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20132026
most citedNon-Euclidean Contraction Theory for Robust Nonlinear Stability

52 citations · 98 across the 37 of their papers we have counts for

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45 papers

eess.SY2026

Data-Driven Compositional Safety Verification of Interconnected Monotone Systems

Amirreza Alavi, Majid Zamani, Saber Jafarpour

This paper introduces a sample-efficient compositional method for formal safety verification of interconnected monotone systems without requiring explicit models of the local subsy…

eess.SY2026

Reachability Analysis for Power Systems with Heterogeneous Resources via Jordan Transformation

Damola Ajeyemi, Antonin Colot, Sairaj Dhople +2

This paper develops a computationally efficient framework for reachability analysis of transmission-level power system dynamics with synchronous generators, grid-forming and grid-f…

eess.SY2026

Trajectory-based Safety of Monotone Systems: Verification and Control Synthesis

Felipe Galarza-Jimenez, Majid Zamani, Saber Jafarpour

This paper presents a novel data-driven framework for the robust safety verification and safe control synthesis of unknown monotone discrete-time systems. While existing data-drive…

eess.SY2025

Monotone Neural Barrier Certificates

Saber Jafarpour, Alireza Nadali, Ashutosh Trivedi +1

This report presents a neurosymbolic framework for safety verification and control synthesis in high-dimensional monotone dynamical systems without relying on explicit models or co…

eess.SY2025

Neural Network-assisted Interval Reachability for Systems with Control Barrier Function-Based Safe Controllers

Damola Ajeyemi, Saber Jafarpour, Emiliano Dall'Anese

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have been widely utilized in the design of optimization-based controllers and filters for dynamical systems to ensure forward invariance of a given…

eess.SY2025

Safety Verification of Nonlinear Stochastic Systems via Probabilistic Tube

Zishun Liu, Saber Jafarpour, Yongxin Chen

We address the problem of safety verification for nonlinear stochastic systems, specifically the task of certifying that system trajectories remain within a safe set with high prob…

eess.SY2025

Geometric Reachability for Attitude Control Systems via Contraction Theory

Chencheng Xu, Saber Jafarpour, Chengcheng Zhao +2

In this paper, we present a geometric framework for the reachability analysis of attitude control systems. We model the attitude dynamics on the product manifold $\mathrm{SO}(3) \t…

eess.SY2024

Safety Verification of Stochastic Systems: A Set-Erosion Approach

Zishun Liu, Saber Jafarpour, Yongxin Chen

We study the safety verification problem for discrete-time stochastic systems. We propose an approach for safety verification termed set-erosion strategy that verifies the safety o…

eess.SY2024

Probabilistic Reachability of Discrete-Time Nonlinear Stochastic Systems

Zishun Liu, Saber Jafarpour, Yongxin Chen

In this paper we study the reachability problem for discrete-time nonlinear stochastic systems. Our goal is to present a unified framework for calculating the probabilistic reachab…

eess.SY2024

Probabilistic Reachability Analysis of Stochastic Control Systems

Saber Jafarpour, Zishun Liu, Yongxin Chen

We address the reachability problem for continuous-time stochastic dynamic systems. Our objective is to present a unified framework that characterizes the reachable set of a dynami…

eess.SY2024

: A Parallelizable and Differentiable Toolbox for Interval Analysis and Mixed Monotone Reachability in JAX

Akash Harapanahalli, Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

We present an implementation of interval analysis and mixed monotone interval reachability analysis as function transforms in Python, fully composable with the computational framew…

eess.SY2023

A Contracting Dynamical System Perspective toward Interval Markov Decision Processes

Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

Interval Markov decision processes are a class of Markov models where the transition probabilities between the states belong to intervals. In this paper, we study the problem of ef…

eess.SY2023★ 5 cited

Forward Invariance in Neural Network Controlled Systems

Akash Harapanahalli, Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

We present a framework based on interval analysis and monotone systems theory to certify and search for forward invariant sets in nonlinear systems with neural network controllers.…

eess.SY2023

Efficient Interaction-Aware Interval Analysis of Neural Network Feedback Loops

Saber Jafarpour, Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

In this paper, we propose a computationally efficient framework for interval reachability of systems with neural network controllers. Our approach leverages inclusion functions for…

eess.SY2023★ 2 cited

A Toolbox for Fast Interval Arithmetic in numpy with an Application to Formal Verification of Neural Network Controlled Systems

Akash Harapanahalli, Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

In this paper, we present a toolbox for interval analysis in numpy, with an application to formal verification of neural network controlled systems. Using the notion of natural inc…

eess.SY2023★ 5 cited

Contraction-Guided Adaptive Partitioning for Reachability Analysis of Neural Network Controlled Systems

Akash Harapanahalli, Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

In this paper, we present a contraction-guided adaptive partitioning algorithm for improving interval-valued robust reachable set estimates in a nonlinear feedback loop with a neur…

math.OC2023★ 1 cited

Non-Euclidean Monotone Operator Theory and Applications

Alexander Davydov, Saber Jafarpour, Anton V. Proskurnikov +1

While monotone operator theory is often studied on Hilbert spaces, many interesting problems in machine learning and optimization arise naturally in finite-dimensional vector space…

eess.SY2023★ 1 cited

Interval Reachability of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Neural Network Controllers

Saber Jafarpour, Akash Harapanahalli, Samuel Coogan

This paper proposes a computationally efficient framework, based on interval analysis, for rigorous verification of nonlinear continuous-time dynamical systems with neural network…

math.OC2022

Monotonicity and Contraction on Polyhedral Cones

Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

In this note, we study monotone dynamical systems with respect to polyhedral cones. Using the half-space representation and the vertex representation, we propose three equivalent c…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Robust Training and Verification of Implicit Neural Networks: A Non-Euclidean Contractive Approach

Saber Jafarpour, Alexander Davydov, Matthew Abate +2

This paper proposes a theoretical and computational framework for training and robustness verification of implicit neural networks based upon non-Euclidean contraction theory. The…

math.OC2022

Network Critical Slowing Down: Data-Driven Detection of Critical Transitions in Nonlinear Networks

Mohammad Pirani, Saber Jafarpour

In a Nature article, Scheffer et al. presented a novel data-driven framework to predict critical transitions in complex systems. These transitions, which may stem from failures, de…

math.OC2022★ 2 cited

Non-Euclidean Monotone Operator Theory with Applications to Recurrent Neural Networks

Alexander Davydov, Saber Jafarpour, Anton V. Proskurnikov +1

We provide a novel transcription of monotone operator theory to the non-Euclidean finite-dimensional spaces and . We first establish properties of mappings…

cs.LG2022

Comparative Analysis of Interval Reachability for Robust Implicit and Feedforward Neural Networks

Alexander Davydov, Saber Jafarpour, Matthew Abate +2

We use interval reachability analysis to obtain robustness guarantees for implicit neural networks (INNs). INNs are a class of implicit learning models that use implicit equations…

math.OC2022

Resilience of Input Metering in Dynamic Flow Networks

Saber Jafarpour, Samuel Coogan

In this paper, we study robustness of input metering policies in dynamic flow networks in the presence of transient disturbances and attacks. We consider a compartmental model for…