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We propose a novel way to integrate control techniques with reinforcement learning (RL) for stability, robustness, and generalization: leveraging contraction theory to realize modularity in neural control, which ensures that combining…

While modern convolutional neural networks achieve outstanding accuracy on many image classification tasks, they are, compared to humans, much more sensitive to image degradation. Here, we describe a variant of Batch Normalization,…

Previous work has shown that the dynamical regime of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) - ranging from oscillatory to chaotic and fixpoint behavior - can be controlled by the global distribution of weights in connection matrices with…

The conjoining of dynamical systems and deep learning has become a topic of great interest. In particular, neural differential equations (NDEs) demonstrate that neural networks and differential equation are two sides of the same coin.…

Recently, there has been an abundance of works on designing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that are robust to adversarial examples. In particular, a central question is which features of DNNs influence adversarial robustness and, therefore,…

Imposing known physical constraints, such as conservation laws, during neural network training introduces an inductive bias that can improve accuracy, reliability, convergence, and data efficiency for modeling physical dynamics. While such…

This paper proposes a novel stable learning theory for recurrent neural networks (RNNs), so-called variational adaptive noise and dropout (VAND). As stabilizing factors for RNNs, noise and dropout on the internal state of RNNs have been…

Quantization of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is a common approach to ease the computational burden involved in the deployment of CNNs, especially on low-resource edge devices. However, fixed-point arithmetic is not natural to the…

Stability guarantees are crucial when ensuring a fully autonomous robot does not take undesirable or potentially harmful actions. Unfortunately, global stability guarantees are hard to provide in dynamical systems learned from data,…

Recent work has extensively shown that randomized perturbations of neural networks can improve robustness to adversarial attacks. The literature is, however, lacking a detailed compare-and-contrast of the latest proposals to understand what…

A key challenge that threatens the widespread use of neural networks in safety-critical applications is their vulnerability to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we study the second-order behavior of continuously differentiable deep neural…

Time-varying non-convex continuous-valued non-linear constrained optimization is a fundamental problem. We study conditions wherein a momentum-like regularising term allow for the tracking of local optima by considering an ordinary…

We propose a new approach to the problem of neural network expressivity, which seeks to characterize how structural properties of a neural network family affect the functions it is able to compute. Our approach is based on an interrelated…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel in many visual tasks but remain susceptible to adversarial attacks-imperceptible perturbations that degrade performance. Prior research reveals that brain-inspired regularizers, derived from neural…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained significant popularity for learning representations of graph-structured data due to their expressive power and scalability. However, despite their success in domains such as social network analysis,…

Training materials through periodic drive allows to endow materials and structures with complex elastic functions. As a result of the driving, the system explores the high dimensional space of structures, ultimately converging to a…

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…

In this paper, we propose neural networks that tackle the problems of stability and field-of-view of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). As an alternative to increasing the network's depth or width to improve performance, we propose…

Owing to flexible architectures of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs), CNNs are successfully used for image denoising. However, they suffer from the following drawbacks: (i) deep network architecture is very difficult to train. (ii)…