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[WLP+21a] Matthew Wicker, Luca Laurenti, Andrea Patane, Nicola Paoletti, Alessandro Abate and Marta Kwiatkowska. Certification of Iterative Predictions in Bayesian Neural Networks. In 37th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI'21). May 2021. [pdf] [bib]
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Notes: Available here; http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10134
Abstract. We consider the problem of computing reach-avoid probabilities for iterative predictions made with Bayesian neural network (BNN) models. Specifically, we leverage bound propagation techniques and backward recursion to compute lower bounds for the probability that trajectories of the BNN model reach a given set of states while avoiding a set of unsafe states. We use the lower bounds in the context of control and reinforcement learning to provide safety certification for given control policies, as well as to synthesize control policies that improve the certification bounds. On a set of benchmarks, we demonstrate that our framework can be employed to certify policies over BNNs predictions for problems of more than 10 dimensions, and to effectively synthesize policies that significantly increase the lower bound on the satisfaction probability.