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This paper addresses the critical challenge of developing data-driven certificates for the stability and safety of unmodeled dynamical systems by leveraging a tree data structure and an upper bound of the system's Lipschitz constant.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Amy K. Strong , Ali Kashani , Claus Danielson , Leila J. Bridgeman

Hyperproperties are system properties that require quantification over multiple execution traces of a system. Hyperproperties can express several specifications of interest for cyber-physical systems--such as opacity, robustness, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Mahathi Anand , Vishnu Murali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Today, machine learning (ML) models are increasingly applied in decision making. This induces an urgent need for quality assurance of ML models with respect to (often domain-dependent) requirements. Monotonicity is one such requirement. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Arnab Sharma , Heike Wehrheim

Sensitivity-based robustness certification has emerged as a practical approach for certifying neural network robustness, including in settings that require verifiable guarantees. A key advantage of these methods is that certification is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Toby Murray

The robustness of neural networks against input perturbations with bounded magnitude represents a serious concern in the deployment of deep learning models in safety-critical systems. Recently, the scientific community has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Bernd Prach , Fabio Brau , Giorgio Buttazzo , Christoph H. Lampert

We present a data-driven approach to the quantitative verification of probabilistic programs and stochastic dynamical models. Our approach leverages neural networks to compute tight and sound bounds for the probability that a stochastic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Alessandro Abate , Alec Edwards , Mirco Giacobbe , Hashan Punchihewa , Diptarko Roy

Abstracting neural networks with constraints they impose on their inputs and outputs can be very useful in the analysis of neural network classifiers and to derive optimization-based algorithms for certification of stability and robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Navid Hashemi , Justin Ruths , Mahyar Fazlyab

The goal of this paper is certifying safety of dynamical systems subject to uncertainty. Existing approaches use trajectory data to estimate transition probabilities, and compute safety probabilities recursively via dynamic programming…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Oliver Schön , Licio Romao , Sadegh Soudjani

A barrier certificate can separate the state space of a con- sidered hybrid system (HS) into safe and unsafe parts ac- cording to the safety property to be verified. Therefore this notion has been widely used in the verification of HSs. A…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-10-25 Liyun Dai , Ting Gan , Bican Xia , Naijun Zhan

While conventional (k=1) discrete-time barrier certificate conditions impose strict safety constraints by requiring the function to be non-increasing at every step, k-inductive barrier certificates relax this by allowing a temporary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Ben Wooding , Hongchao Zhang , Taylor T. Johnson , Abolfazl Lavaei

The rapid advance of deep reinforcement learning techniques enables the oversight of safety-critical systems through the utilization of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). This underscores the pressing need to promptly establish certified safety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Dapeng Zhi , Peixin Wang , Si Liu , Luke Ong , Min Zhang

Real-life applications of deep neural networks are hindered by their unsteady predictions when faced with noisy inputs and adversarial attacks. The certified radius in this context is a crucial indicator of the robustness of models. However…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Blaise Delattre , Alexandre Araujo , Quentin Barthélemy , Alexandre Allauzen

This paper studies the problem of enforcing safety of a stochastic dynamical system over a finite time horizon. We use stochastic barrier functions as a means to quantify the probability that a system exits a given safe region of the state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Cesar Santoyo , Maxence Dutreix , Samuel Coogan

Barrier functions are a general framework for establishing a safety guarantee for a system. However, there is no general method for finding these functions. To address this shortcoming, recent approaches use self-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shaoru Chen , Lekan Molu , Mahyar Fazlyab

Safety-critical control tasks with high levels of uncertainty are becoming increasingly common. Typically, techniques that guarantee safety during learning and control utilize constraint-based safety certificates, which can be leveraged to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Alexandre Capone , Ryan Cosner , Aaron Ames , Sandra Hirche

Deep neural networks have emerged as the workhorse for a large section of robotics and control applications, especially as models for dynamical systems. Such data-driven models are in turn used for designing and verifying autonomous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Kaustubh Sridhar , Souradeep Dutta , James Weimer , Insup Lee

Randomized smoothing is the state-of-the-art approach to construct image classifiers that are provably robust against additive adversarial perturbations of bounded magnitude. However, it is more complicated to construct reasonable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dmitrii Korzh , Mikhail Pautov , Olga Tsymboi , Ivan Oseledets

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for nonlinear discrete-time systems with parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach constructs a data-consistent closed-loop representation that enables…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Amir Modares , Bahare Kiumarsi , Hamidreza Modares

This work addresses the critical challenge of guaranteeing safety for complex dynamical systems where precise mathematical models are uncertain and data measurements are corrupted by noise. We develop a physics-informed, direct data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 MohammadHossein Ashoori , Ali Aminzadeh , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

This paper presents a safe learning framework that employs an adaptive model learning algorithm together with barrier certificates for systems with possibly nonstationary agent dynamics. To extract the dynamic structure of the model, we use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Motoya Ohnishi , Li Wang , Gennaro Notomista , Magnus Egerstedt