Choosing the Right Threat Model Without Overfitting to ℓ∞
If you have ever uploaded a student project to a robustness leaderboard, you have probably trained against PGD-ℓ∞ with epsilon 8/255. It is the defaul...
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If you have ever uploaded a student project to a robustness leaderboard, you have probably trained against PGD-ℓ∞ with epsilon 8/255. It is the defaul...
Adversarial robustness and model calibration rarely share a headline. Most practitioners chase clean accuracy under attack, ignoring whether the model...
You push a new model to stagion. The canary picks it up—green metrics, low latency. Confidence is high. Then, at 25% traffic, error rates spike. You r...
Automated feature selection is a time-saver—until it isn't. You run Boruta, RFE, or LASSO, get a neat list of top features, feed them into your model,...
You have built a solid main-effect model—linear regression, maybe a gradient booster with default feature. But the residuals still hum with unexplaine...
You add polynomial features to capture curvature. Your validation score drops. You remove them. Score goes back up. This isn't a bug — it's the curse ...
You initiated a Vision Transformer trained run on your custom dataset. Loss declines for several hundred steps — then plateaus. Or it spikes. Or the m...
You trained your model. It hit 98% on ImageNet or CIFAR or your own curated benchmark. Then you put it in output, and it flubbed—mislabled a stop sign...
Every other week, someone on the crew asks: Should we switch to ConvNeXt? It scores 86.5 on ImageNet. And every slot, I ask back: What is our latency ...