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Beyond the Single Neuron Convex Barrier for Neural Network Certification

1 Dec 2019NeurIPS 2019 12archive 2025-07-28

Gagandeep Singh, Rupanshu Ganvir, Markus Püschel, Martin Vechev

We propose a new parametric framework, called k-ReLU, for computing precise and scalable convex relaxations used to certify neural networks. The key idea is to approximate the output of multiple ReLUs in a layer jointly instead of separately. This joint relaxation captures dependencies between the inputs to different ReLUs in a layer and thus overcomes the convex barrier imposed by the single neuron triangle relaxation and its approximations. The framework is parametric in the number of k ReLUs it considers jointly and can be combined with existing verifiers in order to improve their precision. Our experimental results show that k-ReLU en- ables significantly more precise certification than existing state-of-the-art verifiers while maintaining scalability.

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