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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

Compressing large Neural Networks (NN) by quantizing the parameters, while maintaining the performance is highly desirable due to reduced memory and time complexity. In this work, we cast NN quantization as a discrete labelling problem, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Thalaiyasingam Ajanthan , Puneet K. Dokania , Richard Hartley , Philip H. S. Torr

As a new programming paradigm, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been increasingly deployed in practice, but the lack of robustness hinders their applications in safety-critical domains. While there are techniques for verifying DNNs with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jiaxiang Liu , Yunhan Xing , Xiaomu Shi , Fu Song , Zhiwu Xu , Zhong Ming

Deep neural networks (NN) are extensively used for machine learning tasks such as image classification, perception and control of autonomous systems. Increasingly, these deep NNs are also been deployed in high-assurance applications. Thus,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Souradeep Dutta , Susmit Jha , Sriram Sanakaranarayanan , Ashish Tiwari

In comparison to classical shallow representation learning techniques, deep neural networks have achieved superior performance in nearly every application benchmark. But despite their clear empirical advantages, it is still not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Calvin Murdock , George Cazenavette , Simon Lucey

We present a scalable and precise verifier for recurrent neural networks, called Prover based on two novel ideas: (i) a method to compute a set of polyhedral abstractions for the non-convex and nonlinear recurrent update functions by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Wonryong Ryou , Jiayu Chen , Mislav Balunovic , Gagandeep Singh , Andrei Dan , Martin Vechev

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

A wide range of verification methods have been proposed to verify the safety properties of deep neural networks ensuring that the networks function correctly in critical applications. However, many well-known verification tools still…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Yuyi Zhong , Ruiwei Wang , Siau-Cheng Khoo

Abstraction is essential for reducing the complexity of systems across diverse fields, yet designing effective abstraction methodology for probabilistic models is inherently challenging due to stochastic behaviors and uncertainties. Current…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Nijesh Upreti , Vaishak Belle

Neural networks are ubiquitous. However, they are often sensitive to small input changes. Hence, to prevent unexpected behavior in safety-critical applications, their formal verification -- a notoriously hard problem -- is necessary. Many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Lukas Koller , Tobias Ladner , Matthias Althoff

We present a novel method for the safety verification of nonlinear dynamical models that uses neural networks to represent abstractions of their dynamics. Neural networks have extensively been used before as approximators; in this work, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Alessandro Abate , Alec Edwards , Mirco Giacobbe

Neural network verification aims at providing formal guarantees on the output of trained neural networks, to ensure their robustness against adversarial examples and enable their deployment in safety-critical applications. This paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Haoruo Zhao , Hassan Hijazi , Haydn Jones , Juston Moore , Mathieu Tanneau , Pascal Van Hentenryck

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

In this paper, we consider the problem of output range analysis for feed-forward neural networks with ReLU activation functions. The existing approaches reduce the output range analysis problem to satisfiability and optimization solving,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Pavithra Prabhakar , Zahra Rahimi Afzal

This paper addresses the problem of formally verifying desirable properties of neural networks, i.e., obtaining provable guarantees that neural networks satisfy specifications relating their inputs and outputs (robustness to bounded norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Krishnamurthy , Dvijotham , Robert Stanforth , Sven Gowal , Timothy Mann , Pushmeet Kohli

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have demonstrated remarkable utility in various challenging machine learning applications. While formally verified properties of their behaviors are highly desired, they have proven notoriously difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Xuankang Lin , He Zhu , Roopsha Samanta , Suresh Jagannathan

In the last decade, a large body of work has emerged on robustness of neural networks, i.e., checking if the decision remains unchanged when the input is slightly perturbed. However, most of these approaches ignore the confidence of a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mohammad Afzal , S. Akshay , Blaise Genest , Ashutosh Gupta

The predictive power of neural networks often costs model interpretability. Several techniques have been developed for explaining model outputs in terms of input features; however, it is difficult to translate such interpretations into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Benjamin J. Lengerich , Sandeep Konam , Eric P. Xing , Stephanie Rosenthal , Manuela Veloso

In this paper, we consider the problem of formally verifying the safety of an autonomous robot equipped with a Neural Network (NN) controller that processes LiDAR images to produce control actions. Given a workspace that is characterized by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Xiaowu Sun , Haitham Khedr , Yasser Shoukry

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…