Watermarking of deep neural networks (DNN) can enable their tracing once released by a data owner. In this paper, we generalize white-box watermarking algorithms for DNNs, where the data owner needs white-box access to the model to extract the watermark. White-box watermarking algorithms have the advantage that they do…
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This paper analyzes crypto white papers under MiCAR, highlighting NLP's role.
problem Regulatory changes in crypto white papers under MiCAR.
method Survey of existing NLP applications, analysis of MiCAR changes.
result NLP can assist in regulatory compliance and white paper analysis.
No minimal charts with exactly seven white vertices found.
problem Finding minimal charts with specific vertex counts.
method Investigating charts representing embedded surfaces in 4-space.
result No minimal chart with exactly seven white vertices exists.
We investigate minimal charts with loops, a simple closed curve consisting of edges of label containing exactly one white vertex. We shall show that there does not exist any loop in a minimal chart with exactly seven white vertices in this paper.
This paper studies business cycle patterns in UK sectoral output. It analyzes the distinction between white noise processes and their non-white noise counterparts in the frequency domain and further examines the associated features and patterns for the process where white noise conditions are violated. The characterist…
Study analyzes correlation structure in two-factor Hull-White model for XVA calculations.
problem Capturing the correlation structure in two-factor Hull-White model for accurate XVA calculations.
method Combination of approximation formula and Monte-Carlo simulation to investigate correlation structure.
result Hull-White model effectively captures de-correlation of the yield curve under specific parameter conditions.
Paper proposes a new Autoencoder for robustly encoding white matter streamlines.
problem Limited Autoencoder architectures ignore global streamline geometry and lack interpretability.
method Introduces Differentiable Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (D-VQ-VAE) for entire streamline bundles.
result Demonstrates superior performance in encoding and synthesis compared to state-of-the-art Autoencoders.
Paper presents a fast algorithm for pricing Bermudan swaptions under the two-factor Hull-White model.
problem Evaluating Bermudan swaption prices under the two-factor Hull-White model with high computational efficiency.
method Discretization of expected value calculation, Gaussian kernel sums, fast Gauss transform, grid rotation for stability.
result Significant reduction in computation time and improved stability for correlation close to -1.
Tract-specific diffusion measures, as derived from brain diffusion MRI, have been linked to white matter tract structural integrity and neurodegeneration. As a consequence, there is a large interest in the automatic segmentation of white matter tract in diffusion tensor MRI data. Methods based on the tractography are p…
The Time Function of Stock Priceq-fin.ST
The paper defines the time function of stock prices using a mathematical model.
problem Understanding the movement and predictability of stock prices over time.
method Empirical evidence and mathematical modeling of white noise.
result Derives auto-correlation function, displacement formula, and power spectral density of stock price movement.
Black women and white men have the highest income disparity in the U.S.
problem Income inequality between black women and white men in the USA
method Dynamic microeconomic model, analyzing black and white population income since 1930
result Black females and white males are poles of overall income inequality
Paper addresses xVA models for market-implied skew and smile.
problem Capturing market-implied skew and smile in xVA calculations.
method Developed a state-dependent SDE combining Hull-White models with RAnD technique.
result Demonstrated significant effect of skew and smile on xVA calculations.
In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI) time discretization schemes in the numerical solution of the three-dimensional Heston-Hull-White partial differential equation, which is semidiscretized by applying finite difference schemes on nonuniform spatial grids. We consider t…
Derives semi-closed form prices for barrier options in the Hull-White model.
problem Calculating prices of barrier options in the Hull-White model with time-dependent parameters.
method Applies generalized integral transform and heat potentials to solve linear Volterra equations of the first kind.
result The method provides more efficient and accurate solutions compared to finite difference methods.
ODS improves adversarial attacks by maximizing output diversity.
problem Efficiency and effectiveness of adversarial attacks, especially black-box attacks.
method Output Diversified Sampling (ODS) that maximizes diversity in model outputs.
result ODS reduces the number of queries needed for black-box attacks on ImageNet by a factor of two.
We present a new approach to the optimal portfolio problem for an insider with logarithmic utility. Our method is based on white noise theory, stochastic forward integrals, Hida-Malliavin calculus and the Donsker delta function.
Enhances geodesic fiber tracking in white matter using modified metrics and tensor data.
problem Improving the accuracy and robustness of geodesic fiber tracking in white matter.
method Modification of geodesic ray-tracing method using rescaled metrics and fourth-order tensor data.
result More satisfactory results in the construction of white matter tracts as geodesics.
Depending on how much information an adversary can access to, adversarial attacks can be classified as white-box attack and black-box attack. For white-box attack, optimization-based attack algorithms such as projected gradient descent (PGD) can achieve relatively high attack success rates within moderate iterates. How…
Extends batch active learning to non-differentiable models.
problem Efficiently training machine learning models on large, initially unlabelled datasets.
method Black-box batch active learning for regression tasks that relies solely on model predictions.
result Achieves strong performance on regression datasets compared to white-box approaches for deep learning models.
In-vivo examination of the physical connectivity of axonal projections through the white matter of the human brain is made possible by diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) Analysis of dMRI commonly considers derived scalar metrics such as fractional anisotrophy as proxies for "white matter integrity," a…
Deep neural networks are susceptible to various inference attacks as they remember information about their training data. We design white-box inference attacks to perform a comprehensive privacy analysis of deep learning models. We measure the privacy leakage through parameters of fully trained models as well as the pa…
New action poisoning attacks improve LinUCB's performance by changing action signals.
problem Improving understanding of adversarial attacks on contextual bandit algorithms.
method Proposed action poisoning attacks in white-box and black-box settings.
result Action poisoning attacks can force LinUCB to pull a target arm frequently with low cost.
No minimal chart of type (7) exists.
problem Characterizing minimal charts of specific types.
method Analyzing charts based on edge labels and white vertex counts.
result There is no minimal chart of type (7).
New formulas for barrier options in stochastic volatility models with nonzero correlation.
problem Calculating barrier options prices in models with nonzero correlation.
method Derivation of two novel closed-form formulas: Hull and White type and Alòs-like decomposition.
result Closed-form formulas for barrier options in stochastic volatility models with nonzero correlation.
Paper develops an online EM algorithm for graph signal inference from streaming data.
problem Joint inference and clustering of graph signals with non-white excitation.
method Mixture model with low-rank plus sparse prior, online EM algorithm.
result Proposed online EM algorithm converges to MAP solution.
Neural networks are known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples. In this note, we evaluate the two white-box defenses that appeared at CVPR 2018 and find they are ineffective: when applying existing techniques, we can reduce the accuracy of the defended models to 0%.
Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Iterative adversarial training has shown promising results against strong white-box attacks. However, adversarial training is very expensive, and every time a model needs to be protected, such expensive training scheme needs to be performed. In this paper,…
Given a 2-crossing minimal chart , a minimal chart with two crossings, set there exists an edge of label containing a white vertex, and there exists an edge of label containing a white vertex. In this paper we study the structure of a neighbourhood of , and p…
SCENE-Net improves 3D point cloud segmentation with low resource usage and transparency.
problem Lack of resources and transparency in 3D semantic segmentation models.
method SCENE-Net uses signature shapes identified via GENEOs to achieve semantic segmentation with minimal resources.
result SCENE-Net achieves comparable IoU to state-of-the-art methods with less data and computational resources.
Large bundles of myelinated axons, called white matter, anatomically connect disparate brain regions together and compose the structural core of the human connectome. We recently proposed a method of measuring the local integrity along the length of each white matter fascicle, termed the local connectome. If communicat…
New method improves black-box attacks using pre-trained models.
problem Efficiently attacking black-box models with limited information.
method EigenBA algorithm leveraging pre-trained white-box model's Jacobian matrix.
result Optimal perturbations are related to right singular vectors of Jacobian matrix.
Transfer learning improves model robustness against adversarial attacks.
problem Understanding how transfer learning affects model robustness against adversarial attacks.
method Extensive empirical evaluations of white-box and black-box attacks on fine-tuned transfer learning models.
result Adversarial examples are more transferable when fine-tuning is used than when networks are trained independently.
A non-traditional approach to the discretization of differential-geometrical connections was suggested by the authors in 1997. At the same time we started studying first order difference ``black and white triangle operators (equations)'' on triangulated surfaces with a black and white coloring or triangles. In this wor…
CRATE-MAE learns structured representations from unlabeled data.
problem Learning structured representations from unlabeled data.
method Structured Diffusion with White-Box Transformers.
result CRATE-MAE achieves highly promising performance on large-scale imagery datasets.
We study a hybrid tree-finite difference method which permits to obtain efficient and accurate European and American option prices in the Heston Hull-White and Heston Hull-White2d models. Moreover, as a by-product, we provide a new simulation scheme to be used for Monte Carlo evaluations. Numerical results show the rel…
No minimal chart of type (2,3,2) exists.
problem Characterizing minimal charts of specific types.
method Analyzing charts with given edge label constraints.
result No minimal chart of type (2,3,2) exists.
ARCH and GARCH models assume either i.i.d. or (what economists lable as) white noise as is usual in regression analysis while assuming memory in a conditional mean square fluctuation with stationary increments. We will show that ARCH/GARCH is inconsistent with uncorrelated increments, violating the i.i.d. and white ass…
Paper presents certified defenses against adversarial patch attacks.
problem Certified defenses against adversarial patch attacks are needed.
method Proposes the first certified defense and faster training methods.
result Demonstrates robustness transfer across different patch shapes.
A new test detects noise in graph data, useful for forecasting.
problem Detecting uncorrelated noise in graph data.
method Spatio-temporal extension of traditional tests, using graph signals.
result Asymptotic distribution known, no assumption of identically distributed data.
Ensemble of diverse CNNs detects and mitigates adversarial attacks.
problem Detecting and defending against adversarial attacks.
method An ensemble of specialized CNNs with a voting mechanism.
result Significant reduction in adversarial attack risk rate.
G-framework is presented by Peng [41] for measure risk under uncertainty. In this paper, we define fractional G-Brownian motion (fGBm). Fractional G-Brownian motion is a centered G-Gaussian process with zero mean and stationary increments in the sense of sub-linearity with Hurst index . This process has sta…
Geometric framework for aligning fiber tracts across subjects.
problem Challenges in finding direct tract correspondence across multiple individuals.
method Geometric framework using intrinsic mean and deformation fields, parallel transport for registration.
result Bundle alignment results on 43 healthy adult subjects.
Adversarial examples are important for understanding the behavior of neural models, and can improve their robustness through adversarial training. Recent work in natural language processing generated adversarial examples by assuming white-box access to the attacked model, and optimizing the input directly against it (E…
Membership inference determines, given a sample and trained parameters of a machine learning model, whether the sample was part of the training set. In this paper, we derive the optimal strategy for membership inference with a few assumptions on the distribution of the parameters. We show that optimal attacks only depe…
We study the Hull-White model for the term structure of interest rates in the presence of volatility uncertainty. The uncertainty about the volatility is represented by a set of beliefs, which naturally leads to a sublinear expectation and a G-Brownian motion. The main question in this setting is how to find an arbitra…
Study on how many queries an adversary needs to make to match the best attack in white-box model.
problem Query complexity of adversarial attacks in machine learning models.
method Investigates the number of queries required for an adversary to match the best possible attack in the white-box model, using entropy of decision boundaries as a measure.
result Lower bound on the number of queries required for an adversary to match the best possible attack in the white-box model.
Proves uniqueness of translators in 3D space.
problem Uniqueness of pitchfork and helicoid translators in mean curvature flow.
method Arc-counting argument and rotational maximum principle.
result Proves conjecture on uniqueness of translators.
Volatility in Financial Markets: Stochastic Models and Empirical Resultscond-mat.stat-mech
We investigate the historical volatility of the 100 most capitalized stocks traded in US equity markets. An empirical probability density function (pdf) of volatility is obtained and compared with the theoretical predictions of a lognormal model and of the Hull and White model. The lognormal model well describes the pd…