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Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Marco Lewis , Paolo Zuliani , Sadegh Soudjani

Barrier functions (also called certificates) have been an important tool for the verification of hybrid systems, and have also played important roles in optimization and multi-objective control. The extension of a barrier function to a…

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Robustness certification against bounded input noise or adversarial perturbations is increasingly important for deployment recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in safety-critical control applications. To address this challenge, we present…

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Machine teaching can be viewed as optimal control for learning. Given a learner's model, machine teaching aims to determine the optimal training data to steer the learner towards a target hypothesis. In this paper, we are interested in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Bo Wu , Yuxin Chen , Yisong Yue , Ufuk Topcu

Learning-based methods provide a promising approach to solving highly non-linear control tasks that are often challenging for classical control methods. To ensure the satisfaction of a safety property, learning-based methods jointly learn a…

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Neural networks offer a computationally efficient approximation of model predictive control, but they lack guarantees on the resulting controlled system's properties. Formal certification of neural networks is crucial for ensuring safety,…

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We present a novel technique for online safety verification of autonomous systems, which performs reachability analysis efficiently for both bounded and unbounded horizons by employing neural barrier certificates. Our approach uses barrier…

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Neural networks have become increasingly popular in controller design due to their versatility and efficiency. However, their integration into feedback systems can pose stability challenges, particularly in the presence of uncertainties.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Yuhao Zhang , Xiangru Xu

Motivated by the fragility of neural network (NN) controllers in safety-critical applications, we present a data-driven framework for verifying the risk of stochastic dynamical systems with NN controllers. Given a stochastic control system,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-14 Matthew Cleaveland , Lars Lindemann , Radoslav Ivanov , George Pappas

Deep Neural Networks are vulnerable to small perturbations that can drastically alter their predictions for perceptually unchanged inputs. The literature on adversarially robust Deep Learning attempts to either enhance the robustness of…

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The neural network has become an integral part of modern software systems. However, they still suffer from various problems, in particular, vulnerability to adversarial attacks. In this work, we present a novel program reasoning framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Zi Wang , Somesh Jha , Krishnamurthy , Dvijotham

Barrier certificates provide functional overapproximations for the reachable set of dynamical systems and provide inductive guarantees on the safe evolution of the system. In automata-theoretic verification, a key query is to determine…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Vishnu Murali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

Due to their expressive power, neural networks (NNs) are promising templates for functional optimization problems, particularly for reach-avoid certificate generation for systems governed by stochastic differential equations (SDEs).…

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This work is concerned with the safety controller synthesis of stochastic hybrid systems, in which continuous evolutions are described by stochastic differential equations with both Brownian motions and Poisson processes, and instantaneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Abolfazl Lavaei , Sadegh Soudjani , Emilio Frazzoli

Deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) as core functions in autonomous driving creates unique verification and validation challenges. In particular, the continuous engineering paradigm of gradually perfecting a DNN-based perception can make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Chih-Hong Cheng , Rongjie Yan

Barrier certificates play an important role in verifying the safety of continuous-time systems, including autonomous driving, robotic manipulators and other critical applications. Recently, ReLU neural barrier certificates -- barrier…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Dejin Ren , Yiling Xue , Taoran Wu , Bai Xue

A barrier certificate, defined over the states of a dynamical system, is a real-valued function whose zero level set characterizes an inductively verifiable state invariant separating reachable states from unsafe ones. When combined with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Vishnu Murali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani