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most citedAutomatic Perturbation Analysis for Scalable Certified Robustness and Beyond

93 citations · 212 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

Formalize Once, Edit the Rest: Efficient Lean-Based Answer Selection for Math Reasoning

Ji Feng, Zhouxing Shi

With large language models (LLMs) increasingly applied to mathematical reasoning, formal proof assistants such as Lean can be leveraged to verify reasoning outputs with machine-che…

cs.CL2026

Evaluating the Robustness of Proof Autoformalization in Lean 4

Zhengtao Gui, Sheng Yang, Zhouxing Shi

Proof autoformalization aims to translate a mathematical informal proof in natural language into a formal proof in a formal language such as Lean 4. Existing LLM-based models for p…

cs.LG2026

GRLO: Towards Generalizable Reinforcement Learning in Open-Ended Environments from Zero

Shangjian Yin, Yu Fu, Yue Dong +1

Post-training has become a crucial step for unlocking the capabilities of large language models, with reinforcement learning (RL) emerging as a critical paradigm. Recent RL-based p…

cs.LG2026

Talking with Verifiers: Automatic Specification Generation for Neural Network Verification

Yizhak Y. Elboher, Reuven Peleg, Zhouxing Shi +2

Neural network verification tools currently support only a narrow class of specifications, typically expressed as low-level constraints over raw inputs and outputs. This limitation…

cs.AI2026

PII-VisBench: Evaluating Personally Identifiable Information Safety in Vision Language Models Along a Continuum of Visibility

G M Shahariar, Zabir Al Nazi, Md Olid Hasan Bhuiyan +1

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly integrated into privacy-critical domains, yet existing evaluations of personally identifiable information (PII) leakage largely treat…

cs.LG2025

Bridging Efficiency and Safety: Formal Verification of Neural Networks with Early Exits

Yizhak Yisrael Elboher, Avraham Raviv, Amihay Elboher +4

Ensuring the safety and efficiency of AI systems is a central goal of modern research. Formal verification provides guarantees of neural network robustness, while early exits impro…

cs.CL2025

PIKA: Expert-Level Synthetic Datasets for Post-Training Alignment from Scratch

Shangjian Yin, Shining Liang, Wenbiao Ding +4

High-quality instruction data is critical for LLM alignment, yet existing open-source datasets often lack efficiency, requiring hundreds of thousands of examples to approach propri…

cs.LG2024

SoundnessBench: A Soundness Benchmark for Neural Network Verifiers

Xingjian Zhou, Keyi Shen, Andy Xu +4

Neural network (NN) verification aims to formally verify properties of NNs, which is crucial for ensuring the behavior of NN-based models in safety-critical applications. In recent…

cs.LG2024

Certified Training with Branch-and-Bound for Lyapunov-stable Neural Control

Zhouxing Shi, Haoyu Li, Cho-Jui Hsieh +1

We study the problem of learning verifiably Lyapunov-stable neural controllers that provably satisfy the Lyapunov asymptotic stability condition within a region-of-attraction (ROA)…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Neural Network Verification with Branch-and-Bound for General Nonlinearities

Zhouxing Shi, Qirui Jin, Zico Kolter +3

Branch-and-bound (BaB) is among the most effective techniques for neural network (NN) verification. However, existing works on BaB for NN verification have mostly focused on NNs wi…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Lyapunov-stable Neural Control for State and Output Feedback: A Novel Formulation

Lujie Yang, Hongkai Dai, Zhouxing Shi +3

Learning-based neural network (NN) control policies have shown impressive empirical performance in a wide range of tasks in robotics and control. However, formal (Lyapunov) stabili…

cs.CL2024

Defending LLMs against Jailbreaking Attacks via Backtranslation

Yihan Wang, Zhouxing Shi, Andrew Bai +1

Although many large language models (LLMs) have been trained to refuse harmful requests, they are still vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks which rewrite the original prompt to conc…

cs.CL2023

Improving the Generation Quality of Watermarked Large Language Models via Word Importance Scoring

Yuhang Li, Yihan Wang, Zhouxing Shi +1

The strong general capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) bring potential ethical risks if they are unrestrictedly accessible to malicious users. Token-level watermarking ins…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

Red Teaming Language Model Detectors with Language Models

Zhouxing Shi, Yihan Wang, Fan Yin +3

The prevalence and strong capability of large language models (LLMs) present significant safety and ethical risks if exploited by malicious users. To prevent the potentially decept…

cs.LG2023

Effective Robustness against Natural Distribution Shifts for Models with Different Training Data

Zhouxing Shi, Nicholas Carlini, Ananth Balashankar +4

"Effective robustness" measures the extra out-of-distribution (OOD) robustness beyond what can be predicted from the in-distribution (ID) performance. Existing effective robustness…

cs.LG2022★ 8 cited

Efficiently Computing Local Lipschitz Constants of Neural Networks via Bound Propagation

Zhouxing Shi, Yihan Wang, Huan Zhang +2

Lipschitz constants are connected to many properties of neural networks, such as robustness, fairness, and generalization. Existing methods for computing Lipschitz constants either…

cs.LG2022

On the Convergence of Certified Robust Training with Interval Bound Propagation

Yihan Wang, Zhouxing Shi, Quanquan Gu +1

Interval Bound Propagation (IBP) is so far the base of state-of-the-art methods for training neural networks with certifiable robustness guarantees when potential adversarial pertu…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

On the Sensitivity and Stability of Model Interpretations in NLP

Fan Yin, Zhouxing Shi, Cho-Jui Hsieh +1

Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a variety of post-hoc interpretations that aim to uncover how natural language processing (NLP) models make predictions. Despite the su…

cs.LG2021★ 6 cited

Fast Certified Robust Training with Short Warmup

Zhouxing Shi, Yihan Wang, Huan Zhang +2

Recently, bound propagation based certified robust training methods have been proposed for training neural networks with certifiable robustness guarantees. Despite that state-of-th…

cs.CV2021★ 50 cited

On the Adversarial Robustness of Vision Transformers

Rulin Shao, Zhouxing Shi, Jinfeng Yi +2

Following the success in advancing natural language processing and understanding, transformers are expected to bring revolutionary changes to computer vision. This work provides a…

cs.LG2021

Robust Text CAPTCHAs Using Adversarial Examples

Rulin Shao, Zhouxing Shi, Jinfeng Yi +2

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Truing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely used technology to distinguish real users and automated users such as bots. However…

cs.CL2020★ 9 cited

Knowledge-Aided Open-Domain Question Answering

Mantong Zhou, Zhouxing Shi, Minlie Huang +1

Open-domain question answering (QA) aims to find the answer to a question from a large collection of documents.Though many models for single-document machine comprehension have ach…

cs.LG2020★ 93 cited

Automatic Perturbation Analysis for Scalable Certified Robustness and Beyond

Kaidi Xu, Zhouxing Shi, Huan Zhang +6

Linear relaxation based perturbation analysis (LiRPA) for neural networks, which computes provable linear bounds of output neurons given a certain amount of input perturbation, has…

cs.LG2020★ 35 cited

Robustness Verification for Transformers

Zhouxing Shi, Huan Zhang, Kai-Wei Chang +2

Robustness verification that aims to formally certify the prediction behavior of neural networks has become an important tool for understanding model behavior and obtaining safety…