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48 results for certified lower bounds

CROWN certifies robustness of neural networks with general activation functions.

problem Certifying robustness of neural networks with general activation functions.
method Bounding activation functions with linear and quadratic surrogates, adaptively selecting surrogates for each neuron.
result Significantly improves certified lower bounds on ReLU networks compared to Fast-Lin.

New method certifies neural network function space norms from point evaluations.

problem Certifying neural network function space norms from point evaluations alone.
method Combining interval arithmetic enclosures, adaptive marking/refinement, and quadrature-based aggregation.
result Certified computation of LpL^p, W1,pW^{1,p}, and W2,pW^{2,p} norms.

This paper assesses Gaussian and Exponential mechanisms for certifying adversarial robustness.

problem Certifying adversarial robustness using randomized smoothing mechanisms.
method Proposes a generic framework to assess the appropriateness of randomized smoothing mechanisms.
result Gaussian mechanism is an appropriate option for certifying both 2\ell_2-norm and \ell_\infty-norm robustness.

Certified algorithms optimize functions with varying costs, providing error bounds.

problem Optimizing functions with varying evaluation costs and error bounds.
method Formalized as a min-max game, proposed certified MFDOO algorithm with cost complexity bound.
result Proposed certified MFDOO algorithm has near-optimal cost complexity for Lipschitz functions.

New framework solves low-rank optimization problems to certifiable optimality.

problem Low-rank optimization problems with certifiable solutions.
method Mixed-Projection Conic Optimization framework using symmetric projection matrices and outer-approximation algorithms.
result Solves low-rank problems to certifiable optimality, outperforming existing methods.

Enhances robustness for time series classification using self-ensemble method.

problem Limited adversarial robustness in time series classification.
method Proposes a self-ensemble method to improve Randomized Smoothing's robustness certification.
result Demonstrates superior robustness compared to baseline approaches.

This paper provides a comprehensive benchmark and taxonomy for certifiably robust DNN defenses.

problem Certifiably robust defenses against adversarial attacks for deep neural networks.
method Taxonomy and benchmark of certifiably robust approaches.
result First comprehensive benchmark of certifiably robust approaches on different datasets.

Paper certifies intersection of minimum-volume confidence sets for multinomial outcomes.

problem Certifying intersection of minimum-volume confidence sets for multinomial outcomes.
method Exploits likelihood ordering to induce halfspace constraints, enabling adaptive geometric partitioning and computable bounds on p-values.
result Efficient and provably sound algorithm for certifying intersection, disjointness, or indeterminate result.

Paper provides efficient robustness certificates for neural networks.

problem Ensuring neural networks are robust against adversarial attacks.
method Two-step approach: 1) Efficient convex optimization for robustness certificates with bounded Hessian eigenvalues, 2) Curvature-based regularization during training.
result Significantly higher certified robust accuracy achieved compared to existing methods.

CNN-Cert efficiently certifies robustness of CNNs, achieving significant speed-ups.

problem Verifying robustness of neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks, against adversarial perturbations.
method General and efficient framework that handles various architectures and activation functions, achieving up to 17 and 11 times speed-up compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.
result Achieves similar or better verification bounds compared to state-of-the-art algorithms while being significantly faster.

PROVEN extends neural network robustness verification to probabilistic settings.

problem Quantifying robustness of neural networks under probabilistic noise distributions.
method PROVEN: Probabilistic Verification of Neural Networks (PROVEN) with statistical guarantees.
result PROVEN achieves up to 75% improvement in robustness certification compared to worst-case methods.

High-dimensional smoothing techniques struggle with robustness guarantees against various attacks.

problem Challenges in extending randomized smoothing to other attack models in high-dimensional space.
method Analysis of isotropic and generalized Gaussian smoothing distributions, proving bounds on certified robustness radii.
result Certifiable robustness radii decrease as $O(1/d^{ rac{1}{2} - rac{1}{p}})$ with dimension dd for p>2p > 2.

Deep Partition Aggregation defends against poisoning attacks with provable certificates.

problem Adversarial poisoning attacks corrupt classifier test-time behavior.
method Deep Partition Aggregation (DPA) is an ensemble method using hash partitions and base models trained on these partitions.
result DPA can certify >= 50% of test images against over 500 poison image insertions on MNIST, and nine insertions on CIFAR-10.

Efficient local Lipschitz bounds improve neural network robustness.

problem Certifying robustness of neural networks is challenging and often leads to over-regularization.
method Proposes an efficient trainable local Lipschitz upper bound by considering activation functions and weight matrices.
result Consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in clean and certified accuracy on various datasets.

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.

Study certifies missed relevant items in candidate generation with audit labels.

problem Certify missed relevant items in candidate generation with audit labels.
method Characterizes label complexity, develops exact finite-sample toolkit.
result Excluded-pool auditing is minimax rate-optimal for missed-mass certification.

New method certifies neural network robustness under random input noise.

problem Certifying neural network robustness against random input noise.
method Chance-constrained optimization problem reformulated with input-output samples, convex conditions developed.
result Proposed method certifies robustness against various input noise regimes over larger uncertainty regions.

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.

Proposes POPQORN to quantify robustness of RNNs, including LSTMs and GRUs.

problem Vulnerability to adversarial attacks in recurrent neural networks.
method Develops POPQORN, a general algorithm to quantify robustness of RNNs.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on different network architectures and shows insights from robustness quantification on individual steps.

Proves the existence of accurate, certifiably robust neural networks.

problem Training neural networks to be robust against adversarial attacks.
method Proves the existence of networks that approximate continuous functions and ensure robustness through interval-bound propagation.
result Proves the existence of accurate, interval-certified ReLU networks.

This work improves certifiably robust models by distilling knowledge from adversarially robust teachers.

problem Certifiably robust models suffer from poor standard performance.
method Knowledge distillation from adversarially robust teachers to improve standard performance.
result Distillation from adversarially robust teachers consistently improves certified training performance.

This work improves deep reinforcement learning robustness to adversarial state uncertainty.

problem Robustness of deep reinforcement learning to adversarial state uncertainty.
method Certified adversarial robustness techniques are applied to deep reinforcement learning algorithms to compute guaranteed lower bounds on state-action values.
result The approach increases robustness to noise and adversaries in pedestrian collision avoidance and classic control tasks.

Enhances scenario approach for certifying design properties post-design.

problem Certifying additional useful properties in designs not considered during the design phase.
method Two-level framework of appropriateness: baseline and post-design. Distribution-free upper bounds on risk derived.
result Distribution-free upper bounds on the risk of failing to meet post-design appropriateness.

This study tightens bounds on how GD and SGD generalize in smooth convex optimization problems.

problem Understanding how GD and SGD generalize in smooth stochastic convex optimization problems.
method Provided tight excess risk lower bounds for GD and SGD under different conditions.
result Lower bounds suggest overfitting occurs and gaps remain in some cases.

New method for certified unlearning reduces noise injection.

problem Achieving formal unlearning guarantees with adaptive noise calibration.
method Adaptive per-instance noise calibration based on individual data point sensitivities.
result Derivation of high-probability per-instance sensitivity bounds for ridge regression.

New findings show some designs can't be robustly recovered in linear regression.

problem Robust linear regression with adversarial corruption.
method Investigated well-spreadness of design matrices for robust recovery.
result Certified well-spreadness of random matrices efficiently, but hardness for small observations.

Study growth patterns in random networks using i.i.d. perturbations.

problem Understanding the growth of affine regions in random piecewise-linear networks.
method Analyzes a random compositional model with i.i.d. perturbations of the tent map, proving submultiplicative pressure and using finite-state defect process for upper-tail lower bounds.
result Proves the existence of a submultiplicative pressure for \(N_n\) and gives exponential upper bounds for \(n^{-1}\log N_n\).

New approach to certifiably robust neural networks using Boolean function perspective.

problem Lack of principled understanding and certified robustness for \ell_\infty perturbations.
method New perspective on Boolean functions, deriving impossibility results, and developing a unified Lipschitz network.
result Unified Lipschitz network that bypasses expressive power limitations and achieves better certified robustness.

We certify federated learning model performance under meta-distribution shifts.

problem Certifying model performance on unseen networks with heterogeneous distributions.
method Derive worst-case uniform guarantees for federated learning model's average loss and risk CDF.
result Asymptotically minimax optimal and privacy-preserving certification.

New method certifies images against transformations like rotations and translations.

problem Certifying robustness of images against transformations like rotations and translations.
method Randomized smoothing with three different kinds of defenses.
result Individual certificates can be obtained via statistical error bounds or efficient online inverse computation.