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comment by veen
veen  ·  2330 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Adversarial Turtle

Clever! Here's the paper by the way and here's the clever part:

    ...prior work has shown adversarial examples’ inability to remain adversarial even under minor perturbations inevitable in any real-world observation (Luo et al., 2016;Lu et al., 2017). To address this issue, we introduce Expectation over Transformation (EOT); the key insight behind EOT is to model such perturbations within the optimization procedure. In particular, rather than optimizing the log-likelihood of a single example, EOT uses a chosen distribution T of transformation functions t taking an input x′ generated by the adversary to the “true” input t(x′) perceived by the classifier.

If anyone here wants more explanation than just 'the algorithm is a mystery' and has an hour to spare, I really like 3Blue1Brown's explanation. It is a bit slow-paced but explaines the logic and intuition behind ML math without resorting to too many shortcuts. Here's all three videos.