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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 or worst-case inputs, but researchers…

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

Randomized smoothing is the dominant standard for provable defenses against adversarial examples. Nevertheless, this method has recently been proven to suffer from important information theoretic limitations. In this paper, we argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Raphael Ettedgui , Alexandre Araujo , Rafael Pinot , Yann Chevaleyre , Jamal Atif

In this paper, we study the problem of certifying whether a graph is bipartite (i.e. $2$-colorable) with a locally checkable proof (LCP) that is able to hide a $2$-coloring from the verifier. More precisely, we say an LCP for $2$-coloring…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Benjamin Jauregui , Augusto Modanese , Pedro Montealegre , Martín Ríos-Wilson

We consider three classification systems for distributed decision tasks: With unbounded computation and certificates, defined by Balliu, D'Angelo, Fraigniaud, and Olivetti [JCSS'18], and with (two flavors of) polynomially bounded local…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Laurent Feuilloley , Soumyadeep Paul , Ami Paz

In this article, two types of methods from different perspectives based on spectral normalization are described for ensuring the stability of the system controlled by a neural network. The first one is that the L2 gain of the feedback…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Ryoichi Takase , Nobuyuki Yoshikawa , Toshisada Mariyama , Takeshi Tsuchiya

Compressed sensing is a technique for finding sparse solutions to underdetermined linear systems. This technique relies on properties of the sensing matrix such as the restricted isometry property. Sensing matrices that satisfy the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Pascal Koiran , Anastasios Zouzias

Conformal prediction (CP) converts any model's output to prediction sets with a guarantee to cover the true label with (adjustable) high probability. Robust CP extends this guarantee to worst-case (adversarial) inputs. Existing baselines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Soroush H. Zargarbashi , Aleksandar Bojchevski

We study verification (decision) problems for graph properties in distributed networks under the locally checkable labeling framework, where nodes use labels (proofs) and local neighborhoods to decide acceptance or rejection. Our focus is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Paweł Garncarek , Tomasz Jurdzinski , Dariusz Kowalski , Subhajit Pramanick

While neural networks have achieved high accuracy on standard image classification benchmarks, their accuracy drops to nearly zero in the presence of small adversarial perturbations to test inputs. Defenses based on regularization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Aditi Raghunathan , Jacob Steinhardt , Percy Liang

In this work we study local computation with advice: the goal is to solve a graph problem $\Pi$ with a distributed algorithm in $T(\Delta)$ communication rounds, for some function $T$ that only depends on the maximum degree $\Delta$ of the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Alkida Balliu , Sebastian Brandt , Fabian Kuhn , Krzysztof Nowicki , Dennis Olivetti , Eva Rotenberg , Jukka Suomela

In safety-critical applications that rely on the solution of an optimization problem, the certification of the optimization algorithm is of vital importance. Certification and suboptimality results are available for a wide range of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Pablo Krupa , Omar Inverso , Mirco Tribastone , Alberto Bemporad

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

Existing evaluations of conformal prediction, such as prediction efficiency and test-conditional coverage, are defined in expectation over the calibration data. In practice, when only one calibration set of limited size is available,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-05 Yinjie Min , Liuhua Peng , Changliang Zou

We consider the problem of minimizing a polynomial $f$ over the binary hypercube. We show that, for a specific set of polynomials, their binary non-negativity can be checked in a polynomial time via minimum cut algorithms, and we construct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Liding Xu , Leo Liberti

In the framework of distributed network computing, it is known that, for every network predicate, each network configuration that satisfies this predicate can be proved using distributed certificates which can be verified locally. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-05-13 Alkida Balliu , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Pierre Fraigniaud , Dennis Olivetti

In the study of deterministic distributed algorithms it is commonly assumed that each node has a unique $O(\log n)$-bit identifier. We prove that for a general class of graph problems, local algorithms (constant-time distributed algorithms)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Mika Göös , Juho Hirvonen , Jukka Suomela

Pseudo-supervised learning methods have been shown to be effective for weakly supervised object localization tasks. However, the effectiveness depends on the powerful regularization ability of deep neural networks. Based on the assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kangbo Sun , Jie Zhu

A wide range of learning tasks require human input in labeling massive data. The collected data though are usually low quality and contain inaccuracies and errors. As a result, modern science and business face the problem of learning from…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Themis Gouleakis , Christos Tzamos , Manolis Zampetakis

Robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial perturbations is a pressing concern motivated by recent findings showing the pervasive nature of such vulnerabilities. One method of characterizing the robustness of a neural network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-15 Hisham Husain , Borja Balle

Distributed storage systems for large-scale applications typically use replication for reliability. Recently, erasure codes were used to reduce the large storage overhead, while increasing data reliability. A main limitation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis