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This survey presents an overview of verification techniques for autonomous systems, with a focus on safety-critical autonomous cyber-physical systems (CPS) and subcomponents thereof. Autonomy in CPS is enabling by recent advances in…

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their accelerators are being deployed ever more frequently in safety-critical applications leading to increasing reliability concerns. A traditional and accurate method for assessing DNNs' reliability has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani , Mahdi Taheri , Jaan Raik , Masoud Daneshtalab , Maksim Jenihhin

End-to-end deep neural networks (DNNs) have become the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for solving inverse problems. Despite their outstanding performance, during deployment, such networks are sensitive to minor variations in the testing pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Rahul Mourya , João F. C. Mota

Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable innovative applications of machine learning like image recognition, machine translation, or malware detection. However, deep learning is often criticized for its lack of robustness in adversarial settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel

This paper presents for the first time, to our knowledge, a framework for verifying neural network behavior in power system applications. Up to this moment, neural networks have been applied in power systems as a black-box; this has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-31 Andreas Venzke , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are being deployed for an increasing number of safety-critical applications, including autonomous cars and medical diagnosis. However, concerns about their reliability have been raised due to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Luiz Sena , Xidan Song , Erickson Alves , Iury Bessa , Edoardo Manino , Lucas Cordeiro , Eddie de Lima Filho

Concolic testing combines program execution and symbolic analysis to explore the execution paths of a software program. This paper presents the first concolic testing approach for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). More specifically, we formalise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Youcheng Sun , Min Wu , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Marta Kwiatkowska , Daniel Kroening

Neural network verifiers aim to provide formal guarantees on model behavior, but existing verification benchmarks are fundamentally limited by their lack of ground-truth labels. As a result, verifier evaluation relies on indirect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 David Troxell , Yulia Alexandr , Sofia Hunt , Stephanie Lei , Guido Montúfar

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have become an enabling component for a myriad of artificial intelligence applications. DNNs have shown sometimes superior performance, even compared to humans, in cases such as self-driving, health applications,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Ghada Alsuhli , Vasileios Sakellariou , Hani Saleh , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri , Baker Mohammad , Thanos Stouraitis

Development of formal proofs of correctness of programs can increase actual and perceived reliability and facilitate better understanding of program specifications and their underlying assumptions. Tools supporting such development have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Talia Ringer , Karl Palmskog , Ilya Sergey , Milos Gligoric , Zachary Tatlock

Model checkers use automated state exploration in order to prove various properties such as reachability, non-reachability, and bisimulation over state transition systems. While model checkers have proved valuable for locating errors in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Quentin Heath , Dale Miller

Advances in the field of Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has enabled rapid development of sophisticated and autonomous systems. However, the inherent complexity to rigorously assure the safe operation of such systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hao Ren , Sai Krishnan Chandrasekar , Anitha Murugesan

The generation of synthetic inputs via simulators driven by search algorithms is essential for cost-effective testing of Deep Neural Network (DNN) components for safety-critical systems. However, in many applications, simulators are unable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Mohammed Attaoui , Fabrizio Pastore

Neural networks have been widely applied in security applications such as spam and phishing detection, intrusion prevention, and malware detection. This black-box method, however, often has uncertainty and poor explainability in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Mark Huasong Meng , Guangdong Bai , Sin Gee Teo , Zhe Hou , Yan Xiao , Yun Lin , Jin Song Dong

In the rapidly evolving landscape of communication and network security, the increasing reliance on deep neural networks (DNNs) and cloud services for data processing presents a significant vulnerability: the potential for backdoors that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Khondoker Murad Hossain , Tim Oates

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly being adopted for sensing and control functions in a variety of safety and mission-critical systems such as self-driving cars, autonomous air vehicles, medical diagnostics, and industrial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Taejoon Byun , Vaibhav Sharma , Abhishek Vijayakumar , Sanjai Rayadurgam , Darren Cofer

The testing of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has become increasingly important as DNNs are widely adopted by safety critical systems. While many test adequacy criteria have been suggested, automated test input generation for many types of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Sungmin Kang , Robert Feldt , Shin Yoo

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are universal function approximators providing state-of- the-art solutions on wide range of applications. Common perceptual tasks such as speech recognition, image classification, and object tracking are now…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-08 Randall Balestriero , Richard Baraniuk

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized computer vision. We now have DNNs that achieve top (performance) results in many problems, including object recognition, facial expression analysis, and semantic segmentation, to name but a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ciprian Corneanu , Meysam Madadi , Sergio Escalera , Aleix Martinez

Despite the remarkable performance, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) behave as black-boxes hindering user trust in Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Research on opening black-box DNN can be broadly categorized into post-hoc methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Sandareka Wickramanayake , Wynne Hsu , Mong Li Lee