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As neural networks make their way into safety-critical systems, where misbehavior can lead to catastrophes, there is a growing interest in certifying the equivalence of two structurally similar neural networks. For example, compression…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Brandon Paulsen , Jingbo Wang , Jiawei Wang , Chao Wang

Neural networks are often used to process information from image-based sensors to produce control actions. While they are effective for this task, the complex nature of neural networks makes their output difficult to verify and predict,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Sydney M. Katz , Anthony L. Corso , Christopher A. Strong , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used to predict properties and heuristics of mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) and hence accelerate MILP solvers. This paper investigates the capacity of GNNs to represent strong branching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Ziang Chen , Jialin Liu , Xiaohan Chen , Xinshang Wang , Wotao Yin

Binary neural network (BNN) provides a promising solution to deploy parameter-intensive deep single image super-resolution (SISR) models onto real devices with limited storage and computational resources. To achieve comparable performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhiqiang Lang , Chongxing Song , Lei Zhang , Wei Wei

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently gained much attention for node and graph classification tasks on graph-structured data. However, multiple recent works showed that an attacker can easily make GNNs predict incorrectly via…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Binghui Wang , Jinyuan Jia , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

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

Formal verification is only as good as the specification of a system, which is also true for neural network verification. Existing specifications follow the paradigm of data as specification, where the local neighborhood around a reference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Chuqin Geng , Zhaoyue Wang , Haolin Ye , Xujie Si

Neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e., small input perturbations can significantly affect the outputs of a neural network. Therefore, to ensure safety of neural networks in safety-critical environments, the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Lukas Koller , Tobias Ladner , Matthias Althoff

Recent years have witnessed strong empirical performance of over-parameterized neural networks on various tasks and many advances in the theory, e.g. the universal approximation and provable convergence to global minimum. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-26 Shiyun Xu , Zhiqi Bu

In this paper, we surveyed the existing literature studying different approaches and algorithms for the four critical components in the general branch and bound (B&B) algorithm, namely, branching variable selection, node selection, node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Lingying Huang , Xiaomeng Chen , Wei Huo , Jiazheng Wang , Fan Zhang , Bo Bai , Ling Shi

Neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance in solving many problems, including many applications in safety/security-critical systems. Researchers also discovered multiple security issues associated with neural networks. One…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

We develop the first (to the best of our knowledge) provably correct neural networks for a precise computational task, with the proof of correctness generated by an automated verification algorithm without any human input. Prior work on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Rudy Bunel , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , M. Pawan Kumar , Alessandro De Palma , Robert Stanforth

Binary neural networks (BNN) have been studied extensively since they run dramatically faster at lower memory and power consumption than floating-point networks, thanks to the efficiency of bit operations. However, contemporary BNNs whose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Shilin Zhu , Xin Dong , Hao Su

Our work focuses on tackling the challenging but natural visual recognition task of long-tailed data distribution (i.e., a few classes occupy most of the data, while most classes have rarely few samples). In the literature, class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Boyan Zhou , Quan Cui , Xiu-Shen Wei , Zhao-Min Chen

Deep neural networks are notoriously miscalibrated, i.e., their outputs do not reflect the true probability of the event we aim to predict. While networks for tabular or image data are usually overconfident, recent works have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Erik Nascimento , Diego Mesquita , Samuel Kaski , Amauri H Souza

A fundamental component of neural network verification is the computation of bounds on the values their outputs can take. Previous methods have either used off-the-shelf solvers, discarding the problem structure, or relaxed the problem even…

Recent studies have demonstrated the superiority of deep learning in medical image analysis, especially in cell instance segmentation, a fundamental step for many biological studies. However, the excellent performance of the neural networks…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Huaqian Wu , Nicolas Souedet , Caroline Jan , Cédric Clouchoux , Thierry Delzescaux

Branch-and-bound approaches in integer programming require ordering portions of the space to explore next, a problem known as node comparison. We propose a new siamese graph neural network model to tackle this problem, where the nodes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Abdel Ghani Labassi , Didier Chételat , Andrea Lodi

Neural networks are often susceptible to minor perturbations in input that cause them to misclassify. A recent solution to this problem is the use of globally-robust neural networks, which employ a function to certify that the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-13 James Tobler , Hira Taqdees Syeda , Toby Murray

Deep neural networks are highly effective at a range of computational tasks. However, they tend to be computationally expensive, especially in vision-related problems, and also have large memory requirements. One of the most effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Ameya Prabhu , Vishal Batchu , Sri Aurobindo Munagala , Rohit Gajawada , Anoop Namboodiri