The Fourth International Verification of Neural Networks Competition (VNN-COMP 2023): Summary and Results
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This report summarizes the 4th International Verification of Neural Networks Competition (VNN-COMP 2023), held as a part of the 6th Workshop on Formal Methods for ML-Enabled Autonomous Systems (FoMLAS), that was collocated with the 35th International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV). VNN-COMP is held annually to facilitate the fair and objective comparison of state-of-the-art neural network verification tools, encourage the standardization of tool interfaces, and bring together the neural network verification community. To this end, standardized formats for networks (ONNX) and specification (VNN-LIB) were defined, tools were evaluated on equal-cost hardware (using an automatic evaluation pipeline based on AWS instances), and tool parameters were chosen by the participants before the final test sets were made public. In the 2023 iteration, 7 teams participated on a diverse set of 10 scored and 4 unscored benchmarks. This report summarizes the rules, benchmarks, participating tools, results, and lessons learned from this iteration of this competition.
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- 2024Marabou 2.0: A Versatile Formal Analyzer of Neural Networkscited by 81
- 2024Neural Network Verification with Branch-and-Bound for General Nonlinearitiescited by 47
- 2024Scalable Neural Network Verification with Branch-and-bound Inferred Cutting Planescited by 33
- 2024Human vs. Machine: Behavioral Differences Between Expert Humans and Language Models in Wargame Simulationscited by 20
- 2024Formally Verifying Deep Reinforcement Learning Controllers with Lyapunov Barrier Certificatescited by 15
- 2025Neural Network Verification is a Programming Language Challengecited by 12
- 2024Detecting Brittle Decisions for Free: Leveraging Margin Consistency in Deep Robust Classifierscited by 10
- 2024Neural Network Verification with PyRATcited by 9
- 2025Clip-and-Verify: Linear Constraint-Driven Domain Clipping for Accelerating Neural Network Verificationcited by 9
- 2024Formal Verification of Graph Convolutional Networks with Uncertain Node Features and Uncertain Graph Structurecited by 8
- 2024Provably Safe Neural Network Controllers via Differential Dynamic Logiccited by 7
- 2024DeepCDCL: An CDCL-based Neural Network Verification Frameworkcited by 6
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- 2024SoundnessBench: A Soundness Benchmark for Neural Network Verifierscited by 5
- 2024Certifying Robustness of Learning-Based Keypoint Detection and Pose Estimation Methodscited by 4
- 2025Advancing Neural Network Verification through Hierarchical Safety Abstract Interpretationcited by 4
- 2025Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Securitycited by 4
- 2024Learning Minimal Neural Specificationscited by 3
- 2026FAME: Formal Abstract Minimal Explanation for Neural Networkscited by 3
- 2024Achieving the Tightest Relaxation of Sigmoids for Formal Verificationcited by 2
- 2024Verification of Neural Networks against Convolutional Perturbations via Parameterised Kernelscited by 2
- 2024Robust width: A lightweight and certifiable adversarial defensecited by 1
- 2024VeriFlow: Modeling Distributions for Neural Network Verificationcited by 1
- 2024SMLE: Safe Machine Learning via Embedded Overapproximationcited by 1
- 2025A General Framework for Property-Driven Machine Learningcited by 1
- 2024Training Safe Neural Networks with Global SDP Boundscited by 0
- 2024Creating a Formally Verified Neural Network for Autonomous Navigation: An Experience Reportcited by 0
- 2025BoxRL-NNV: Boxed Refinement of Latin Hypercube Samples for Neural Network Verificationcited by 0
- 2025Language Models That Walk the Talk: A Framework for Formal Fairness Certificatescited by 0
- 2025The CAISAR Platform: Extending the Reach of Machine Learning Specification and Verificationcited by 0
- 2026From Decoupled to Coupled: Robustness Verification for Learning-based Keypoint Detection with Joint Specificationscited by 0
- 2026Analyzing Symbolic Properties for DRL Agents in Systems and Networkingcited by 0
- 2026Lipschitz Optimization for Formal Verification of Homographiescited by 0
- 2026Scaling Neural Network Verification with Tensor Parallelism and Fully Sharded Data Parallelismcited by 0
- 2026Shifting-based Optimizable Linear Relaxations for General Activation Functionscited by 0
- 2026A Survey on the Verification of Reinforcement Learning Policiescited by 0
- 2026Learning Lookahead Lemmas for Neural Network Verificationcited by 0
- 2026NNV3: Expanding Neural Network Verification to New Architectures and Domainscited by 0
- 2026Reachability-Based Formal Verification of Graph Neural Networks with Node and Edge Featurescited by 0
- 2026Reachability-Based Formal Verification of Graph Neural Networks with Node and Edge Features24 Sep 2026
- 2026NNV3: Expanding Neural Network Verification to New Architectures and Domains24 Sep 2026
- 2026Learning Lookahead Lemmas for Neural Network Verification31 Jul 2026
- 2026Shifting-based Optimizable Linear Relaxations for General Activation Functions18 Jun 2026
- 2026Scaling Neural Network Verification with Tensor Parallelism and Fully Sharded Data Parallelism8 Jun 2026
- 2026Lipschitz Optimization for Formal Verification of Homographies22 May 2026
- 2026A Survey on the Verification of Reinforcement Learning Policies14 May 2026
- 2026Analyzing Symbolic Properties for DRL Agents in Systems and Networking6 Apr 2026
- 2026FAME: Formal Abstract Minimal Explanation for Neural Networks11 Mar 2026
- 2026From Decoupled to Coupled: Robustness Verification for Learning-based Keypoint Detection with Joint Specifications5 Mar 2026
- 2025Clip-and-Verify: Linear Constraint-Driven Domain Clipping for Accelerating Neural Network Verification11 Dec 2025
- 2025Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security16 Jun 2025
26 more
- 2025The CAISAR Platform: Extending the Reach of Machine Learning Specification and Verification10 Jun 2025
- 2025Language Models That Walk the Talk: A Framework for Formal Fairness Certificates19 May 2025
- 2025Advancing Neural Network Verification through Hierarchical Safety Abstract Interpretation8 May 2025
- 2025A General Framework for Property-Driven Machine Learning1 May 2025
- 2025BoxRL-NNV: Boxed Refinement of Latin Hypercube Samples for Neural Network Verification25 Feb 2025
- 2025Neural Network Verification is a Programming Language Challenge10 Jan 2025
- 2024Scalable Neural Network Verification with Branch-and-bound Inferred Cutting Planes31 Dec 2024
- 2024SoundnessBench: A Soundness Benchmark for Neural Network Verifiers4 Dec 2024
- 2024Creating a Formally Verified Neural Network for Autonomous Navigation: An Experience Report21 Nov 2024
- 2024Verification of Neural Networks against Convolutional Perturbations via Parameterised Kernels7 Nov 2024
- 2024Neural Network Verification with PyRAT31 Oct 2024
- 2024SMLE: Safe Machine Learning via Embedded Overapproximation30 Sep 2024
- 2024Training Safe Neural Networks with Global SDP Bounds15 Sep 2024
- 2024Achieving the Tightest Relaxation of Sigmoids for Formal Verification20 Aug 2024
- 2024Certifying Robustness of Learning-Based Keypoint Detection and Pose Estimation Methods31 Jul 2024
- 2024Detecting Brittle Decisions for Free: Leveraging Margin Consistency in Deep Robust Classifiers26 Jun 2024
- 2024VeriFlow: Modeling Distributions for Neural Network Verification20 Jun 2024
- 2024Neural Network Verification with Branch-and-Bound for General Nonlinearities31 May 2024
- 2024Robust width: A lightweight and certifiable adversarial defense24 May 2024
- 2024Formally Verifying Deep Reinforcement Learning Controllers with Lyapunov Barrier Certificates22 May 2024
- 2024Formal Verification of Graph Convolutional Networks with Uncertain Node Features and Uncertain Graph Structure23 Apr 2024
- 2024Learning Minimal Neural Specifications6 Apr 2024
- 2024DeepCDCL: An CDCL-based Neural Network Verification Framework12 Mar 2024
- 2024Human vs. Machine: Behavioral Differences Between Expert Humans and Language Models in Wargame Simulations6 Mar 2024
- 2024Provably Safe Neural Network Controllers via Differential Dynamic Logic16 Feb 2024
- 2024Marabou 2.0: A Versatile Formal Analyzer of Neural Networks25 Jan 2024
- 2024Marabou 2.0: A Versatile Formal Analyzer of Neural Networkscited by 81
- 2024Neural Network Verification with Branch-and-Bound for General Nonlinearitiescited by 47
- 2024Scalable Neural Network Verification with Branch-and-bound Inferred Cutting Planescited by 33
- 2024Human vs. Machine: Behavioral Differences Between Expert Humans and Language Models in Wargame Simulationscited by 20
- 2024Formally Verifying Deep Reinforcement Learning Controllers with Lyapunov Barrier Certificatescited by 15
- 2025Neural Network Verification is a Programming Language Challengecited by 12
- 2024Detecting Brittle Decisions for Free: Leveraging Margin Consistency in Deep Robust Classifierscited by 10
- 2024Neural Network Verification with PyRATcited by 9
- 2025Clip-and-Verify: Linear Constraint-Driven Domain Clipping for Accelerating Neural Network Verificationcited by 9
- 2024Formal Verification of Graph Convolutional Networks with Uncertain Node Features and Uncertain Graph Structurecited by 8
- 2024Provably Safe Neural Network Controllers via Differential Dynamic Logiccited by 7
- 2024DeepCDCL: An CDCL-based Neural Network Verification Frameworkcited by 6
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- 2026Reachability-Based Formal Verification of Graph Neural Networks with Node and Edge Features24 Sep 2026
- 2026NNV3: Expanding Neural Network Verification to New Architectures and Domains24 Sep 2026
- 2026Learning Lookahead Lemmas for Neural Network Verification31 Jul 2026
- 2026Shifting-based Optimizable Linear Relaxations for General Activation Functions18 Jun 2026
- 2026Scaling Neural Network Verification with Tensor Parallelism and Fully Sharded Data Parallelism8 Jun 2026
- 2026Lipschitz Optimization for Formal Verification of Homographies22 May 2026
- 2026A Survey on the Verification of Reinforcement Learning Policies14 May 2026
- 2026Analyzing Symbolic Properties for DRL Agents in Systems and Networking6 Apr 2026
- 2026FAME: Formal Abstract Minimal Explanation for Neural Networks11 Mar 2026
- 2026From Decoupled to Coupled: Robustness Verification for Learning-based Keypoint Detection with Joint Specifications5 Mar 2026
- 2025Clip-and-Verify: Linear Constraint-Driven Domain Clipping for Accelerating Neural Network Verification11 Dec 2025
- 2025Position: Certified Robustness Does Not (Yet) Imply Model Security16 Jun 2025
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