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Main Authors: Brosowsky, Mathis, Dünkel, Olaf, Slieter, Daniel, Zöllner, Marius
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Published: 2020
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10258
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author Brosowsky, Mathis
Dünkel, Olaf
Slieter, Daniel
Zöllner, Marius
author_facet Brosowsky, Mathis
Dünkel, Olaf
Slieter, Daniel
Zöllner, Marius
contents Neural networks reach state-of-the-art performance in a variety of learning tasks. However, a lack of understanding the decision making process yields to an appearance as black box. We address this and propose ConstraintNet, a neural network with the capability to constrain the output space in each forward pass via an additional input. The prediction of ConstraintNet is proven within the specified domain. This enables ConstraintNet to exclude unintended or even hazardous outputs explicitly whereas the final prediction is still learned from data. We focus on constraints in form of convex polytopes and show the generalization to further classes of constraints. ConstraintNet can be constructed easily by modifying existing neural network architectures. We highlight that ConstraintNet is end-to-end trainable with no overhead in the forward and backward pass. For illustration purposes, we model ConstraintNet by modifying a CNN and construct constraints for facial landmark prediction tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate the application to a follow object controller for vehicles as a safety-critical application. We submitted an approach and system for the generation of safety-critical outputs of an entity based on ConstraintNet at the German Patent and Trademark Office with the official registration mark DE10 2019 119 739.
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spellingShingle Sample-Specific Output Constraints for Neural Networks
Brosowsky, Mathis
Dünkel, Olaf
Slieter, Daniel
Zöllner, Marius
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Neural networks reach state-of-the-art performance in a variety of learning tasks. However, a lack of understanding the decision making process yields to an appearance as black box. We address this and propose ConstraintNet, a neural network with the capability to constrain the output space in each forward pass via an additional input. The prediction of ConstraintNet is proven within the specified domain. This enables ConstraintNet to exclude unintended or even hazardous outputs explicitly whereas the final prediction is still learned from data. We focus on constraints in form of convex polytopes and show the generalization to further classes of constraints. ConstraintNet can be constructed easily by modifying existing neural network architectures. We highlight that ConstraintNet is end-to-end trainable with no overhead in the forward and backward pass. For illustration purposes, we model ConstraintNet by modifying a CNN and construct constraints for facial landmark prediction tasks. Furthermore, we demonstrate the application to a follow object controller for vehicles as a safety-critical application. We submitted an approach and system for the generation of safety-critical outputs of an entity based on ConstraintNet at the German Patent and Trademark Office with the official registration mark DE10 2019 119 739.
title Sample-Specific Output Constraints for Neural Networks
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10258