SEEV: Synthesis with Efficient Exact Verification for ReLU Neural Barrier Functions

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Main Authors: Zhang, Hongchao, Qin, Zhizhen, Gao, Sicun, Clark, Andrew
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Published: 2024
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author Zhang, Hongchao
Qin, Zhizhen
Gao, Sicun
Clark, Andrew
author_facet Zhang, Hongchao
Qin, Zhizhen
Gao, Sicun
Clark, Andrew
contents Neural Control Barrier Functions (NCBFs) have shown significant promise in enforcing safety constraints on nonlinear autonomous systems. State-of-the-art exact approaches to verifying safety of NCBF-based controllers exploit the piecewise-linear structure of ReLU neural networks, however, such approaches still rely on enumerating all of the activation regions of the network near the safety boundary, thus incurring high computation cost. In this paper, we propose a framework for Synthesis with Efficient Exact Verification (SEEV). Our framework consists of two components, namely (i) an NCBF synthesis algorithm that introduces a novel regularizer to reduce the number of activation regions at the safety boundary, and (ii) a verification algorithm that exploits tight over-approximations of the safety conditions to reduce the cost of verifying each piecewise-linear segment. Our simulations show that SEEV significantly improves verification efficiency while maintaining the CBF quality across various benchmark systems and neural network structures. Our code is available at https://github.com/HongchaoZhang-HZ/SEEV.
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spellingShingle SEEV: Synthesis with Efficient Exact Verification for ReLU Neural Barrier Functions
Zhang, Hongchao
Qin, Zhizhen
Gao, Sicun
Clark, Andrew
Systems and Control
Robotics
Neural Control Barrier Functions (NCBFs) have shown significant promise in enforcing safety constraints on nonlinear autonomous systems. State-of-the-art exact approaches to verifying safety of NCBF-based controllers exploit the piecewise-linear structure of ReLU neural networks, however, such approaches still rely on enumerating all of the activation regions of the network near the safety boundary, thus incurring high computation cost. In this paper, we propose a framework for Synthesis with Efficient Exact Verification (SEEV). Our framework consists of two components, namely (i) an NCBF synthesis algorithm that introduces a novel regularizer to reduce the number of activation regions at the safety boundary, and (ii) a verification algorithm that exploits tight over-approximations of the safety conditions to reduce the cost of verifying each piecewise-linear segment. Our simulations show that SEEV significantly improves verification efficiency while maintaining the CBF quality across various benchmark systems and neural network structures. Our code is available at https://github.com/HongchaoZhang-HZ/SEEV.
title SEEV: Synthesis with Efficient Exact Verification for ReLU Neural Barrier Functions
topic Systems and Control
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20326