Mathias Lechner
Graduate School
Henzinger_Thomas Group
24 Publications
2023 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 12704 |

Revisiting the adversarial robustness-accuracy tradeoff in robot learning
M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8 (2023) 1595–1602.
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M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8 (2023) 1595–1602.
2022 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 12010 |

Latent imagination facilitates zero-shot transfer in autonomous racing
A. Brunnbauer, L. Berducci, A. Brandstatter, M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2022, pp. 7513–7520.
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A. Brunnbauer, L. Berducci, A. Brandstatter, M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2022, pp. 7513–7520.
2022 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 12147 |

Closed-form continuous-time neural networks
R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, L. Liebenwein, A. Ray, M. Tschaikowski, G. Teschl, D. Rus, Nature Machine Intelligence 4 (2022) 992–1003.
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R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, L. Liebenwein, A. Ray, M. Tschaikowski, G. Teschl, D. Rus, Nature Machine Intelligence 4 (2022) 992–1003.
2022 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 12510
GoTube: Scalable statistical verification of continuous-depth models
S.A. Gruenbacher, M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 36 (2022) 6755–6764.
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S.A. Gruenbacher, M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 36 (2022) 6755–6764.
2022 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 12511
Stability verification in stochastic control systems via neural network supermartingales
M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 36 (2022) 7326–7336.
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M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 36 (2022) 7326–7336.
2022 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 11362 |

Learning verifiable representations
M. Lechner, Learning Verifiable Representations, ISTA, 2022.
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M. Lechner, Learning Verifiable Representations, ISTA, 2022.
2022 | Preprint | IST-REx-ID: 11366 |

Revisiting the adversarial robustness-accuracy tradeoff in robot learning
M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, ArXiv (n.d.).
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M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, ArXiv (n.d.).
2021 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 10404 |

Interactive analysis of CNN robustness
S. Sietzen, M. Lechner, J. Borowski, R. Hasani, M. Waldner, Computer Graphics Forum 40 (2021) 253–264.
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S. Sietzen, M. Lechner, J. Borowski, R. Hasani, M. Waldner, Computer Graphics Forum 40 (2021) 253–264.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10669 |

On the verification of neural ODEs with stochastic guarantees
S. Grunbacher, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, J. Cyranka, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 11525–11535.
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S. Grunbacher, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, J. Cyranka, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 11525–11535.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10671 |

Liquid time-constant networks
R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 7657–7666.
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R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 7657–7666.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10668 |

On-off center-surround receptive fields for accurate and robust image classification
Z. Babaiee, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2021, pp. 478–489.
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Z. Babaiee, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2021, pp. 478–489.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10670 |

Causal navigation by continuous-time neural networks
C.J. Vorbach, R. Hasani, A. Amini, M. Lechner, D. Rus, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
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C.J. Vorbach, R. Hasani, A. Amini, M. Lechner, D. Rus, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10665 |

Scalable verification of quantized neural networks
T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 3787–3795.
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T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 3787–3795.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10667 |

Infinite time horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks
M. Lechner, Ð. Žikelić, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
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M. Lechner, Ð. Žikelić, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10666 |

Adversarial training is not ready for robot learning
M. Lechner, R. Hasani, R. Grosu, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021, pp. 4140–4147.
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M. Lechner, R. Hasani, R. Grosu, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021, pp. 4140–4147.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10673 |

A natural lottery ticket winner: Reinforcement learning with ordinary neural circuits
R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020, pp. 4082–4093.
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R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020, pp. 4082–4093.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10672 |

Learning representations for binary-classification without backpropagation
M. Lechner, in:, 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2020.
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M. Lechner, in:, 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2020.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 7808 |

How many bits does it take to quantize your neural network?
M. Giacobbe, T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, in:, International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 79–97.
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M. Giacobbe, T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, in:, International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 79–97.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 8194 |

An SMT theory of fixed-point arithmetic
M. Baranowski, S. He, M. Lechner, T.S. Nguyen, Z. Rakamarić, in:, Automated Reasoning, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 13–31.
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M. Baranowski, S. He, M. Lechner, T.S. Nguyen, Z. Rakamarić, in:, Automated Reasoning, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 13–31.
2020 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 8679
Neural circuit policies enabling auditable autonomy
M. Lechner, R. Hasani, A. Amini, T.A. Henzinger, D. Rus, R. Grosu, Nature Machine Intelligence 2 (2020) 642–652.
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M. Lechner, R. Hasani, A. Amini, T.A. Henzinger, D. Rus, R. Grosu, Nature Machine Intelligence 2 (2020) 642–652.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 8704 |

Gershgorin loss stabilizes the recurrent neural network compartment of an end-to-end robot learning scheme
M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2020, pp. 5446–5452.
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M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2020, pp. 5446–5452.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 9103 |

Lagrangian reachtubes: The next generation
S. Gruenbacher, J. Cyranka, M. Lechner, M.A. Islam, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, 2020, pp. 1556–1563.
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S. Gruenbacher, J. Cyranka, M. Lechner, M.A. Islam, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, 2020, pp. 1556–1563.
2019 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 6888 |

Designing worm-inspired neural networks for interpretable robotic control
M. Lechner, R. Hasani, M. Zimmer, T.A. Henzinger, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2019.
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M. Lechner, R. Hasani, M. Zimmer, T.A. Henzinger, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2019.
2019 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 6985 |

Response characterization for auditing cell dynamics in long short-term memory networks
R. Hasani, A. Amini, M. Lechner, F. Naser, R. Grosu, D. Rus, in:, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, 2019.
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R. Hasani, A. Amini, M. Lechner, F. Naser, R. Grosu, D. Rus, in:, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, 2019.
24 Publications
2023 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 12704 |

Revisiting the adversarial robustness-accuracy tradeoff in robot learning
M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8 (2023) 1595–1602.
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M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8 (2023) 1595–1602.
2022 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 12010 |

Latent imagination facilitates zero-shot transfer in autonomous racing
A. Brunnbauer, L. Berducci, A. Brandstatter, M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2022, pp. 7513–7520.
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A. Brunnbauer, L. Berducci, A. Brandstatter, M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2022, pp. 7513–7520.
2022 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 12147 |

Closed-form continuous-time neural networks
R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, L. Liebenwein, A. Ray, M. Tschaikowski, G. Teschl, D. Rus, Nature Machine Intelligence 4 (2022) 992–1003.
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R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, L. Liebenwein, A. Ray, M. Tschaikowski, G. Teschl, D. Rus, Nature Machine Intelligence 4 (2022) 992–1003.
2022 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 12510
GoTube: Scalable statistical verification of continuous-depth models
S.A. Gruenbacher, M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 36 (2022) 6755–6764.
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S.A. Gruenbacher, M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 36 (2022) 6755–6764.
2022 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 12511
Stability verification in stochastic control systems via neural network supermartingales
M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 36 (2022) 7326–7336.
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M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 36 (2022) 7326–7336.
2022 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 11362 |

Learning verifiable representations
M. Lechner, Learning Verifiable Representations, ISTA, 2022.
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M. Lechner, Learning Verifiable Representations, ISTA, 2022.
2022 | Preprint | IST-REx-ID: 11366 |

Revisiting the adversarial robustness-accuracy tradeoff in robot learning
M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, ArXiv (n.d.).
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M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, ArXiv (n.d.).
2021 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 10404 |

Interactive analysis of CNN robustness
S. Sietzen, M. Lechner, J. Borowski, R. Hasani, M. Waldner, Computer Graphics Forum 40 (2021) 253–264.
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S. Sietzen, M. Lechner, J. Borowski, R. Hasani, M. Waldner, Computer Graphics Forum 40 (2021) 253–264.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10669 |

On the verification of neural ODEs with stochastic guarantees
S. Grunbacher, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, J. Cyranka, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 11525–11535.
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S. Grunbacher, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, J. Cyranka, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 11525–11535.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10671 |

Liquid time-constant networks
R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 7657–7666.
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R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 7657–7666.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10668 |

On-off center-surround receptive fields for accurate and robust image classification
Z. Babaiee, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2021, pp. 478–489.
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Z. Babaiee, R. Hasani, M. Lechner, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning, ML Research Press, 2021, pp. 478–489.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10670 |

Causal navigation by continuous-time neural networks
C.J. Vorbach, R. Hasani, A. Amini, M. Lechner, D. Rus, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
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C.J. Vorbach, R. Hasani, A. Amini, M. Lechner, D. Rus, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10665 |

Scalable verification of quantized neural networks
T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 3787–3795.
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T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, D. Zikelic, in:, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, 2021, pp. 3787–3795.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10667 |

Infinite time horizon safety of Bayesian neural networks
M. Lechner, Ð. Žikelić, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
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M. Lechner, Ð. Žikelić, K. Chatterjee, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 35th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021.
2021 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10666 |

Adversarial training is not ready for robot learning
M. Lechner, R. Hasani, R. Grosu, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021, pp. 4140–4147.
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M. Lechner, R. Hasani, R. Grosu, D. Rus, T.A. Henzinger, in:, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021, pp. 4140–4147.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10673 |

A natural lottery ticket winner: Reinforcement learning with ordinary neural circuits
R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020, pp. 4082–4093.
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R. Hasani, M. Lechner, A. Amini, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2020, pp. 4082–4093.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 10672 |

Learning representations for binary-classification without backpropagation
M. Lechner, in:, 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2020.
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M. Lechner, in:, 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR, 2020.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 7808 |

How many bits does it take to quantize your neural network?
M. Giacobbe, T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, in:, International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 79–97.
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M. Giacobbe, T.A. Henzinger, M. Lechner, in:, International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 79–97.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 8194 |

An SMT theory of fixed-point arithmetic
M. Baranowski, S. He, M. Lechner, T.S. Nguyen, Z. Rakamarić, in:, Automated Reasoning, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 13–31.
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M. Baranowski, S. He, M. Lechner, T.S. Nguyen, Z. Rakamarić, in:, Automated Reasoning, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 13–31.
2020 | Journal Article | IST-REx-ID: 8679
Neural circuit policies enabling auditable autonomy
M. Lechner, R. Hasani, A. Amini, T.A. Henzinger, D. Rus, R. Grosu, Nature Machine Intelligence 2 (2020) 642–652.
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M. Lechner, R. Hasani, A. Amini, T.A. Henzinger, D. Rus, R. Grosu, Nature Machine Intelligence 2 (2020) 642–652.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 8704 |

Gershgorin loss stabilizes the recurrent neural network compartment of an end-to-end robot learning scheme
M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2020, pp. 5446–5452.
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M. Lechner, R. Hasani, D. Rus, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2020, pp. 5446–5452.
2020 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 9103 |

Lagrangian reachtubes: The next generation
S. Gruenbacher, J. Cyranka, M. Lechner, M.A. Islam, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, 2020, pp. 1556–1563.
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S. Gruenbacher, J. Cyranka, M. Lechner, M.A. Islam, S.A. Smolka, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings of the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE, 2020, pp. 1556–1563.
2019 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 6888 |

Designing worm-inspired neural networks for interpretable robotic control
M. Lechner, R. Hasani, M. Zimmer, T.A. Henzinger, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2019.
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M. Lechner, R. Hasani, M. Zimmer, T.A. Henzinger, R. Grosu, in:, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, IEEE, 2019.
2019 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 6985 |

Response characterization for auditing cell dynamics in long short-term memory networks
R. Hasani, A. Amini, M. Lechner, F. Naser, R. Grosu, D. Rus, in:, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, 2019.
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R. Hasani, A. Amini, M. Lechner, F. Naser, R. Grosu, D. Rus, in:, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IEEE, 2019.