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48 results for perturbation types

Study shows transfer of adversarial robustness between different perturbation types is limited.

problem Understanding adversarial robustness across various perturbation types.
method Evaluated 32 attacks of 5 different types on models trained on a subset of ImageNet.
result Adversarial robustness transfer between perturbation types is limited and depends on the specific type of perturbation.

Advances FTPL results for bandit problems with unbounded perturbations.

problem Improving analytical foundations of FTPL in bandit problems.
method Revisiting classical FTRL-FTPL duality for unbounded perturbations.
result Establishes Best-of-Both-Worlds (BOBW) results for FTPL under a broad family of asymmetric unbounded perturbations.

Study perturbs Dirac operator on 4D manifolds, proving Kastler-Kalau-Walze theorems.

problem Analyzing perturbations of Dirac operator on compact manifolds.
method Defining pseudo-differential perturbations and proving Kastler-Kalau-Walze theorems.
result Proved Kastler-Kalau-Walze theorems for 4D compact manifolds with boundary.

The paper studies perturbations of de Rham Hodge operators on manifolds with or without boundaries.

problem Analyzing perturbations of de Rham Hodge operators on manifolds with boundaries.
method Lichnerowicz type formulas and Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorems for 4D and 6D compact manifolds with or without boundaries.
result Proves Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorems for perturbations of de Rham Hodge operators on 4D and 6D manifolds with or without boundaries.

The paper proves new theorems about specific types of operator perturbations.

problem Analyzing conformal perturbations of Dirac and signature operators.
method Developed Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorems for specific operator types.
result Established new theorems for six-dimensional manifolds with boundary.

The paper proves two theorems for modified Novikov operators under conformal perturbations.

problem Proving theorems for modified Novikov operators under conformal perturbations.
method Two Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorems for conformal perturbations of modified Novikov Operators on 4D and 6D compact manifolds.
result Obtained two Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorems for conformal perturbations of modified Novikov Operators.

Our research tackles robustness to multiple perturbations in adversarial training.

problem Defenses against adversarial examples are tailored to single perturbation types and offer no guarantees for others.
method We analyze and train models robust to multiple p\ell_p-bounded and spatial perturbations.
result No model trained against multiple attacks achieves robustness competitive with individual training.

Numerical simulations show stability of Type-II singularities in noncompact hypersurfaces.

problem Stability of Type-II singularities in noncompact hypersurfaces with rotationally-symmetric perturbations.
method Adaptation of the overlap method to include angular dependence.
result MCF of noncompact hypersurfaces with angular dependence behaves similarly to rotationally-symmetric perturbations, developing Type-II or Type-I singularities.

Proposes a defense method against multiple adversarial video types.

problem Lack of multi-perturbation robustness in existing defense approaches.
method Adversarial training with multiple independent BN layers and a BN selection module.
result Demonstrates stronger multi-perturbation robustness against different adversarial video types.

The paper proves new theorems for Dirac operators on even-dimensional manifolds with boundary.

problem Proving theorems for Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary.
method Establishing general Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorems for conformal perturbations of Dirac operators.
result Proof of new theorems for Dirac operators on even-dimensional manifolds with boundary.

We study the general structure of formal perturbative solutions to the Hamiltonian perturbations of spatially one-dimensional systems of hyperbolic PDEs. Under certain genericity assumptions it is proved that any bihamiltonian perturbation can be eliminated in all orders of the perturbative expansion by a change of coo…

2004-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

We define string geometry: spaces of superstrings including the interactions, their topologies, charts, and metrics. Trajectories in asymptotic processes on a space of strings reproduce the right moduli space of the super Riemann surfaces in a target manifold. Based on the string geometry, we define Einstein-Hilbert ac…

2017-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Geodesic spheres in certain symmetric spaces are quantitatively stable under small perturbations.

problem Stability of geodesic spheres in symmetric spaces under perturbations.
method Quantitative stability analysis using spectral gap of the Laplacian on geodesic spheres.
result Geodesic spheres are uniformly stable with respect to small C1C^1-volume preserving perturbations.

The paper introduces spectral Einstein functionals for Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary.

problem Analyzing perturbations of Dirac operators on manifolds with boundary.
method Introduction of spectral Einstein functionals and proof of Dabrowski-Sitarz-Zalecki type theorems.
result Proof of theorems associated with spectral Einstein functionals for perturbations of Dirac operators.

EVILL uses randomised perturbations to improve exploration in bandit problems.

problem Improving exploration in structured stochastic bandit problems.
method Solves for the minimiser of a linearly perturbed regularised negative log-likelihood function.
result EVILL matches the performance of Thompson-sampling-style methods in theory and practice.

New research evaluates various perturbation methods for improving neural network robustness.

problem Understanding and improving robustness of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) against adversarial attacks.
method Detailed evaluation of five main perturbation-based defenses, comparing random and deterministic approaches.
result Perturbation-based defenses are equivalent in efficacy, and attacks transfer between them.

The paper defines and analyzes Kähler metrics near a compact manifold, showing their deviation from Poincaré-type metrics.

problem Understanding the behavior of Kähler metrics near a compact manifold.
method Defining and analyzing Kähler metrics on a trivial holomorphic open disk bundle, showing their deviation from Poincaré-type metrics.
result The Kähler metrics near a compact manifold deviate exponentially from Poincaré-type metrics, and they arise naturally in perturbing cscK metrics.

Paper optimizes FTPL for adversarial and stochastic bandits with specific tail distributions.

problem Optimizing Follow-the-Perturbed-Leader (FTPL) policy for bandit problems.
method Analyzes FTPL with Fréchet-type tail distributions in adversarial and stochastic settings.
result FTPL with certain Fréchet-type tail distributions achieves O(KT)\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{KT}) regrets in adversarial bandits.

In this paper we establish stability results for symmetric spaces of noncompact type under Ricci flow, i.e. we will show that any small perturbation of the symmetric metric is flown back to the original metric under an appropriately rescaled Ricci flow. It will be important for us which smallness assumptions we have to…

2010-11-18abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper improves flow models to better handle perturbations in real-world data.

problem Flow models amplify initial errors in perturbed data, leading to poor generalization.
method Utilizes Bernstein-type polynomials to construct Normalizing Flows (NF) for higher robustness.
result Proposed NF framework provides theoretical upper bounds and practical advantages.

This research investigates reliable local explanations for machine listening models.

problem Generating reliable local explanations for machine listening models.
method Investigates the sensitivity of SoundLIME explanations to input perturbations and proposes a novel method for identifying suitable content types.
result SoundLIME explanations are sensitive to the content in occluded input regions, and the average magnitude of input mel-spectrogram bins is the most suitable content type for temporal explanations.

Paper defends deep learning classifiers against channel-aware adversarial attacks.

problem Deep learning classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
method Channel-aware adversarial attacks are presented and defended against.
result Certified defense based on randomized smoothing makes classifiers robust.

Manifolds with fibered hyperbolic cusp metrics include hyperbolic manifolds with cusps and locally symmetric spaces of Q-rank one. We extend Vaillant's treatment of Dirac-type operators associated to these metrics by weaking the hypotheses on the boundary families through the use of Fredholm perturbations as in the fam…

2008-01-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Study adversarial perturbations in classification, analyzing learning and certification.

problem Formal study of classification under adversarial perturbations from both learner and third-party perspectives.
method PAC-type semi-supervised learning framework, black-box certification under limited query budget, adversary analysis.
result Existence of a polynomial query complexity adversary implies the existence of a sample efficient robust learner.

We use closed geodesics to construct and compute Bott-type Morse homology groups for the energy functional on the loop space of flat nn-dimensional tori, n1n\ge 1, and Bott-type Floer cohomology groups for their cotangent bundles equipped with the natural symplectic structure. Both objects are isomorpic to the singula…

1996-12-16abs ↗pdf ↗

New approach to adversarial robustness with non-uniform perturbations.

problem Real-world adversaries craft adversarial examples with non-uniform perturbations.
method Proposes non-uniform perturbations based on feature dependencies and data distribution.
result Shows improved robustness to real-world attacks compared to uniform perturbations.

The study examines how perturbations of lattice actions on group boundaries behave.

problem Understanding how perturbations of lattice actions on group boundaries affect semi-conjugacy.
method Analyzes continuous factorization of perturbed actions onto original actions by semi-conjugacy.
result Perturbations of lattice actions on group boundaries can be C0C^0 semi-conjugate or not.

We generalize the Zermelo navigation problem and its solution on Riemannian manifolds (M,h)(M, h) admitting a space dependence of a ship's speed 0<u(x)h10<|u(x)|_h\leq1 in the presence of a perturbation W~\tilde{W} determined by a strong velocity vector field satisfying W~(x)h=u(x)h|\tilde{W}(x)|_h=|u(x)|_h, with application of Finsler m…

2016-06-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Recent studies show that widely used deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to carefully crafted adversarial examples. Many advanced algorithms have been proposed to generate adversarial examples by leveraging the Lp\mathcal{L}_p distance for penalizing perturbations. Researchers have explored different defense met…

2018-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves uniqueness of non-extremal Kerr-Newman black holes under small perturbations.

problem Uniqueness of non-extremal Kerr-Newman black holes under small perturbations.
method Perturbative analysis using Mars-Simon type tensors.
result Proves that a space-time close to the Kerr-Newman family must be one of the Kerr-Newman solutions.

In \cite{LZ2} it is proved that for certain class of perturbations of the hyperbolic equation ut=f(u)uxu_t=f(u) u_x, there exist changes of coordinate, called quasi-Miura transformations, that reduce the perturbed equations to the unperturbed one. We prove in the present paper that if in addition the perturbed equations posse…

2007-11-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Classifiers fail to classify correctly input images that have been purposefully and imperceptibly perturbed to cause misclassification. This susceptability has been shown to be consistent across classifiers, regardless of their type, architecture or parameters. Common defenses against adversarial attacks modify the cla…

2018-12-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Let X be a smooth compact manifold with boundary. For smooth foliations on the boundary of X admitting a `resolution' in terms of a fibration, we construct a pseudodifferential calculus generalizing the fibred cusp calculus of Mazzeo and Melrose. In particular, we introduce certain symbols leading to a simple descripti…

2010-09-22abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the Zermelo navigation problem on the ellipsoid of revolution (spheroid) in the presence of a perturbation WW determined by a mild velocity vector field, W<1|W|<1, with application of Finsler metric of Randers type in the context of the corresponding optimal control represented by a time-efficient ship's he…

2016-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper tackles robust graph matching in dense graphs with AMP type algorithm.

problem Matching recovery between correlated Gaussian Wigner matrices with adversarial perturbations.
method Approximate Message Passing (AMP) type iterative algorithm with time-dependent matrix multiplication.
result Algorithm succeeds in polynomial time for non-vanishing correlation and small perturbations.

In this paper we present the full details of the construction of a Morse-Floer type homology related to the super-quadratic perturbation of the Dirac-geodesic model. This homology is computed explicitly using a Leray-Serre type spectral sequence and this computation leads us to several existence results of Dirac-geodes…

2017-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗