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Applying neural networks as controllers in dynamical systems has shown great promises. However, it is critical yet challenging to verify the safety of such control systems with neural-network controllers in the loop. Previous methods for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Chao Huang , Jiameng Fan , Wenchao Li , Xin Chen , Qi Zhu

We establish a margin based data dependent generalization error bound for a general family of deep neural networks in terms of the depth and width, as well as the Jacobian of the networks. Through introducing a new characterization of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Xingguo Li , Junwei Lu , Zhaoran Wang , Jarvis Haupt , Tuo Zhao

This work proposes a two-layered control scheme for constrained nonlinear systems represented by a class of recurrent neural networks and affected by additive disturbances. In particular, a base controller ensures global or regional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Daniele Ravasio , Danilo Saccani , Marcello Farina , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Lipschitz constants of neural networks have been explored in various contexts in deep learning, such as provable adversarial robustness, estimating Wasserstein distance, stabilising training of GANs, and formulating invertible neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Hyunjik Kim , George Papamakarios , Andriy Mnih

The Lipschitz bound, a technique from robust statistics, can limit the maximum changes in the output concerning the input, taking into account associated irrelevant biased factors. It is an efficient and provable method for examining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yaning Jia , Chunhui Zhang

Neural Controlled Differential Equations (NCDEs) are a state-of-the-art tool for supervised learning with irregularly sampled time series (Kidger, 2020). However, no theoretical analysis of their performance has been provided yet, and it…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-03 Linus Bleistein , Agathe Guilloux

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in many visual tasks but remain susceptible to adversarial attacks-imperceptible perturbations that degrade performance. Prior research reveals that brain-inspired regularizers, derived from neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Elie Attias , Cengiz Pehlevan , Dina Obeid

Improving and guaranteeing the robustness of deep learning models has been a topic of intense research. Ensembling, which combines several classifiers to provide a better model, has shown to be beneficial for generalisation, uncertainty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Aleksandar Petrov , Francisco Eiras , Amartya Sanyal , Philip H. S. Torr , Adel Bibi

The unconstrained minimization of a sufficiently smooth objective function $f(x)$ is considered, for which derivatives up to order $p$, $p\geq 2$, are assumed to be available. An adaptive regularization algorithm is proposed that uses…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Coralia Cartis , Nicholas I. M. Gould , Philippe L. Toint

An adaptive regularization algorithm using high-order models is proposed for partially separable convexly constrained nonlinear optimization problems whose objective function contains non-Lipschitzian $\ell_q$-norm regularization terms for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-31 Xiaojun Chen , Philippe Toint , Hong Wang

It is well-known that standard neural networks, even with a high classification accuracy, are vulnerable to small $\ell_\infty$-norm bounded adversarial perturbations. Although many attempts have been made, most previous works either can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Bohang Zhang , Tianle Cai , Zhou Lu , Di He , Liwei Wang

Implicit neural networks, a.k.a., deep equilibrium networks, are a class of implicit-depth learning models where function evaluation is performed by solving a fixed point equation. They generalize classic feedforward models and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Saber Jafarpour , Alexander Davydov , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Francesco Bullo

This paper presents a new bi-Lipschitz invertible neural network, the BiLipNet, which has the ability to smoothly control both its Lipschitzness (output sensitivity to input perturbations) and inverse Lipschitzness (input distinguishability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ruigang Wang , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Ian R. Manchester

We study the excess capacity of deep networks in the context of supervised classification. That is, given a capacity measure of the underlying hypothesis class - in our case, empirical Rademacher complexity - to what extent can we (a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Florian Graf , Sebastian Zeng , Bastian Rieck , Marc Niethammer , Roland Kwitt

Recent works have introduced input-convex neural networks (ICNNs) as learning models with advantageous training, inference, and generalization properties linked to their convex structure. In this paper, we propose a novel feature-convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Samuel Pfrommer , Brendon G. Anderson , Julien Piet , Somayeh Sojoudi

We study necessary and sufficient conditions for contraction and incremental stability of dynamical systems with respect to non-Euclidean norms. First, we introduce weak pairings as a framework to study contractivity with respect to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Alexander Davydov , Saber Jafarpour , Francesco Bullo

Learning monotonic models with respect to a subset of the inputs is a desirable feature to effectively address the fairness, interpretability, and generalization issues in practice. Existing methods for learning monotonic neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Xingchao Liu , Xing Han , Na Zhang , Qiang Liu

Dynamical models identified from data are frequently employed in control system design. However, decoupling system identification from controller synthesis can result in situations where no suitable controller exists after a model has been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Sampath Kumar Mulagaleti , Alberto Bemporad

The article introduces a new algorithm for solving a class ofequilibrium problems involving strongly pseudomonotone bifunctions with Lipschitz-type condition. We describe how to incorporate the proximal-like regularized technique with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Dang Van Hieu

This paper proposes a simple approach to derive efficient error bounds for learning multiple components with sparsity-inducing regularization. We show that for such regularization schemes, known decompositions of the Rademacher complexity…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-24 Fabien Lauer