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Deep neural networks based object detection models have revolutionized computer vision and fueled the development of a wide range of visual recognition applications. However, recent studies have revealed that deep object detectors can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Ka-Ho Chow , Ling Liu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex , Wenqi Wei , Yanzhao Wu

The topic of provable deep neural network robustness has raised considerable interest in recent years. Most research has focused on adversarial robustness, which studies the robustness of perceptive models in the neighbourhood of particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Julien Girard-Satabin , Guillaume Charpiat , Zakaria Chihani , Marc Schoenauer

Explainability has been widely stated as a cornerstone of the responsible and trustworthy use of machine learning models. With the ubiquitous use of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models expanding to risk-sensitive and safety-critical domains,…

Formal verification provides critical security assurances for neural networks, yet its practical application suffers from the long verification time. This work introduces a novel method for training verification-friendly neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Zongxin Liu , Zhe Zhao , Fu Song , Jun Sun , Pengfei Yang , Xiaowei Huang , Lijun Zhang

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have emerged as an effective approach to tackling real-world problems. However, like human-written software, DNNs can have bugs and can be attacked. To address this, research has explored a wide-range of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hai Duong , ThanhVu Nguyen , Matthew Dwyer

One major drawback of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for use in safety critical applications is their black-box nature. This makes it hard to verify or monitor complex, symbolic requirements on already trained computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Gesina Schwalbe , Christian Wirth , Ute Schmid

With the proliferation of Deep Machine Learning into real-life applications, a particular property of this technology has been brought to attention: robustness Neural Networks notoriously present low robustness and can be highly sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Marco Casadio , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Verena Rieser , Matthew L. Daggitt , Daniel Kienitz , Luca Arnaboldi , Wen Kokke

The success of neural networks across most machine learning tasks and the persistence of adversarial examples have made the verification of such models an important quest. Several techniques have been successfully developed to verify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Nathanaël Fijalkow , Mohit Kumar Gupta

Deep neural networks (NNs) for computer vision are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e., miniscule malicious changes to inputs may induce unintuitive outputs. One key approach to verify and mitigate such robustness issues is to falsify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Raik Dankworth , Gesina Schwalbe

Neural network verification tools currently support only a narrow class of specifications, typically expressed as low-level constraints over raw inputs and outputs. This limitation significantly hinders their adoption and practical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yizhak Y. Elboher , Reuven Peleg , Zhouxing Shi , Guy Katz , Jan Křetínský

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has become a dominant deep-learning paradigm for tasks where complex policies are learned within reactive systems. Unfortunately, these policies are known to be susceptible to bugs. Despite significant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Guy Amir , Davide Corsi , Raz Yerushalmi , Luca Marzari , David Harel , Alessandro Farinelli , Guy Katz

The success of Deep Learning and its potential use in many safety-critical applications has motivated research on formal verification of Neural Network (NN) models. In this context, verification involves proving or disproving that an NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Rudy Bunel , Jingyue Lu , Ilker Turkaslan , Philip H. S. Torr , Pushmeet Kohli , M. Pawan Kumar

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

In the past few years, significant progress has been made on deep neural networks (DNNs) in achieving human-level performance on several long-standing tasks. With the broader deployment of DNNs on various applications, the concerns over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Xiaowei Huang , Daniel Kroening , Wenjie Ruan , James Sharp , Youcheng Sun , Emese Thamo , Min Wu , Xinping Yi

Explaining predictions of deep neural networks (DNNs) is an important and nontrivial task. In this paper, we propose a practical approach to interpret decisions made by a DNN object detector that has fidelity comparable to state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Denis Gudovskiy , Alec Hodgkinson , Takuya Yamaguchi , Yasunori Ishii , Sotaro Tsukizawa

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

The proliferation of Deep Neural Networks has resulted in machine learning systems becoming increasingly more present in various real-world applications. Consequently, there is a growing demand for highly reliable models in many domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Pedro Conde , Rui L. Lopes , Cristiano Premebida

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have proven to be quite effective in a vast array of machine learning tasks, with recent examples in cyber security and autonomous vehicles. Despite the superior performance of DNNs in these applications, it has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Kaixuan Zhang , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Xue Liu , C. Lee Giles

Malware, or software designed with harmful intent, is an ever-evolving threat that can have drastic effects on both individuals and institutions. Neural network malware classification systems are key tools for combating these threats but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Preston K. Robinette , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Serena Serbinowska , Kevin Leach , Taylor T. Johnson

Signature is widely used in human daily lives, and serves as a supplementary characteristic for verifying human identity. However, there is rare work of verifying signature. In this paper, we propose a few deep learning architectures to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Zihan Zeng , Jing Tian