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The computational requirements for training deep neural networks (DNNs) have grown to the point that it is now standard practice to parallelize training. Existing deep learning systems commonly use data or model parallelism, but…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Zhihao Jia , Matei Zaharia , Alex Aiken

We introduce JPC, a JAX library for training neural networks with Predictive Coding. JPC provides a simple, fast and flexible interface to train a variety of PC networks (PCNs) including discriminative, generative and hybrid models. Unlike…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Francesco Innocenti , Paul Kinghorn , Will Yun-Farmbrough , Miguel De Llanza Varona , Ryan Singh , Christopher L. Buckley

The design of tracking controllers that closely follow a reference trajectory while ensuring safety and robustness against disturbances is a challenging problem in the control of autonomous systems. In this work, we propose a neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Yuezhu Xu , Mohamed Serry , Jun Liu , S. Sivaranjani

We propose a novel Branch-and-Bound method for reachability analysis of neural networks in both open-loop and closed-loop settings. Our idea is to first compute accurate bounds on the Lipschitz constant of the neural network in certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Taha Entesari , Sina Sharifi , Mahyar Fazlyab

We study the verification problem for closed-loop dynamical systems with neural-network controllers (NNCS). This problem is commonly reduced to computing the set of reachable states. When considering dynamical systems and neural networks in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-07 Christian Schilling , Marcelo Forets , Sebastian Guadalupe

The decision logic for the ACAS X family of aircraft collision avoidance systems is represented as a large numeric table. Due to storage constraints of certified avionics hardware, neural networks have been suggested as a way to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Kyle D. Julian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We present a simple dynamic batching approach applicable to a large class of dynamic architectures that consistently yields speedups of over 10x. We provide performance bounds when the architecture is not known a priori and a stronger bound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Joseph Suarez , Clare Zhu

This work proposes a robust data-driven predictive control approach for unknown nonlinear systems in the presence of bounded process and measurement noise. Data-driven reachable sets are employed for the controller design instead of using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Mahsa Farjadnia , Amr Alanwar , Muhammad Umar B. Niazi , Marco Molinari , Karl Henrik Johansson

Over-approximating the reachable sets of dynamical systems is a fundamental problem in safety verification and robust control synthesis. The representation of these sets is a key factor that affects the computational complexity and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Taha Entesari , Mahyar Fazlyab

The increasing prevalence of neural networks (NNs) in safety-critical applications calls for methods to certify their behavior and guarantee safety. This paper presents a backward reachability approach for safety verification of neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Nicholas Rober , Michael Everett , Jonathan P. How

Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability provides formal safety guarantees for nonlinear systems. However, it becomes computationally intractable in high-dimensional settings, motivating learning-based approximations that may introduce unsafe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Ebonye Smith , Sampada Deglurkar , Jingqi Li , Gechen Qu , Claire J. Tomlin

This paper presents a novel contingency planning framework that integrates learning-based multi-modal predictions of traffic participants into Branch Model Predictive Control (MPC). Leveraging reachability analysis, we address the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Mohamed-Khalil Bouzidi , Bojan Derajic , Daniel Goehring , Joerg Reichardt

Reachable set computation is an important tool for analyzing control systems. Simulating a control system can show general trends, but a formal tool like reachability analysis can provide guarantees of correctness. Reachability analysis for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-07 Chelsea Sidrane , Jana Tumova

Designing provably safe control is a core problem in trustworthy autonomy. However, most prior work in this regard assumes either that the system dynamics are known or deterministic, or that the state and action space are finite,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xinhang Ma , Junlin Wu , Yiannis Kantaros , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

As neural networks (NNs) become more prevalent in safety-critical applications such as control of vehicles, there is a growing need to certify that systems with NN components are safe. This paper presents a set of backward reachability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Nicholas Rober , Sydney M. Katz , Chelsea Sidrane , Esen Yel , Michael Everett , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Jonathan P. How

We present a novel framework that jointly trains a neural network controller and a neural Riemannian metric with rigorous closed-loop contraction guarantees using formal bound propagation. Directly bounding the symmetric Riemannian…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Akash Harapanahalli , Samuel Coogan , Alexander Davydov

Reachable set computation is an important technique for the verification of safety properties of dynamical systems. In this paper, we investigate reachable set computation for discrete nonlinear systems based on parallelotope bundles. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Edward Kim , Stanley Bak , Parasara Sridhar Duggirala

It is a challenging task to train large DNN models on sophisticated GPU platforms with diversified interconnect capabilities. Recently, pipelined training has been proposed as an effective approach for improving device utilization. However,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Shiqing Fan , Yi Rong , Chen Meng , Zongyan Cao , Siyu Wang , Zhen Zheng , Chuan Wu , Guoping Long , Jun Yang , Lixue Xia , Lansong Diao , Xiaoyong Liu , Wei Lin

Reachability analysis is a critical tool for the formal verification of dynamical systems and the synthesis of controllers for them. Due to their computational complexity, many reachability analysis methods are restricted to systems with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Alex Devonport , Mahmoud Khaled , Murat Arcak , Majid Zamani

With the growing model size, deep neural networks (DNN) are increasingly trained over massive GPU accelerators, which demands a proper parallelization plan that transforms a DNN model into fine-grained tasks and then schedules them to GPUs…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Zhiqi Lin , Youshan Miao , Guodong Liu , Xiaoxiang Shi , Quanlu Zhang , Fan Yang , Saeed Maleki , Yi Zhu , Xu Cao , Cheng Li , Mao Yang , Lintao Zhang , Lidong Zhou