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It is well-known that standard neural networks, even with a high classification accuracy, are vulnerable to small $\ell_\infty$-norm bounded adversarial perturbations. Although many attempts have been made, most previous works either can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Bohang Zhang , Tianle Cai , Zhou Lu , Di He , Liwei Wang

The monotonic dependence of the outputs of a neural network on some of its inputs is a crucial inductive bias in many scenarios where domain knowledge dictates such behavior. This is especially important for interpretability and fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Ouail Kitouni , Niklas Nolte , Michael Williams

The robustness of neural networks against input perturbations with bounded magnitude represents a serious concern in the deployment of deep learning models in safety-critical systems. Recently, the scientific community has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Bernd Prach , Fabio Brau , Giorgio Buttazzo , Christoph H. Lampert

Deep neural networks are notorious for being sensitive to small well-chosen perturbations, and estimating the regularity of such architectures is of utmost importance for safe and robust practical applications. In this paper, we investigate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-28 Kevin Scaman , Aladin Virmaux

Certifiable robustness gives the guarantee that small perturbations around an input to a classifier will not change the prediction. There are two approaches to provide certifiable robustness to adversarial examples: a) explicitly training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Meiyu Zhong , Ravi Tandon

Implicit neural networks, a.k.a., deep equilibrium networks, are a class of implicit-depth learning models where function evaluation is performed by solving a fixed point equation. They generalize classic feedforward models and are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Saber Jafarpour , Alexander Davydov , Anton V. Proskurnikov , Francesco Bullo

This paper addresses the critical challenge of developing data-driven certificates for the stability and safety of unmodeled dynamical systems by leveraging a tree data structure and an upper bound of the system's Lipschitz constant.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Amy K. Strong , Ali Kashani , Claus Danielson , Leila J. Bridgeman

The Lipschitz constant of neural networks has been established as a key quantity to enforce the robustness to adversarial examples. In this paper, we tackle the problem of building $1$-Lipschitz Neural Networks. By studying Residual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Laurent Meunier , Blaise Delattre , Alexandre Araujo , Alexandre Allauzen

Despite recent success, state-of-the-art learning-based models remain highly vulnerable to input changes such as adversarial examples. In order to obtain certifiable robustness against such perturbations, recent work considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Max Losch , David Stutz , Bernt Schiele , Mario Fritz

Despite the large success of deep neural networks (DNN) in recent years, most neural networks still lack mathematical guarantees in terms of stability. For instance, DNNs are vulnerable to small or even imperceptible input perturbations, so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Leon Bungert , René Raab , Tim Roith , Leo Schwinn , Daniel Tenbrinck

High sensitivity of neural networks against malicious perturbations on inputs causes security concerns. To take a steady step towards robust classifiers, we aim to create neural network models provably defended from perturbations. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yusuke Tsuzuku , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

The robustness of neural networks to adversarial examples has received great attention due to security implications. Despite various attack approaches to crafting visually imperceptible adversarial examples, little has been developed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-01 Tsui-Wei Weng , Huan Zhang , Pin-Yu Chen , Jinfeng Yi , Dong Su , Yupeng Gao , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Luca Daniel

Lipschitz continuity characterizes the worst-case sensitivity of neural networks to small input perturbations; yet its dynamics (i.e. temporal evolution) during training remains under-explored. We present a rigorous mathematical framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Róisín Luo , James McDermott , Christian Gagné , Qiang Sun , Colm O'Riordan

Tight estimation of the Lipschitz constant for deep neural networks (DNNs) is useful in many applications ranging from robustness certification of classifiers to stability analysis of closed-loop systems with reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Mahyar Fazlyab , Alexander Robey , Hamed Hassani , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

This paper is devoted to the estimation of the Lipschitz constant of general neural network architectures using semidefinite programming. For this purpose, we interpret neural networks as time-varying dynamical systems, where the $k$-th…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Patricia Pauli , Dennis Gramlich , Frank Allgöwer

We investigate the effect of explicitly enforcing the Lipschitz continuity of neural networks with respect to their inputs. To this end, we provide a simple technique for computing an upper bound to the Lipschitz constant---for multiple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Henry Gouk , Eibe Frank , Bernhard Pfahringer , Michael J. Cree

A domain-theoretic framework is presented for validated robustness analysis of neural networks. First, global robustness of a general class of networks is analyzed. Then, using the fact that Edalat's domain-theoretic L-derivative coincides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Can Zhou , Razin A. Shaikh , Yiran Li , Amin Farjudian

Lipschitz constants are connected to many properties of neural networks, such as robustness, fairness, and generalization. Existing methods for computing Lipschitz constants either produce relatively loose upper bounds or are limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Zhouxing Shi , Yihan Wang , Huan Zhang , Zico Kolter , Cho-Jui Hsieh

The ``differentiability gap'' presents a primary bottleneck in Earth system deep learning: since models cannot be trained directly on non-differentiable scientific metrics and must rely on smooth proxies (e.g., MSE), they often fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Filippo Quarenghi , Ryan Cotsakis , Tom Beucler

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