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48 results for Symbolic Interval Propagation

Recent breakthroughs in defenses against adversarial examples, like adversarial training, make the neural networks robust against various classes of attackers (e.g., first-order gradient-based attacks). However, it is an open question whether the adversarially trained networks are truly robust under unknown attacks. In…

2019-06-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Global propagator for massless Dirac operator defined and analyzed.

problem Analyzing the massless Dirac operator on 3-manifolds.
method Constructing propagator as sum of oscillatory integrals, providing global definitions and small time expansions.
result Explicit calculation of propagators' symbols and coefficients in eigenvalue counting functions.

Paper closes neural-symbolic learning loop with grammar model and back-search algorithm.

problem Slow convergence in neural-symbolic learning due to error propagation issues.
method Introduces grammar model as symbolic prior and back-search algorithm for efficient error propagation.
result Significantly outperforms RL methods in performance, converging speed, and data efficiency.

Accelerates DNN robustness verification with target labels.

problem Improving the robustness of deep neural networks against adversarial attacks.
method Guiding robustness verification with target labels, reducing search space and using symbolic interval propagation and linear relaxation.
result Significantly improves DNN verification speed by 36X, especially when perturbation distance is reasonable.

Arguments in favor of injecting symbolic knowledge into neural architectures abound. When done right, constraining a sub-symbolic model can substantially improve its performance and sample complexity and prevent it from predicting invalid configurations. Focusing on deep probabilistic (logical) graphical models -- i.e.…

2019-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the propagator of the wave equation on a closed Riemannian manifold MM. We propose a geometric approach to the construction of the propagator as a single oscillatory integral global both in space and in time with a distinguished complex-valued phase function. This enables us to provide a global invariant defi…

2019-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Extends Fisher's Discriminant Analysis for interval-valued data.

problem Classifying entities represented by intervals and histograms.
method Adapts Fisher's Discriminant Analysis using Moore's interval arithmetic and Mallows' distance.
result Discriminant directions for interval-valued data are numerically maximized.

Shape-constrained symbolic regression improves model extrapolation with prior knowledge.

problem Improving model extrapolation with prior knowledge in symbolic regression.
method Shape-constrained symbolic regression using evolutionary algorithms with interval arithmetic.
result Models with shape constraints have improved extrapolation but lower accuracy on test sets.

IBP-R improves verified adversarial robustness with simple, effective interval bound propagation.

problem Improving verifiability of adversarially trained networks.
method Coupling adversarial attacks with interval bound propagation for minimized verification gap.
result State-of-the-art verified robustness-accuracy trade-offs for small perturbations on CIFAR-10.

Symbolic data analysis (SDA) is an emerging area of statistics concerned with understanding and modelling data that takes distributional form (i.e. symbols), such as random lists, intervals and histograms. It was developed under the premise that the statistical unit of interest is the symbol, and that inference is requ…

2018-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We observe that the line bundle associated to the tame symbol of two invertible holomorphic functions also carries a fairly canonical hermitian metric, hence it represents a class in a Hermitian holomorphic Deligne cohomology group. We put forward an alternative definition of hermitian holomorphic structure on a gerbe …

2003-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified neural network framework for context-aware Gaussian overbounds in uncertainty propagation.

problem Uncertainty quantification in safety-critical settings requires conservative bounds, but existing methods often fail to compose and are overly conservative.
method Proposes a learning framework that trains neural networks to produce context-aware Gaussian overbounds with provable conservatism.
result The method yields tighter bounds while maintaining conservatism on the enforced grid and in experiments.

Training Deep Neural Networks that are robust to norm bounded adversarial attacks remains an elusive problem. While exact and inexact verification-based methods are generally too expensive to train large networks, it was demonstrated that bounded input intervals can be inexpensively propagated from a layer to another t…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Training neural networks to be certifiably robust is critical to ensure their safety against adversarial attacks. However, it is currently very difficult to train a neural network that is both accurate and certifiably robust. In this work we take a step towards addressing this challenge. We prove that for every continu…

2019-09-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian inference engines improve density estimation accuracy and scalability.

problem Constructing accurate and scalable probability density functions.
method Bayesian inference engines (no-U-turn sampling and expectation propagation) with binning strategy.
result Density estimates have excellent comparative performance and scale well to large sample sizes.

This paper improves conformal prediction for robust interval estimation under distribution shifts.

problem Robustness of conformal prediction under distribution shifts.
method Modeling distribution shifts using Levy-Prokhorov (LP) ambiguity sets, which capture both local and global perturbations.
result Constructs robust conformal prediction intervals that remain valid under distribution shifts.

This work provides uncertainty intervals for semantic latent variables in disentangled latent spaces.

problem Challenges in providing meaningful uncertainty quantification for semantic information in disentangled latent spaces.
method Uses quantile regression to output heuristic uncertainty intervals, calibrates these intervals to contain true latent values, and propagates them through the generator.
result Reliably communicates semantically meaningful, principled, and instance-adaptive uncertainty in image super-resolution and image completion.

Two-step conformal prediction method for adaptive bounding box uncertainties in multi-object detection.

problem Quantifying predictive uncertainty for multi-object detection in safety-critical applications.
method Developed a two-step conformal prediction approach to propagate uncertainty in predicted class labels into bounding box uncertainties, ensuring coverage for incorrectly classified objects.
result Desired coverage levels are satisfied with practically tight predictive uncertainty intervals on real-world datasets.

Paper aims to ensure reliable detection of out-of-distribution data with certifiable worst-case guarantees.

problem Deep neural networks are overconfident with OOD inputs, posing safety risks.
method Enforces low confidence and bounds in an ll_\infty-ball around OOD points using interval bound propagation (IBP).
result Certifiable worst-case guarantees for OOD detection are possible without significant loss in accuracy.

Paper proposes faster certified robust training methods with short warmup.

problem Certified robust training methods require long warmup schedules, making training costly.
method Proposes three improvements: new weight initialization, BN, and regularization.
result Achieves 65.03% verified error on CIFAR-10 and 82.36% on TinyImageNet with short warmup.

CASCADE improves uncertainty communication in Parkinson's disease medication management.

problem Uncertainty in clinical decision-making for Parkinson's disease patients.
method CASCADE uses a novel conformal prediction framework to adaptively scale prediction intervals based on classification uncertainty.
result CASCADE produces more efficient and robust prediction intervals for Parkinson's disease patients.

Bayesian methods improve group testing for identifying infected patients.

problem Identifying infected patients from group testing results with false positives.
method Bayesian inference and belief propagation algorithm, combined with expectation-maximization method.
result True-positive rate improved by considering credible intervals.

We describe dimensionally constrained symbolic regression which has been developed for mass measurement in certain classes of events in high-energy physics (HEP). With symbolic regression, we can derive equations that are well known in HEP. However, in problems with large number of variables, we find that by constraini…

2011-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

For an arbitrary Riemannian manifold XX and Hermitian vector bundles EE and FF over XX we define the notion of the normal symbol of a pseudodifferential operator PP from EE to FF. The normal symbol of PP is a certain smooth function from the cotangent bundle TXT^*X to the homomorphism bundle Hom(E,F)Hom (E,F) and dep…

1996-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Based on the ideas of Optimal Control, we introduce the new basic characteristic of a bracket generating distribution, the Jacobi symbol. In contrast to the classical Tanaka symbol, the set of Jacobi symbols is discrete and classifiable. We give an explicit and unified algebraic procedure for the construction of the ca…

2016-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗