Abstract:Enforcing constraint satisfaction in neural network outputs is critical for safety, reliability, and physical fidelity in many control and decision-making applications. While soft-constrained methods penalize constraint violations during training, they do not guarantee constraint adherence during inference. Other approaches guarantee constraint satisfaction via a projection layer, but often rely on the existence of a tractable projection onto the feasible set, limiting their utility in more general problem settings. Many real-world problems of interest are nonlinear and lack the special structure admitting a tractable projection, motivating the development of methods that can enforce general nonlinear constraints. To this end, we introduce HardNet++, a constraint-satisfaction method that enforces linear and nonlinear equality and inequality constraints. Our approach iteratively adjusts the network output via damped local linearizations of the constraints. Each iteration is differentiable, admitting an end-to-end training framework, where the constraint satisfaction layer is active during training. We show that under certain regularity conditions, this procedure enforces nonlinear constraint satisfaction to arbitrary tolerance. Finally, we demonstrate tight constraint adherence without loss of optimality in a learning-for-optimization context, where we apply this method to a nonlinear model predictive control problem.
From: Andrea Goertzen [view email]
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