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Neural networks (NNs) are emerging as powerful tools to represent the dynamics of control systems with complicated physics or black-box components. Due to complexity of NNs, however, existing methods are unable to synthesize complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Steven Adams , Morteza Lahijanian , Luca Laurenti

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) play a crucial role in the field of machine learning, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various application domains. However, despite their success, DNN-based models may occasionally exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Guy Amir , Osher Maayan , Tom Zelazny , Guy Katz , Michael Schapira

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are prominent due to their superior performance in many fields. The deep-learning-as-a-service (DLaaS) paradigm enables individuals and organizations (clients) to outsource their DNN learning tasks to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Boxiang Dong , Bo Zhang , Hui , Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely developed and applied in many areas, and the quality assurance of DNNs is critical. Neural network verification (NNV) aims to provide formal guarantees to DNN models. Similar to traditional software,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Xuan Xie , Fuyuan Zhang

In this paper, we consider the computational complexity of formally verifying the behavior of Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) Neural Networks (NNs), where verification entails determining whether the NN satisfies convex polytopic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 James Ferlez , Yasser Shoukry

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have a wide range of applications, and software employing them must be thoroughly tested, especially in safety-critical domains. However, traditional software test coverage metrics cannot be applied directly to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Youcheng Sun , Xiaowei Huang , Daniel Kroening , James Sharp , Matthew Hill , Rob Ashmore

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a powerful machine learning paradigm for generating agents that control autonomous systems. However, the ``black box'' nature of DRL agents limits their deployment in real-world safety-critical…

We propose a framework based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to determine an optimal control strategy for a discrete-time system that is required to satisfy specifications given as Signal Temporal Logic (STL) formulae. RNNs can store…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-25 Wenliang Liu , Noushin Mehdipour , Calin Belta

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

We introduce for the first time a neural-certificate framework for continuous-time stochastic dynamical systems. Autonomous learning systems in the physical world demand continuous-time reasoning, yet existing learnable certificates for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Grigory Neustroev , Mirco Giacobbe , Anna Lukina

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in practice. Arguably, the rapid development of DNNs is largely benefited from high-quality (open-sourced) datasets, based on which researchers and developers can easily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Yiming Li , Yang Bai , Yong Jiang , Yong Yang , Shu-Tao Xia , Bo Li

Verification of Neural Networks (NNs) that approximate the solution of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is a major milestone towards enhancing their trustworthiness and accelerating their deployment, especially for safety-critical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Petros Ellinas , Rahul Nellikath , Ignasi Ventura , Jochen Stiasny , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Neural networks are increasingly deployed in real-world safety-critical domains such as autonomous driving, aircraft collision avoidance, and malware detection. However, these networks have been shown to often mispredict on inputs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Shiqi Wang , Kexin Pei , Justin Whitehouse , Junfeng Yang , Suman Jana

This paper proposes a reliable learning-based adaptive control framework for nonlinear multi-agent systems (MASs) subject to Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks and singular control gains, two critical challenges in cyber-physical systems. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Ladan Khoshnevisan , Xinzhi Liu

The impressive results of modern neural networks partly come from their non linear behaviour. Unfortunately, this property makes it very difficult to apply formal verification tools, even if we restrict ourselves to networks with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Julien Girard-Satabin , Aymeric Varasse , Marc Schoenauer , Guillaume Charpiat , Zakaria Chihani

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in safety-critical autonomous systems as perception components processing high-dimensional image data. Formal analysis of these systems is particularly challenging due to the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Corina S. Pasareanu , Ravi Mangal , Divya Gopinath , Sinem Getir Yaman , Calum Imrie , Radu Calinescu , Huafeng Yu

This paper describes a verification case study on an autonomous racing car with a neural network (NN) controller. Although several verification approaches have been proposed over the last year, they have only been evaluated on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-25 Radoslav Ivanov , Taylor J. Carpenter , James Weimer , Rajeev Alur , George J. Pappas , Insup Lee

Verifying the robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks at test time is an important research problem. Unfortunately, prior work established that this problem is NP-hard for decision tree ensembles, hence bound to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Stefano Calzavara , Lorenzo Cazzaro , Giulio Ermanno Pibiri , Nicola Prezza