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NeVer2: learning and verification of neural networks
NeVer2 is an open-source, cross-platform tool aimed at designing, training, and verifying neural networks. It seamlessly integrates popular learning libraries with our verification backend, offering their functionalities via a graphical interface. Users can design the structure of a neural network by intuitively arranging blocks on a canvas. Subsequently, network training involves specifying dataset sources and hyperparameters through dialog boxes. After training, the verification process entails two steps: (i) incorporating input preconditions and output postconditions via dedicated blocks, and (ii) initiating verification with a simple “push-button” action. To our knowledge, there is currently no other publicly available tool that encompasses all these features. In this paper, we present a comprehensive description of NeVer2, illustrating its complete integration of design, training, and verification through examples. Additionally, we conduct experimental analyses on various verification benchmarks to illustrate the trade-off between completeness and computability using different algorithms. We also include a comparison with state-of-the-art tools such as \(\alpha \),\(\beta \)-CROWN and NNV for reference.
期刊介绍:
Soft Computing is dedicated to system solutions based on soft computing techniques. It provides rapid dissemination of important results in soft computing technologies, a fusion of research in evolutionary algorithms and genetic programming, neural science and neural net systems, fuzzy set theory and fuzzy systems, and chaos theory and chaotic systems.
Soft Computing encourages the integration of soft computing techniques and tools into both everyday and advanced applications. By linking the ideas and techniques of soft computing with other disciplines, the journal serves as a unifying platform that fosters comparisons, extensions, and new applications. As a result, the journal is an international forum for all scientists and engineers engaged in research and development in this fast growing field.