Formal Analysis of Deep Binarized Neural Networks

Formal Analysis of Deep Binarized Neural Networks

Nina Narodytska

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Early Career. Pages 5692-5696. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/811

Understanding properties of deep neural networks is an important challenge in deep learning. Deep learning networks are among the most successful artificial intelligence technologies that is making impact in a variety of practical applications. However, many concerns were raised about `magical' power of these networks. It is disturbing that we are really lacking of understanding of the decision making process behind this technology. Therefore, a natural question is whether we can trust decisions that neural networks make. One way to address this issue is to define properties that we want a neural network to satisfy. Verifying whether a neural network fulfills these properties sheds light on the properties of the function that it represents. In this work, we take the verification approach. Our goal is to design a framework for analysis of properties of neural networks. We start by defining a set of interesting properties to analyze. Then we focus on Binarized Neural Networks that can be represented and analyzed using well-developed means of Boolean Satisfiability and Integer Linear Programming. One of our main results is an exact representation of a binarized neural network as a Boolean formula. We also discuss how we can take advantage of the structure of neural networks in the search procedure.
Keywords:
Constraints and SAT: SAT
Constraints and SAT: SAT: Applications
Machine Learning: Deep Learning