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Efficiently solving constrained optimization problems is crucial for numerous real-world applications, yet traditional solvers are often computationally prohibitive for real-time use. Machine learning-based approaches have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Hoang T. Nguyen , Priya L. Donti

Neural networks (NN) perform well in diverse tasks, but sometimes produce nonsensical results to humans. Most NN models "solely" learn from (input, output) pairs, occasionally conflicting with human knowledge. Many studies indicate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mooho Song , Jay-Yoon Lee

Neural networks can emulate nonlinear physical systems with high accuracy, yet they may produce physically-inconsistent results when violating fundamental constraints. Here, we introduce a systematic way of enforcing nonlinear analytic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Tom Beucler , Michael Pritchard , Stephan Rasp , Jordan Ott , Pierre Baldi , Pierre Gentine

In recent years there has been a considerable amount of research on local post hoc explanations for neural networks. However, work on building interpretable neural architectures has been relatively sparse. In this paper, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Isha Puri , Amit Dhurandhar , Tejaswini Pedapati , Kartikeyan Shanmugam , Dennis Wei , Kush R. Varshney

The integration of optimization problems within neural network architectures represents a fundamental shift from traditional approaches to handling constraints in deep learning. While it is long known that neural networks can incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Calder Katyal

Many machine learning applications require outputs that satisfy complex, dynamic constraints. This task is particularly challenging in Graph Neural Network models due to the variable output sizes of graph-structured data. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ahmed Rashwan , Keith Briggs , Chris Budd , Lisa Kreusser

This paper presents HUANet, a constrained deep neural network architecture that unrolls the iterations of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) into a trainable neural network for solving constrained convex optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Trinh Tran , Binh Nguyen , Truong X. Nghiem

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been shown to perform extremely well at a variety of tasks including subtasks of autonomous driving such as image segmentation and object classification. However, networks designed for these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yiqi Hou , Sascha Hornauer , Karl Zipser

We propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) compression algorithm based on coreset representations of filters. We exploit the redundancies extant in the space of CNN weights and neuronal activations (across samples) in order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Abhimanyu Dubey , Moitreya Chatterjee , Narendra Ahuja

This paper presents the input convex neural network architecture. These are scalar-valued (potentially deep) neural networks with constraints on the network parameters such that the output of the network is a convex function of (some of)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Brandon Amos , Lei Xu , J. Zico Kolter

Safety filters constructed from control barrier functions (CBFs) are commonly appended to pre-trained neural network controllers to enforce safety requirements. However, this decoupled design with hand-tuned, fixed CBF parameters often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Yang Zhao , Jungeun Lee , Jeong hwan Jeon , Sze Zheng Yong

In this paper, we aim at developing scalable neural network-type learning systems. Motivated by the idea of "constructive neural networks" in approximation theory, we focus on "constructing" rather than "training" feed-forward neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Shaobo Lin , Jinshan Zeng , Xiaoqin Zhang

In this work we present a new framework for neural networks compression with fine-tuning, which we called Neural Network Compression Framework (NNCF). It leverages recent advances of various network compression methods and implements some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Alexander Kozlov , Ivan Lazarevich , Vasily Shamporov , Nikolay Lyalyushkin , Yury Gorbachev

This paper focuses on finding reinforcement learning policies for control systems with hard state and action constraints. Despite its success in many domains, reinforcement learning is challenging to apply to problems with hard constraints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Liyuan Zheng , Yuanyuan Shi , Lillian J. Ratliff , Baosen Zhang

We introduce a novel architecture and computational framework for formal, automated analysis of systems with a broad set of nonlinearities in the feedback loop, such as neural networks, vision controllers, switched systems, and even simple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Ivan Papusha , Ufuk Topcu , Steven Carr , Niklas Lauffer

Binarized neural networks, or BNNs, show great promise in edge-side applications with resource limited hardware, but raise the concerns of reduced accuracy. Motivated by the complex neural networks, in this paper we introduce complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Yanfei Li , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Huimin Yu

The highly non-linear nature of deep neural networks causes them to be susceptible to adversarial examples and have unstable gradients which hinders interpretability. However, existing methods to solve these issues, such as adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Suraj Srinivas , Kyle Matoba , Himabindu Lakkaraju , Francois Fleuret

The complexity of deep neural network algorithms for hardware implementation can be much lowered by optimizing the word-length of weights and signals. Direct quantization of floating-point weights, however, does not show good performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-08 Wonyong Sung , Sungho Shin , Kyuyeon Hwang

There are two fundamental problems in applying deep learning/machine learning methods to disease classification tasks, one is the insufficient number and poor quality of training samples; another one is how to effectively fuse multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Menglin Kong , Shaojie Zhao , Juan Cheng , Xingquan Li , Ri Su , Muzhou Hou , Cong Cao

We investigate the computational complexity of neural network verification in quantised settings. We distinguish three classes of Feedforward Neural Networks (FNNs): rational FNNs with exact rational weights, quantised FNNs whose weights…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Eric Alsmann , Martin Lange , Marco Sälzer