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Fairness is crucial for neural networks which are used in applications with important societal implication. Recently, there have been multiple attempts on improving fairness of neural networks, with a focus on fairness testing (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Bing Sun , Jun Sun , Ting Dai , Lijun Zhang

We develop a method for the efficient verification of neural networks against convolutional perturbations such as blurring or sharpening. To define input perturbations we use well-known camera shake, box blur and sharpen kernels. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Benedikt Brückner , Alessio Lomuscio

Many approaches for verifying input-output properties of neural networks have been proposed recently. However, existing algorithms do not scale well to large networks. Recent work in the field of model compression studied binarized neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Christopher Lazarus , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are a revolutionary force in the ongoing information revolution, and yet their intrinsic properties remain a mystery. In particular, it is widely known that DNNs are highly sensitive to noise, whether adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Netanel Raviv , Siddharth Jain , Pulakesh Upadhyaya , Jehoshua Bruck , Anxiao Jiang

In deep learning applications, robustness measures the ability of neural models that handle slight changes in input data, which could lead to potential safety hazards, especially in safety-critical applications. Pre-deployment assessment of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Wenchuan Mu , Kwan Hui Lim

Neural networks are increasingly used to support decision-making. To verify their reliability and adaptability, researchers and practitioners have proposed a variety of tools and methods for tasks such as NN code verification, refactoring,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Nadia Daoudi , Jordi Cabot

As deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, there is a growing concern for their reliability. Even highly trained, high-performant networks are not 100% accurate. However, it is very difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Eduard Pinconschi , Divya Gopinath , Rui Abreu , Corina S. Pasareanu

Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which are small, imperceptible perturbations that can significantly alter the network's output. Conversely, there may exist large, meaningful perturbations that do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tianqi Cui , Thomas Bertalan , George J. Pappas , Manfred Morari , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Mahyar Fazlyab

The robustness of neural networks is fundamental to the hosting system's reliability and security. Formal verification has been proven to be effective in providing provable robustness guarantees. To improve the verification scalability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yiting Wu , Zhaodi Zhang , Zhiyi Xue , Si Liu , Min Zhang

We describe a method for verifying the output of a deep neural network for medical image segmentation that is robust to several classes of random as well as worst-case perturbations i.e. adversarial attacks. This method is based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Fahim Ahmed Zaman , Xiaodong Wu , Weiyu Xu , Milan Sonka , Raghuraman Mudumbai

Implicit neural networks are a general class of learning models that replace the layers in traditional feedforward models with implicit algebraic equations. Compared to traditional learning models, implicit networks offer competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Saber Jafarpour , Matthew Abate , Alexander Davydov , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan

In this paper, we examine an important problem of learning neural networks that certifiably meet certain specifications on input-output behaviors. Our strategy is to find an inner approximation of the set of admissible policy parameters,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-24 Zain ul Abdeen , He Yin , Vassilis Kekatos , Ming Jin

We propose and investigate probabilistic guarantees for the adversarial robustness of classification algorithms. While traditional formal verification approaches for robustness are intractable and sampling-based approaches do not provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peter Blohm , Patrick Indri , Thomas Gärtner , Sagar Malhotra

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

Training neural networks means solving a high-dimensional optimization problem. Normally the goal is to minimize a loss function that depends on what is called the network function, or in other words the function that gives the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Umberto Michelucci

The behaviour of neural network components must be proven correct before deployment in safety-critical systems. Unfortunately, existing neural network verification techniques cannot certify the absence of faults at the software level. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Edoardo Manino , Bruno Farias , Rafael Sá Menezes , Fedor Shmarov , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have emerged as an effective approach to tackling real-world problems. However, like human-written software, DNNs are susceptible to bugs and attacks. This has generated significant interests in developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Hai Duong , Dong Xu , ThanhVu Nguyen , Matthew B. Dwyer

We study the problem of certifying the robustness of Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) to adversarial input perturbations. Given a compact set of input points $T \subseteq \mathbb{R}^m$ and a set of output points $S \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Matthew Wicker , Andrea Patane , Luca Laurenti , Marta Kwiatkowska

The problem of localizing a set of nodes from relative pairwise measurements is at the core of many applications such as Structure from Motion (SfM), sensor networks, and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). In practical…

Computation · Statistics 2019-10-15 Mahroo Bahreinian , Roberto Tron

Verifying robustness of neural networks given a specified threat model is a fundamental yet challenging task. While current verification methods mainly focus on the $\ell_p$-norm threat model of the input instances, robustness verification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Jeet Mohapatra , Tsui-Wei , Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu , Luca Daniel