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most citedShieldNN: A Provably Safe NN Filter for Unsafe NN Controllers

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13 papers

cs.LG2025

Extracting Forward Invariant Sets from Neural Network-Based Control Barrier Functions

Goli Vaisi, James Ferlez, Yasser Shoukry

Training Neural Networks (NNs) to serve as Barrier Functions (BFs) is a popular way to improve the safety of autonomous dynamical systems. Despite significant practical success, th…

eess.SY2023

SEO: Safety-Aware Energy Optimization Framework for Multi-Sensor Neural Controllers at the Edge

Mohanad Odema, James Ferlez, Yasser Shoukry +1

Runtime energy management has become quintessential for multi-sensor autonomous systems at the edge for achieving high performance given the platform constraints. Typical for such…

eess.SY2023

EnergyShield: Provably-Safe Offloading of Neural Network Controllers for Energy Efficiency

Mohanad Odema, James Ferlez, Goli Vaisi +2

To mitigate the high energy demand of Neural Network (NN) based Autonomous Driving Systems (ADSs), we consider the problem of offloading NN controllers from the ADS to nearby edge-…

cs.LG2022

Polynomial-Time Reachability for LTI Systems with Two-Level Lattice Neural Network Controllers

James Ferlez, Yasser Shoukry

In this paper, we consider the computational complexity of bounding the reachable set of a Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) system controlled by a Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) Two-Level…

cs.LG2021

Fast BATLLNN: Fast Box Analysis of Two-Level Lattice Neural Networks

James Ferlez, Haitham Khedr, Yasser Shoukry

In this paper, we present the tool Fast Box Analysis of Two-Level Lattice Neural Networks (Fast BATLLNN) as a fast verifier of box-like output constraints for Two-Level Lattice (TL…

cs.LG2021

Assured Neural Network Architectures for Control and Identification of Nonlinear Systems

James Ferlez, Yasser Shoukry

In this paper, we consider the problem of automatically designing a Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) Neural Network (NN) architecture (number of layers and number of neurons per layer)…