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With neural networks being used to control safety-critical systems, they increasingly have to be both accurate (in the sense of matching inputs to outputs) and robust. However, these two properties are often at odds with each other and a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Ross Drummond , Chris Guiver , Matthew C. Turner

Formal verification is only as good as the specification of a system, which is also true for neural network verification. Existing specifications follow the paradigm of data as specification, where the local neighborhood around a reference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Chuqin Geng , Zhaoyue Wang , Haolin Ye , Xujie Si

Deep neural networks (NN) are extensively used for machine learning tasks such as image classification, perception and control of autonomous systems. Increasingly, these deep NNs are also been deployed in high-assurance applications. Thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Souradeep Dutta , Susmit Jha , Sriram Sanakaranarayanan , Ashish Tiwari

Bound propagation is an important Artificial Intelligence technique used in Constraint Programming tools to deal with numerical constraints. It is typically embedded within a search procedure ("branch and prune") and used at every node of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Lucas Bordeaux , George Katsirelos , Nina Narodytska , Moshe Y. Vardi

Neural networks achieve strong empirical performance, but robustness concerns still hinder deployment in safety-critical applications. Formal verification provides robustness guarantees, but current methods face a scalability-completeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenting Li , Saif R. Kazi , Russell Bent , Duo Zhou , Huan Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play an increasingly important role in various computer systems. In order to create these networks, engineers typically specify a desired topology, and then use an automated training algorithm to select the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Ori Lahav , Guy Katz

Recent works have shown that interval bound propagation (IBP) can be used to train verifiably robust neural networks. Reseachers observe an intriguing phenomenon on these IBP trained networks: CROWN, a bounding method based on tight linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zhaoyang Lyu , Minghao Guo , Tong Wu , Guodong Xu , Kehuan Zhang , Dahua Lin

Neural network verifiers based on linear bound propagation scale impressively to massive models but can be surprisingly loose when neuron coupling is crucial. Conversely, semidefinite programming (SDP) verifiers capture inter-neuron…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hong-Ming Chiu , Hao Chen , Huan Zhang , Richard Y. Zhang

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in many vision and robotics applications with visual inputs. It is essential to verify its robustness against semantic transformation perturbations, such as brightness and contrast. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hanjiang Hu , Bowei Li , Ziwei Wang , Tianhao Wei , Casidhe Hutchison , Eric Sample , Changliu Liu

We introduce two algorithms for computing tight guarantees on the probabilistic robustness of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs). Computing robustness guarantees for BNNs is a significantly more challenging task than verifying the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Ben Batten , Mehran Hosseini , Alessio Lomuscio

Barrier functions are a general framework for establishing a safety guarantee for a system. However, there is no general method for finding these functions. To address this shortcoming, recent approaches use self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shaoru Chen , Lekan Molu , Mahyar Fazlyab

The problem of probabilistic verification of a neural network investigates the probability of satisfying the safe constraints in the output space when the input is given by a probability distribution. It is significant to answer this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Jingyang Li , Xin Chen , Hongfei Fu , Guoqiang Li

Methods to certify the robustness of neural networks in the presence of input uncertainty are vital in safety-critical settings. Most certification methods in the literature are designed for adversarial input uncertainty, but researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

Formal verification of neural networks is essential for their deployment in safety-critical areas. Many available formal verification methods have been shown to be instances of a unified Branch and Bound (BaB) formulation. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jingyue Lu , M. Pawan Kumar

Neural networks (NNs) are increasingly applied in safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles. However, they are fragile and are often ill-behaved. Consequently, their behaviors should undergo rigorous guarantees before deployment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Zhen Liang , Dejin Ren , Wanwei Liu , Ji Wang , Wenjing Yang , Bai Xue

We present new algorithms for a posteriori verification of neural networks (NNs) approximating solutions to PDEs. These verification algorithms compute accurate estimates of $L^p$ norms of NNs and their derivatives. When combined with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Emil Haugen , Alexei Stepanenko , Anders C. Hansen

As robustness verification methods are becoming more precise, training certifiably robust neural networks is becoming ever more relevant. To this end, certified training methods compute and then optimize an upper bound on the worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yuhao Mao , Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Quantization replaces floating point arithmetic with integer arithmetic in deep neural network models, providing more efficient on-device inference with less power and memory. In this work, we propose a framework for formally verifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Pei Huang , Haoze Wu , Yuting Yang , Ieva Daukantas , Min Wu , Yedi Zhang , Clark Barrett

Deep neural networks have been widely deployed in various machine learning tasks. However, recent works have demonstrated that they are vulnerable to adversarial examples: carefully crafted small perturbations to cause misclassification by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Ke Sun , Zhanxing Zhu , Zhouchen Lin

With the increasing integration of neural networks as components in mission-critical systems, there is an increasing need to ensure that they satisfy various safety and liveness requirements. In recent years, numerous sound and complete…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Yizhak Yisrael Elboher , Elazar Cohen , Guy Katz