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This article presents a new set representation named the hybrid zonotope that is equivalent to the union of $2^N$ constrained zonotopes -- convex polytopes -- through the addition of $N$ binary zonotope factors. The major contribution of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-26 Trevor J. Bird , Herschel C. Pangborn , Neera Jain , Justin P. Koeln

This paper proposes methods for reachability analysis of nonlinear systems in both open loop and closed loop with advanced controllers. The methods combine hybrid zonotopes, a construct called a state-update set, functional decomposition,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-26 Jacob A. Siefert , Trevor J. Bird , Andrew F. Thompson , Jonah J. Glunt , Justin P. Koeln , Neera Jain , Herschel C. Pangborn

We introduce sparse polynomial zonotopes, a new set representation for formal verification of hybrid systems. Sparse polynomial zonotopes can represent non-convex sets and are generalizations of zonotopes, polytopes, and Taylor models.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff

Feedforward neural networks are widely used in autonomous systems, particularly for control and perception tasks within the system loop. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks necessitates formal verification before deployment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Reachability analysis for hybrid nonaffine systems remains computationally challenging, as existing set representations--including constrained, polynomial, and hybrid zonotopes--either lose tightness under high-order nonaffine maps or…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Peng Xie , Zhen Zhang , Amr Alanwar

We show that hybrid zonotopes offer an equivalent representation of feed-forward fully connected neural networks with ReLU activation functions. Our approach demonstrates that the complexity of binary variables is equal to the total number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Joshua Ortiz , Alyssa Vellucci , Justin Koeln , Justin Ruths

Hybrid zonotopes generalize constrained zonotopes by introducing additional binary variables and possess some unique properties that make them convenient to represent nonconvex sets. This paper presents novel hybrid zonotope-based methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-06 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

The proliferation of neural networks in safety-critical applications necessitates the development of effective methods to ensure their safety. This letter presents a novel approach for computing the exact backward reachable sets of neural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Yuhao Zhang , Hang Zhang , Xiangru Xu

This paper introduces zonoLAB, a MATLAB-based toolbox for set-based control system analysis using the hybrid zonotope set representation. Hybrid zonotopes have proven to be an expressive set representation that can exactly represent the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Justin Koeln , Trevor J. Bird , Jacob Siefert , Justin Ruths , Herschel Pangborn , Neera Jain

The increasing prevalence of neural networks in safety-critical control systems underscores the imperative need for rigorous methods to ensure the reliability and safety of these systems. This work introduces a novel approach employing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Hang Zhang , Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

This paper addresses the challenging issue of symmetry in mixed-integer convex optimization problems, which frequently arise in real-world applications such as the unit commitment problem. Although variable aggregation techniques have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Junhao Wu , Shaoze Li , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Shu-Cherng Fang

This paper presents methods for using zonotopes and constrained zonotopes to improve the practicality of a wide variety of set-based operations commonly used in control theory. The proposed methods extend the use of constrained zonotopes to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Vignesh Raghuraman , Justin P. Koeln

Even though neural networks are being increasingly deployed in safety-critical control applications, it remains difficult to enforce constraints on their output, meaning that it is hard to guarantee safety in such settings. While many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Long Kiu Chung , Shreyas Kousik

This paper introduces a class of mixed-integer formulations for trained ReLU neural networks. The approach balances model size and tightness by partitioning node inputs into a number of groups and forming the convex hull over the partitions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Calvin Tsay , Jan Kronqvist , Alexander Thebelt , Ruth Misener

The reformulation-linearization technique (RLT) is a prominent approach to constructing tight linear relaxations of non-convex continuous and mixed-integer optimization problems. The goal of this paper is to extend the applicability and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-22 Ksenia Bestuzheva , Ambros Gleixner , Tobias Achterberg

The NP-hard problem of optimizing a shallow ReLU network can be characterized as a combinatorial search over each training example's activation pattern followed by a constrained convex problem given a fixed set of activation patterns. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Michael Matena , Colin Raffel

We investigate mixed-integer second-order conic (SOC) sets with a nonlinear right-hand side in the SOC constraint, a structure frequently arising in mixed-integer quadratically constrained programming (MIQCP). Under mild assumptions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Guxin Du , Rui Chen , Linchuan Wei

Mixed integer convex and nonlinear programs, MICP and MINLP, are expressive but require long solving times. Recent work that combines learning methods on solver heuristics has shown potential to overcome this issue allowing for applications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xuan Lin , Gabriel I. Fernandez , Dennis W. Hong

This paper introduces mixed-integer optimization methods to solve regression problems that incorporate fairness metrics. We propose an exact formulation for training fair regression models. To tackle this computationally hard problem, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Anna Deza , Andrés Gómez , Alper Atamtürk

We introduce constrained polynomial zonotopes, a novel non-convex set representation that is closed under linear map, Minkowski sum, Cartesian product, convex hull, intersection, union, and quadratic as well as higher-order maps. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Niklas Kochdumper , Matthias Althoff
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