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A geometric perspective on adversarial perturbations

Student-Run Geometry/Topology Seminar

Speaker: Tommy Hogan, UC Davis
Related Webpage: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~tahogan/
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Thu, Oct 18 2018, 12:10PM

Adversarial examples are slightly perturbed images resembling natural images but maliciously crafted to fool pre-trained image classifiers (usually a deep neural network). We will discuss some geometric explanations on why these examples exist, as well as some algorithms for finding them.