Mar 30, 2020

(CANCELED) Robustness guarantees for neural networks

Date: March 30, 2020 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Speaker: Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University
Location: Raiffeisen Lecture Hall, Central Building

Deep neural networks have achieved impressive experimental results in image classification, but can surprisingly be unstable with respect to adversarial perturbations, that is, minimal changes to the input image that cause the network to misclassify it. With potential applications including perception modules and end-to-end controllers for self-driving cars, this raises concerns about their safety. This lecture will describe progress with developing techniques to establish safety and probabilistic safety guarantees for deep neural networks, giving an overview of methods based on games, global optimisation and statistical approximation.