NeurIPS 2026 Papers

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

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6,437papers

Counted from the official paper list; may differ slightly from the number the conference announced.

  • Oral
    991.5%
  • Spotlight
    2403.7%
  • Poster
    6,09894.7%

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Embedding Security Properties into AI-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems

Ziyan An, John Stankovic, Meiyi Ma

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AI-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are highly vulnerable to adversarial and anomalous inputs, where small perturbations can induce cascading errors and unsafe control actions. Existing approaches—such as rule-based filtering, training-time regularization, or diffusion-based reconstruction—either operate outside the model or lack mechanisms to incorporate formal security specifications into the prediction process. In this paper, we develop the first work toward embedding security properties directly into AI-enabled CPS, enabling predictive models to enforce system-level constraints during inference rather than relying on external defenses. We introduce a logic-conditioned bi-stage diffusion framework that integrates Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications into forecasting. STL serves as a first-class conditioning signal that guides both an input repair stage and an output refinement stage, allowing the model to jointly mitigate adversarial perturbations and enforce desired temporal behaviors to satisfy security-critical properties. We evaluate our approach on a real-world multivariate CPS forecasting task under both physical sensor and cyber attacks. Our method improves robustness and specification compliance, degrades more gracefully as attack strength increases, and generalizes better to unseen attacks. Ablation studies further show that embedding logical security properties yields gains unattainable by reconstruction-based methods alone, highlighting a new direction for integrating formal methods with generative models in secure CPS.

Poster
Certified Single-Level Reformulation for Tri-Level Cyber-Physical Grid Security

Debraj Banerjee, Gurunath Gurrala, Kunal Narayan Chaudhury

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Modern power grids are increasingly exposed to coordinated cyber-physical disruptions, where the outage of a small number of transmission components can trigger severe post-contingency load shedding. Designing proactive _security defense_ against such adversarial contingencies is naturally modeled as a tri-level Defender-Attacker-Operator (DAO) problem: the defender allocates limited hardening resources, the attacker selects worst-case line outages, and the operator solves a post-attack DC/AC-optimal power flow (OPF). However, the resulting tri-level program is computationally prohibitive even for moderate network sizes. We develop a certified four-step reformulation pipeline that converts this intractable tri-level DAO problem into a tractable single-level optimization, yielding a Single-Level Mixed-Integer Linear Program (SL-MILP) under DC-OPF and a Single-Level Mixed-Integer Conic Program (SL-MICP) under AC-OPF. The construction combines exact dualization, exact Big-$M$ linearization, and a single controlled attacker relaxation. We prove that the resulting single-level optimum provides a conservative upper bound on the true worst-case load shedding and, more importantly, yields a robustness certificate for the deployed defense: no feasible binary attack can induce damage exceeding the reported single-level value. Extensive experiments on IEEE benchmark systems demonstrate substantial runtime improvements while maintaining strong worst-case security guarantees.

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