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Deep neural networks (DNNs) have emerged as a popular mathematical tool for function approximation due to their capability of modelling highly nonlinear functions. Their applications range from image classification and natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 SiQi Zhou , Angela P. Schoellig

This report presents a neurosymbolic framework for safety verification and control synthesis in high-dimensional monotone dynamical systems without relying on explicit models or conservative Lipschitz bounds. The approach combines the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Saber Jafarpour , Alireza Nadali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

This work investigates robust monotonic convergent iterative learning control (ILC) for uncertain linear systems in both time and frequency domains, and the ILC algorithm optimizing the convergence speed in terms of $l_{2}$ norm of error…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Lanlan Su

This paper is concerned with the training of neural networks (NNs) under semidefinite constraints, which allows for NN training with robustness and stability guarantees. In particular, we focus on Lipschitz bounds for NNs. Exploiting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Patricia Pauli , Niklas Funcke , Dennis Gramlich , Mohamed Amine Msalmi , Frank Allgöwer

Over the past few years, Batch-Normalization has been commonly used in deep networks, allowing faster training and high performance for a wide variety of applications. However, the reasons behind its merits remained unanswered, with several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-08 Elad Hoffer , Ron Banner , Itay Golan , Daniel Soudry

Robustness is essential for deep neural networks, especially in security-sensitive applications. To this end, randomized smoothing provides theoretical guarantees for certifying robustness against adversarial perturbations. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jiachen Lei , Julius Berner , Jiongxiao Wang , Zhongzhu Chen , Zhongjia Ba , Kui Ren , Jun Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Dropout Regularization, serving to reduce variance, is nearly ubiquitous in Deep Learning models. We explore the relationship between the dropout rate and model complexity by training 2,000 neural networks configured with random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Christopher Sun , Jai Sharma , Milind Maiti

Decentralized optimization has become a fundamental tool for large-scale learning systems; however, most existing methods rely on the classical Lipschitz smoothness assumption, which is often violated in problems with rapidly varying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Yanan Bo , Yongqiang Wang

We present a method for converting denoising neural networks from spatial into spatio-temporal ones by modifying the network architecture and loss function. We insert Robust Average blocks at arbitrary depths in the network graph. Each…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Javor Kalojanov , Kimball Thurston

This paper presents a study of robust policy networks in deep reinforcement learning. We investigate the benefits of policy parameterizations that naturally satisfy constraints on their Lipschitz bound, analyzing their empirical performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Nicholas H. Barbara , Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester

We develop a finite-dimensional sensitivity framework for studying stability in learning systems whose states include representations, parameters, and update variables. The central object is the \emph{Learning Stability Profile}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ronald Katende

We establish a layer-wise parameterization for 1D convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with built-in end-to-end robustness guarantees. In doing so, we use the Lipschitz constant of the input-output mapping characterized by a CNN as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Patricia Pauli , Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester , Frank Allgöwer

We introduce a variational framework to learn the activation functions of deep neural networks. Our aim is to increase the capacity of the network while controlling an upper-bound of the actual Lipschitz constant of the input-output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Shayan Aziznejad , Harshit Gupta , Joaquim Campos , Michael Unser

Adjusting the learning rate schedule in stochastic gradient methods is an important unresolved problem which requires tuning in practice. If certain parameters of the loss function such as smoothness or strong convexity constants are known,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-23 Xiaoxia Wu , Rachel Ward , Léon Bottou

We consider the problem of analyzing and designing gradient-based discrete-time optimization algorithms for a class of unconstrained optimization problems having strongly convex objective functions with Lipschitz continuous gradient. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Simon Michalowsky , Carsten Scherer , Christian Ebenbauer

This paper introduces a new parameterization of deep neural networks (both fully-connected and convolutional) with guaranteed $\ell^2$ Lipschitz bounds, i.e. limited sensitivity to input perturbations. The Lipschitz guarantees are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester

Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with a strict Lipschitz constraint under the $l_{2}$ norm is useful for provable adversarial robustness, interpretable gradients and stable training. While $1$-Lipschitz CNNs can be designed by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sahil Singla , Surbhi Singla , Soheil Feizi

Certifiable robustness gives the guarantee that small perturbations around an input to a classifier will not change the prediction. There are two approaches to provide certifiable robustness to adversarial examples: a) explicitly training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Meiyu Zhong , Ravi Tandon

We initiate a program of average smoothness analysis for efficiently learning real-valued functions on metric spaces. Rather than using the Lipschitz constant as the regularizer, we define a local slope at each point and gauge the function…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Yair Ashlagi , Lee-Ad Gottlieb , Aryeh Kontorovich

Despite having high accuracy, neural nets have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial examples, where a small perturbation to an input can cause it to become mislabeled. We propose metrics for measuring the robustness of a neural net…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-19 Osbert Bastani , Yani Ioannou , Leonidas Lampropoulos , Dimitrios Vytiniotis , Aditya Nori , Antonio Criminisi