β-phase ReLU relaxations: pointwise soundness #
Analytic core of the β-extended ReLU transfer rule, stated without reference to graphs or step functions.
Given a pre-activation z enclosed both by an affine box (propagated from the parent's
certificate) and by an IBP box, the relaxations returned by phaseRelaxVec? enclose relu z.
The IBP box is what justifies each phase's affine rule (phaseConsistentScalar? checks the phase
against it); the affine box is what the resulting slopes are applied to.
Index-wise bounds delivered by a β-consistent phase relaxation.
At index i, the lower relaxation applied to the affine lower bound sits below relu (z i), and
the upper relaxation applied to the affine upper bound sits above it. Both slopes are nonnegative,
which is what lets the affine bounds on z pass through the relaxations.
Enclosure of relu z by phase relaxations propagated through affine bounds on z.
xLo, xHi are the parent's affine lower and upper bounds (already cast to the IBP dimension
n), evaluated at the input x'; lo, hi are the IBP box that phaseRelaxVec? checked the
phases against.
Soundness of the β-phase ReLU rule at one node.
The parent value vp is enclosed by its certificate entry xin (evaluated at x) and by its
IBP box preB. The node's bounds are the phase relaxations for preB propagated through xin
cast to preB.dim, and they enclose relu vp.