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We introduce LiPopt, a polynomial optimization framework for computing increasingly tighter upper bounds on the Lipschitz constant of neural networks. The underlying optimization problems boil down to either linear (LP) or semidefinite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Fabian Latorre , Paul Rolland , Volkan Cevher

In this paper, we study certifying the robustness of ReLU neural networks against adversarial input perturbations. To diminish the relaxation error suffered by the popular linear programming (LP) and semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Brendon G. Anderson , Ziye Ma , Jingqi Li , Somayeh Sojoudi

This paper is concerned with the computation of the local Lipschitz constant of feedforward neural networks (FNNs) with activation functions being rectified linear units (ReLUs). The local Lipschitz constant of an FNN for a target input is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Yoshio Ebihara , Xin Dai , Victor Magron , Dimitri Peaucelle , Sophie Tarbouriech

For a given stable recurrent neural network (RNN) that is trained to perform a classification task using sequential inputs, we quantify explicit robustness bounds as a function of trainable weight matrices. The sequential inputs can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Guangyi Liu , Arash Amini , Martin Takac , Nader Motee

For verifying the safety of neural networks (NNs), Fazlyab et al. (2019) introduced a semidefinite programming (SDP) approach called DeepSDP. This formulation can be viewed as the dual of the SDP relaxation for a problem formulated as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Godai Azuma , Sunyoung Kim , Makoto Yamashita

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Thomas Massena , Corentin Friedrich , Franck Mamalet , Mathieu Serrurier

Neural Lyapunov and barrier certificates have recently been used as powerful tools for verifying the safety and stability properties of deep reinforcement learning (RL) controllers. However, existing methods offer guarantees only under…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chengxiao Wang , Haoze Wu , Gagandeep Singh

The global Lipschitz constant of a neural network is related to robustness and generalization, yet unlike in many classical models, it is not plainly legible from the parameters. This has motivated sophisticated verification algorithms,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Simon Kuang , Yuezhu Xu , S. Sivaranjani , Xinfan Lin

Convex relaxations have emerged as a promising approach for verifying desirable properties of neural networks like robustness to adversarial perturbations. Widely used Linear Programming (LP) relaxations only work well when networks are…

The Lipschitz constant is a key measure for certifying the robustness of neural networks to input perturbations. However, computing the exact constant is NP-hard, and standard approaches to estimate the Lipschitz constant involve solving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yuezhu Xu , S. Sivaranjani

The Lipschitz constant of the map between the input and output space represented by a neural network is a natural metric for assessing the robustness of the model. We present a new method to constrain the Lipschitz constant of dense deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Ouail Kitouni , Niklas Nolte , Mike Williams

Robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial perturbations is a pressing concern motivated by recent findings showing the pervasive nature of such vulnerabilities. One method of characterizing the robustness of a neural network…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-15 Hisham Husain , Borja Balle

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

State-of-the-art approaches for training Differentially Private (DP) Deep Neural Networks (DNN) face difficulties to estimate tight bounds on the sensitivity of the network's layers, and instead rely on a process of per-sample gradient…

Deriving sharp and computable upper bounds of the Lipschitz constant of deep neural networks is crucial to formally guarantee the robustness of neural-network based models. We analyse three existing upper bounds written for the $l^2$ norm.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Moreno Pintore , Bruno Després

To improve the robustness of deep classifiers against adversarial perturbations, many approaches have been proposed, such as designing new architectures with better robustness properties (e.g., Lipschitz-capped networks), or modifying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Mahyar Fazlyab , Taha Entesari , Aniket Roy , Rama Chellappa

This paper proposes a theoretical and computational framework for training and robustness verification of implicit neural networks based upon non-Euclidean contraction theory. The basic idea is to cast the robustness analysis of a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Saber Jafarpour , Alexander Davydov , Matthew Abate , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan

Methods to certify the robustness of neural networks in the presence of input uncertainty are vital in safety-critical settings. Most certification methods in the literature are designed for adversarial input uncertainty, but researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Brendon G. Anderson , Somayeh Sojoudi

Recent studies have highlighted the potential of Lipschitz-based methods for training certifiably robust neural networks against adversarial attacks. A key challenge, supported both theoretically and empirically, is that robustness demands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Kai Hu , Klas Leino , Zifan Wang , Matt Fredrikson

Training convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with a strict 1-Lipschitz constraint under the $l_{2}$ norm is useful for adversarial robustness, interpretable gradients and stable training. 1-Lipschitz CNNs are usually designed by enforcing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi