Re: <nettime> Deep Fool

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

I have only casual understanding of ML, but it was always 
counter-intuitive to me that simple polynomial units can somehow produce 
magical macro effect which no one understands but it "just works". If it 
turns out that it's just a roundabout way of conditioning a linear 
system, the magic goes away.

> incorrect answer with high confidence. Early attempts at explaining this
> phenomenon focused on nonlinearity and overfitting. We argue instead
> that the primary cause of neural networks' vulnerability to adversarial
> perturbation is their linear nature. This explanation is supported by
> new quantitative results while giving the first explanation of the most
> intriguing fact about them: their generalization across architectures
> and training sets. Moreover, this view yields a simple and fast method

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