auto_LiRPA
as its core library) won VNN-COMP 2023. (08/2023)auto_LiRPA
as its core library) won VNN-COMP 2022. Our library supports the large CIFAR100, TinyImageNet and ImageNet models in VNN-COMP 2022. (09/2022)auto_LiRPA
library as its core bound computation library. (09/2021)auto_LiRPA
is a library for automatically deriving and computing bounds with
linear relaxation based perturbation analysis (LiRPA) (e.g.
CROWN and
DeepPoly) for
neural networks, which is a useful tool for formal robustness verification. We
generalize existing LiRPA algorithms for feed-forward neural networks to a
graph algorithm on general computational graphs, defined by PyTorch.
Additionally, our implementation is also automatically differentiable,
allowing optimizing network parameters to shape the bounds into certain
specifications (e.g., certified defense). You can find a video ▶️ introduction
here.
Our library supports the following algorithms:
Our library allows automatic bound derivation and computation for general
computational graphs, in a similar manner that gradients are obtained in modern
deep learning frameworks -- users only define the computation in a forward
pass, and auto_LiRPA
traverses through the computational graph and derives
bounds for any nodes on the graph. With auto_LiRPA
we free users from
deriving and implementing LiPRA for most common tasks, and they can simply
apply LiPRA as a tool for their own applications. This is especially useful
for users who are not experts of LiRPA and cannot derive these bounds manually
(LiRPA is significantly more complicated than backpropagation).
Deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch represent neural networks (NN) as a computational graph, where each mathematical operation is a node and edges define the flow of computation:
Normally, the inputs of a computation graph (which defines a NN) are data and model weights, and PyTorch goes through the graph and produces model prediction (a bunch of numbers):
Our auto_LiRPA
library conducts perturbation analysis on a computational
graph, where the input data and model weights are defined within some
user-defined ranges. We get guaranteed output ranges (bounds):
Python 3.7+ and PyTorch 1.11+ are required.
It is highly recommended to have a pre-installed PyTorch
that matches your system and our version requirement.
See PyTorch Get Started.
Then you can install auto_LiRPA
via:
git clone https://github.com/Verified-Intelligence/auto_LiRPA
cd auto_LiRPA
pip install .
If you intend to modify this library, use pip install -e .
instead.
Optionally, you may build and install native CUDA modules (CUDA toolkit required):
python auto_LiRPA/cuda_utils.py install
First define your computation as a nn.Module
and wrap it using
auto_LiRPA.BoundedModule()
. Then, you can call the compute_bounds
function
to obtain certified lower and upper bounds under input perturbations:
from auto_LiRPA import BoundedModule, BoundedTensor, PerturbationLpNorm
# Define computation as a nn.Module.
class MyModel(nn.Module):
def forward(self, x):
# Define your computation here.
model = MyModel()
my_input = load_a_batch_of_data()
# Wrap the model with auto_LiRPA.
model = BoundedModule(model, my_input)
# Define perturbation. Here we add Linf perturbation to input data.
ptb = PerturbationLpNorm(norm=np.inf, eps=0.1)
# Make the input a BoundedTensor with the pre-defined perturbation.
my_input = BoundedTensor(my_input, ptb)
# Regular forward propagation using BoundedTensor works as usual.
prediction = model(my_input)
# Compute LiRPA bounds using the backward mode bound propagation (CROWN).
lb, ub = model.compute_bounds(x=(my_input,), method="backward")
Checkout examples/vision/simple_verification.py for a complete but very basic example.
We also provide a Google Colab Demo including an example of computing verification bounds for a 18-layer ResNet model on CIFAR-10 dataset. Once the ResNet model is defined as usual in Pytorch, obtaining provable output bounds is as easy as obtaining gradients through autodiff. Bounds are efficiently computed on GPUs.
We provide a wide range of examples of using auto_LiRPA
:
auto_LiRPA
has also been used in the following works:
For more documentations, please refer to:
Please kindly cite our papers if you use the auto_LiRPA
library. Full BibTeX entries can be found here.
The general LiRPA based bound propagation algorithm was originally proposed in our paper:
The auto_LiRPA
library is further extended to allow optimized bound (α-CROWN), split constraints (β-CROWN) general constraints (GCP-CROWN), and higher-order computational graphs:
Fast and Complete: Enabling Complete Neural Network Verification with Rapid and Massively Parallel Incomplete Verifiers. ICLR 2021. Kaidi Xu*, Huan Zhang*, Shiqi Wang, Yihan Wang, Suman Jana, Xue Lin and Cho-Jui Hsieh (* Equal contribution).
Beta-CROWN: Efficient Bound Propagation with Per-neuron Split Constraints for Complete and Incomplete Neural Network Verification. NeurIPS 2021. Shiqi Wang*, Huan Zhang*, Kaidi Xu*, Suman Jana, Xue Lin, Cho-Jui Hsieh and Zico Kolter (* Equal contribution).
GCP-CROWN: General Cutting Planes for Bound-Propagation-Based Neural Network Verification. Huan Zhang*, Shiqi Wang*, Kaidi Xu*, Linyi Li, Bo Li, Suman Jana, Cho-Jui Hsieh and Zico Kolter (* Equal contribution).
Efficiently Computing Local Lipschitz Constants of Neural Networks via Bound Propagation. NeurIPS 2022. Zhouxing Shi, Yihan Wang, Huan Zhang, Zico Kolter, Cho-Jui Hsieh.
Certified robust training using auto_LiRPA
is improved to allow much shorter warmup and faster training:
Branch and bound for non-ReLU and general activation functions:
Tightening of bounds and preimage computation using the INVPROP algorithm:
Team lead:
Current developers:
Past developers:
We thank the commits and pull requests from community contributors.
Our library is released under the BSD 3-Clause license.