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We investigate the computational complexity of neural network verification in quantised settings. We distinguish three classes of Feedforward Neural Networks (FNNs): rational FNNs with exact rational weights, quantised FNNs whose weights…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Eric Alsmann , Martin Lange , Marco Sälzer

We investigate the complexity of the reachability problem for (deep) neural networks: does it compute valid output given some valid input? It was recently claimed that the problem is NP-complete for general neural networks and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Marco Sälzer , Martin Lange

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become the de facto standard for modeling the human visual system, primarily due to their success in predicting neural responses. However, with many models now achieving similar predictive accuracy, we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-30 Nikolas McNeal , N. Apurva Ratan Murty

It has been shown that neural network classifiers are not robust. This raises concerns about their usage in safety-critical systems. We propose in this paper a regularization scheme for ReLU networks which provably improves the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Francesco Croce , Maksym Andriushchenko , Matthias Hein

Neural networks achieve outstanding accuracy in classification and regression tasks. However, understanding their behavior still remains an open challenge that requires questions to be addressed on the robustness, explainability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Anna-Kathrin Kopetzki , Stephan Günnemann

Robustness of neural networks has recently attracted a great amount of interest. The many investigations in this area lack a precise common foundation of robustness concepts. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a rigorous and flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Alessandro Tibo , Manfred Jaeger , Kim G. Larsen

Despite significant progress in post-hoc explanation methods for neural networks, many remain heuristic and lack provable guarantees. A key approach for obtaining explanations with provable guarantees is by identifying a cardinally-minimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Shahaf Bassan , Yizhak Yisrael Elboher , Tobias Ladner , Volkan Şahin , Jan Kretinsky , Matthias Althoff , Guy Katz

Verification of neural networks enables us to gauge their robustness against adversarial attacks. Verification algorithms fall into two categories: exact verifiers that run in exponential time and relaxed verifiers that are efficient but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Hadi Salman , Greg Yang , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Pengchuan Zhang

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs) are a novel neural architecture, built around initial value problems with learned dynamics which are solved during inference. Thought to be inherently more robust against adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Mustafa Zeqiri , Mark Niklas Müller , Marc Fischer , Martin Vechev

Verification of deep neural networks has witnessed a recent surge of interest, fueled by success stories in diverse domains and by abreast concerns about safety and security in envisaged applications. Complexity and sheer size of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dario Guidotti , Francesco Leofante , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella

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

Neural Architectures Search (NAS) becomes more and more popular over these years. However, NAS-generated models tends to suffer greater vulnerability to various malicious attacks. Lots of robust NAS methods leverage adversarial training to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Xunyu Zhu , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely used in real-world applications, yet they remain vulnerable to errors and adversarial attacks. Formal verification offers a systematic approach to identify and mitigate these vulnerabilities, enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yizhak Y. Elboher , Avraham Raviv , Yael Leibovich Weiss , Omer Cohen , Roy Assa , Guy Katz , Hillel Kugler

Neural networks have demonstrated considerable success on a wide variety of real-world problems. However, networks trained only to optimize for training accuracy can often be fooled by adversarial examples - slightly perturbed inputs that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Vincent Tjeng , Kai Xiao , Russ Tedrake

Learning-based methods could provide solutions to many of the long-standing challenges in control. However, the neural networks (NNs) commonly used in modern learning approaches present substantial challenges for analyzing the resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Michael Everett

Specifications - precise mathematical representations of correct domain-specific behaviors - are crucial to guarantee the trustworthiness of computer systems. With the increasing development of neural networks as computer system components,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Isha Chaudhary , Shuyi Lin , Cheng Tan , Gagandeep Singh

Toward achieving robust and defensive neural networks, the robustness against the weight parameters perturbations, i.e., sharpness, attracts attention in recent years (Sun et al., 2020). However, sharpness is known to remain a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Hikaru Ibayashi , Takuo Hamaguchi , Masaaki Imaizumi

With deep neural networks providing state-of-the-art machine learning models for numerous machine learning tasks, quantifying the robustness of these models has become an important area of research. However, most of the research literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Lam M. Nguyen , Mark S. Squillante , Ivan Oseledets , Luca Daniel

In this paper, we introduce several geometric characterizations for strong minima of optimization problems. Applying these results to nuclear norm minimization problems allows us to obtain new necessary and sufficient quantitative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Jalal Fadili , Tran T. A. Nghia , Duy Nhat Phan

Neural Networks (NNs) have increasingly apparent safety implications commensurate with their proliferation in real-world applications: both unanticipated as well as adversarial misclassifications can result in fatal outcomes. As a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Haitham Khedr , James Ferlez , Yasser Shoukry