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Deep learning has transformed the way we think of software and what it can do. But deep neural networks are fragile and their behaviors are often surprising. In many settings, we need to provide formal guarantees on the safety, security,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Aws Albarghouthi

Neural networks have emerged as essential components in safety-critical applications -- these use cases demand complex, yet trustworthy computations. Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) are a type of neural network where each neuron is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiong Yang , Yong Kiam Tan , Mate Soos , Magnus O. Myreen , Kuldeep S. Meel

We introduce CheckNet, a method for secure inference with deep neural networks on untrusted devices. CheckNet is like a checksum for neural network inference: it verifies the integrity of the inference computation performed by untrusted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Marcus Comiter , Surat Teerapittayanon , H. T. Kung

In this paper, the output reachable estimation and safety verification problems for multi-layer perceptron neural networks are addressed. First, a conception called maximum sensitivity in introduced and, for a class of multi-layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Weiming Xiang , Hoang-Dung Tran , Taylor T. Johnson

While abstraction is a classic tool of verification to scale it up, it is not used very often for verifying neural networks. However, it can help with the still open task of scaling existing algorithms to state-of-the-art network…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Pranav Ashok , Vahid Hashemi , Jan Křetínský , Stefanie Mohr

Recent developments in deep neural networks (DNNs) have led to their adoption in safety-critical systems, which in turn has heightened the need for guaranteeing their safety. These safety properties of DNNs can be proven using tools…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Remi Desmartin , Omri Isac , Grant Passmore , Kathrin Stark , Guy Katz , Ekaterina Komendantskaya

Neural networks have been widely used to solve complex real-world problems. Due to the complicate, nonlinear, non-convex nature of neural networks, formal safety guarantees for the behaviors of neural network systems will be crucial for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Weiming Xiang , Diego Manzanas Lopez , Patrick Musau , Taylor T. Johnson

Neural networks are increasingly relied upon as components of complex safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles. There is high demand for tools and methods that embed neural network verification in a larger verification cycle.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Remi Desmartin , Grant Passmore , Ekaterina Komendantskaya , Matthew Daggitt

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has achieved impressive performance in robotics and autonomous systems (RAS). A key challenge to its deployment in real-life operations is the presence of spuriously unsafe DRL policies. Unexplored states…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Yi Dong , Xingyu Zhao , Sen Wang , Xiaowei Huang

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 decision logic for the ACAS X family of aircraft collision avoidance systems is represented as a large numeric table. Due to storage constraints of certified avionics hardware, neural networks have been suggested as a way to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Kyle D. Julian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Recurrent neural network (RNN) is an effective neural network in solving very complex supervised and unsupervised tasks. There has been a significant improvement in RNN field such as natural language processing, speech processing, computer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Mohammed Harun Babu R , Vinayakumar R , Soman KP

This paper is devoted to measuring the security of cyber networks under advanced persistent threats (APTs). First, an APT-based cyber attack-defense process is modeled as an individual-level dynamical system. Second, the dynamic model is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Lu-Xing Yang , Pengdeng Li , Xiaofan Yang , Luosheng Wen , Yingbo Wu , Yuan Yan Tang

Deep neural networks are revolutionizing the way complex systems are developed. However, these automatically-generated networks are opaque to humans, making it difficult to reason about them and guarantee their correctness. Here, we propose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yuval Jacoby , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

Central to the success of artificial neural networks is their ability to generalize. But does neural network generalization primarily rely on seeing highly similar training examples (memorization)? Or are neural networks capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Chiyuan Zhang , Maithra Raghu , Jon Kleinberg , Samy Bengio

In this paper we investigate formal verification problems for Neural Network computations. Of central importance will be various robustness and minimization problems such as: Given symbolic specifications of allowed inputs and outputs in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Adrian Wurm

Trustworthiness has become a key requirement for the deployment of artificial intelligence systems in safety-critical applications. Conventional evaluation metrics, such as accuracy and precision, fail to appropriately capture uncertainty…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Koffi Ismael Ouattara , Ioannis Krontiris , Theo Dimitrakos , Dennis Eisermann , Houda Labiod , Frank Kargl

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

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

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