Xia , Haitao Fu , Jianjun Zhao

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

Neural Networks are currently one of the most widely deployed machine learning algorithms. In particular, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), are gaining popularity and are evaluated for deployment in safety critical applications such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-17 Giulio Gambardella , Johannes Kappauf , Michaela Blott , Christoph Doehring , Martin Kumm , Peter Zipf , Kees Vissers

Formal verification has emerged as a powerful approach to ensure the safety and reliability of deep neural networks. However, current verification tools are limited to only a handful of properties that can be expressed as first-order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Xuan Xie , Kristian Kersting , Daniel Neider

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