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Bound propagation based incomplete neural network verifiers such as CROWN are very efficient and can significantly accelerate branch-and-bound (BaB) based complete verification of neural networks. However, bound propagation cannot fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shiqi Wang , Huan Zhang , Kaidi Xu , Xue Lin , Suman Jana , Cho-Jui Hsieh , J. Zico Kolter

Bound propagation methods, when combined with branch and bound, are among the most effective methods to formally verify properties of deep neural networks such as correctness, robustness, and safety. However, existing works cannot handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Huan Zhang , Shiqi Wang , Kaidi Xu , Linyi Li , Bo Li , Suman Jana , Cho-Jui Hsieh , J. Zico Kolter

Recent works have shown that interval bound propagation (IBP) can be used to train verifiably robust neural networks. Reseachers observe an intriguing phenomenon on these IBP trained networks: CROWN, a bounding method based on tight linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Zhaoyang Lyu , Minghao Guo , Tong Wu , Guodong Xu , Kehuan Zhang , Dahua Lin

Although neural networks have been applied to several systems in recent years, they still cannot be used in safety-critical systems due to the lack of efficient techniques to certify their robustness. A number of techniques based on convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ziye Ma , Somayeh Sojoudi

Neural networks are central to many emerging technologies, but verifying their correctness remains a major challenge. It is known that network outputs can be sensitive and fragile to even small input perturbations, thereby increasing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Anton Xue , Lars Lindemann , Rajeev Alur

Training neural networks with verifiable robustness guarantees is challenging. Several existing approaches utilize linear relaxation based neural network output bounds under perturbation, but they can slow down training by a factor of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Huan Zhang , Hongge Chen , Chaowei Xiao , Sven Gowal , Robert Stanforth , Bo Li , Duane Boning , Cho-Jui Hsieh

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

Learning-based methods for synthesizing controllers have gained popularity due to their high expressiveness and strong empirical performance. However, in safety-critical scenarios such as autonomous driving, robotics, and power systems,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Haoyu Li , Xiangru Zhong , Hao Cheng , Bin Hu , Huan Zhang

Certifiable robustness is a highly desirable property for adopting deep neural networks (DNNs) in safety-critical scenarios, but often demands tedious computations to establish. The main hurdle lies in the massive amount of non-linearity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Tianlong Chen , Huan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Shiyu Chang , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Zhangyang Wang

State-of-the-art neural network (NN) verifiers demonstrate that applying the branch-and-bound (BaB) procedure with fast bounding techniques plays a key role in tackling many challenging verification properties. In this work, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Duo Zhou , Jorge Chavez , Hesun Chen , Grani A. Hanasusanto , Huan Zhang

Certifying the safety or robustness of neural networks against input uncertainties and adversarial attacks is an emerging challenge in the area of safe machine learning and control. To provide such a guarantee, one must be able to bound the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-16 Mahyar Fazlyab , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

Verification of deep neural networks has witnessed a recent surge of interest, fueled by success stories in diverse domains and by abreast concerns about safety and security in envisaged applications. Complexity and sheer size of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Dario Guidotti , Francesco Leofante , Luca Pulina , Armando Tacchella

Recently, cutting-plane methods such as GCP-CROWN have been explored to enhance neural network verifiers and made significant advances. However, GCP-CROWN currently relies on generic cutting planes (cuts) generated from external mixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Duo Zhou , Christopher Brix , Grani A Hanasusanto , Huan Zhang

The rapid growth of deep learning applications in real life is accompanied by severe safety concerns. To mitigate this uneasy phenomenon, much research has been done providing reliable evaluations of the fragility level in different deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Zhaoyang Lyu , Ching-Yun Ko , Zhifeng Kong , Ngai Wong , Dahua Lin , Luca Daniel

Deep neural networks have been widely adopted in many vision and robotics applications with visual inputs. It is essential to verify its robustness against semantic transformation perturbations, such as brightness and contrast. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Hanjiang Hu , Bowei Li , Ziwei Wang , Tianhao Wei , Casidhe Hutchison , Eric Sample , Changliu Liu

Semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation has emerged as a promising approach for neural network verification, offering tighter bounds than other convex relaxation methods for deep neural networks (DNNs) with ReLU activations. However, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ryota Ueda , Takami Sato , Ken Kobayashi , Kazuhide Nakata

With the increasing application of deep learning in mission-critical systems, there is a growing need to obtain formal guarantees about the behaviors of neural networks. Indeed, many approaches for verifying neural networks have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Tom Zelazny , Haoze Wu , Clark Barrett , Guy Katz

Most work on the formal verification of neural networks has focused on bounding the set of outputs that correspond to a given set of inputs (for example, bounded perturbations of a nominal input). However, many use cases of neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Suhas Kotha , Christopher Brix , Zico Kolter , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Huan Zhang

Neural networks achieve strong empirical performance, but robustness concerns still hinder deployment in safety-critical applications. Formal verification provides robustness guarantees, but current methods face a scalability-completeness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Wenting Li , Saif R. Kazi , Russell Bent , Duo Zhou , Huan Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been shown lack of robustness for the vulnerability of their classification to small perturbations on the inputs. This has led to safety concerns of applying DNNs to safety-critical domains. Several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Jianlin Li , Pengfei Yang , Jiangchao Liu , Liqian Chen , Xiaowei Huang , Lijun Zhang
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