Phase 4: Advanced Topics & Frontiers

Phase 4: Advanced Topics & Frontiers

Research Directions & Real-World Deployment

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The final phase explores cutting-edge research frontiers and real-world deployment challenges. You’ll study advanced robust training strategies and state-of-the-art defense mechanisms, confront scalability research and computational challenges, explore threat models beyond \(\ell_p\) perturbations, discover the unique challenges of verifying diverse architectures (Transformers, RNNs, GNNs), and examine real-world deployment scenarios across safety-critical domains. This phase bridges current research with future directions.

What You’ll Learn

This phase covers advanced topics and frontiers: from state-of-the-art training strategies and scalability challenges to alternative threat models, diverse architectures, and real-world deployment in safety-critical systems.

Guides in This Phase

1️⃣ Training Robust Networks

Comprehensive guide to adversarial training and robust optimization strategies

Training Robust Networks
2️⃣ Certified Defenses

Probabilistic certification, randomized smoothing, and defense mechanisms

Certified Defenses and Randomized Smoothing
3️⃣ Verification Scalability

Addressing computational complexity and scaling to real-world networks

Verification Scalability
4️⃣ Alternative Threats

Semantic perturbations, physical adversarial examples, and distributional robustness

Beyond \ell_p: Alternative Threat Models
5️⃣ Diverse Architectures

Unique challenges for Transformers, RNNs, GNNs, and non-standard networks

Verifying Diverse Architectures
6️⃣ Real-World Applications

Deployment in autonomous driving, medical diagnosis, and safety-critical systems

Real-World Applications

You’ve Completed All Phases!

Congratulations on completing all four phases of the NNV Guides! To see these techniques in action, explore WraLU: Fast and Precise ReLU Hull Approximation and WraAct: Convex Hull Approximation for General Activation Functions for practical verification tools, or visit My Research Journey to learn about ongoing research directions.