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Adversarial training is well-known to produce high-quality neural network models that are empirically robust against adversarial perturbations. Nevertheless, once a model has been adversarially trained, one often desires a certification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Hong-Ming Chiu , Richard Y. Zhang

This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty. A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for…

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Barrier certificates are scalar functions over the state space of dynamical systems that separate all unsafe states from all reachable states. The existence of a barrier certificate formally verifies the safety of the dynamical system.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Miriam Kranzlmüller , Lukas Koller , Tobias Ladner , Matthias Althoff

We present a unified convergence theory for gradient-based training of neural network methods for partial differential equations (PDEs), covering both physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and the Deep Ritz method. For linear PDEs, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Wei Zhao , Tao Luo

This paper presents a novel approach to training neural networks with formal safety guarantees using semidefinite programming (SDP) for verification. Our method focuses on verifying safety over large, high-dimensional input regions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Roman Soletskyi , David "davidad" Dalrymple

Certified robustness is a critical property for deploying neural networks (NN) in safety-critical applications. A principle approach to achieving such guarantees is to constrain the global Lipschitz constant of the network. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zain ul Abdeen , Vassilis Kekatos , Ming Jin

A learning method is self-certified if it uses all available data to simultaneously learn a predictor and certify its quality with a tight statistical certificate that is valid on unseen data. Recent work has shown that neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Maria Perez-Ortiz , Omar Rivasplata , Emilio Parrado-Hernandez , Benjamin Guedj , John Shawe-Taylor

In this paper, we consider the problem of certifying the robustness of neural networks to perturbed and adversarial input data. Such certification is imperative for the application of neural networks in safety-critical decision-making and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Brendon G. Anderson , Ziye Ma , Jingqi Li , Somayeh Sojoudi

Ensuring string stability is critical for the safety and efficiency of large-scale interconnected systems. Although learning-based controllers (e.g., those based on reinforcement learning) have demonstrated strong performance in complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Jingyuan Zhou , Haoze Wu , Haokun Yu , Kaidi Yang

(Partial) differential equations (PDEs) are fundamental tools for describing natural phenomena, making their solution crucial in science and engineering. While traditional methods, such as the finite element method, provide reliable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Viggo Moro , Luiz F. O. Chamon

Deep neural networks (DNNs) enable high performance across domains but remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, limiting their use in safety-critical settings. Here, we introduce two quantum-optimization-based models for robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Wenxin Li , Wenchao Liu , Chuan Wang , Qi Gao , Yin Ma , Hai Wei , Kai Wen

We introduce a practical method to enforce partial differential equation (PDE) constraints for functions defined by neural networks (NNs), with a high degree of accuracy and up to a desired tolerance. We develop a differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Geoffrey Négiar , Michael W. Mahoney , Aditi S. Krishnapriyan

Many successful methods to learn dynamical systems from data have recently been introduced. However, ensuring that the inferred dynamics preserve known constraints, such as conservation laws or restrictions on the allowed system states,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Alistair White , Niki Kilbertus , Maximilian Gelbrecht , Niklas Boers

In the field of machine unlearning, certified unlearning has been extensively studied in convex machine learning models due to its high efficiency and strong theoretical guarantees. However, its application to deep neural networks (DNNs),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Binchi Zhang , Yushun Dong , Tianhao Wang , Jundong Li

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…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Paul Hamelbeck , Johannes Schiffer

This paper presents an empirical study regarding training probabilistic neural networks using training objectives derived from PAC-Bayes bounds. In the context of probabilistic neural networks, the output of training is a probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-23 María Pérez-Ortiz , Omar Rivasplata , John Shawe-Taylor , Csaba Szepesvári

Neural networks are increasingly used as fast surrogate models across various domains, but unconstrained predictions can violate physical, operational, or safety requirements. We propose SnareNet, a feasibility-controlled architecture to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ya-Chi Chu , Alkiviades Boukas , Madeleine Udell

Neural networks (NNs) can achieved high performance in various fields such as computer vision, and natural language processing. However, deploying NNs in resource-constrained safety-critical systems has challenges due to uncertainty in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Soyed Tuhin Ahmed

Uncertainty quantification for partial differential equations is traditionally grounded in discretization theory, where solution error is controlled via mesh/grid refinement. Physics-informed neural networks fundamentally depart from this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Amartya Mukherjee , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , David C. Del Rey Fernández , Jun Liu

We propose Trusted Neural Network (TNN) models, which are deep neural network models that satisfy safety constraints critical to the application domain. We investigate different mechanisms for incorporating rule-based knowledge in the form…

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