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Qu-ANTI-zation: Exploiting Quantization Artifacts for Achieving Adversarial Outcomes
Quantization is a popular technique that transforms the parameter representation of a neural network from floating-point numbers into lower-precision ones (e.g., 8-bit integers). It reduces the memory footprint and the computational cost at inference, facilitating the deployment of resource-hungry models. However, the parameter perturbations caused by this transformation result in behavioral disparities between the model before and after quantization. For example, a quantized model can misclassify some test-time samples that are otherwise classified correctly. It is not known whether such differences lead to a new security vulnerability.
CycleNet: Rethinking Cycle Consistency in Text-Guided Diffusion for Image Manipulation
Diffusion models (DMs) have enabled breakthroughs in image synthesis tasks but lack an intuitive interface for consistent image-to-image (I2I) translation. Various methods have been explored to address this issue, including mask-based methods, attention-based methods, and image-conditioning. However, it remains a critical challenge to enable unpaired I2I translation with pre-trained DMs while maintaining satisfying consistency. This paper introduces CycleNet, a novel but simple method that incorporates cycle consistency into DMs to regularize image manipulation.
AHighly-Efficient Group Elastic Net Algorithm with an Application to Function-On-Scalar Regression
Feature Selection and Functional Data Analysis are two dynamic areas of research, with important applications in the analysis of large and complex data sets. Straddling these two areas, we propose a new highly efficient algorithm to perform Group Elastic Net with application to function-on-scalar feature selection, where a functional response is modeled against a very large number of potential scalar predictors. First, we introduce a new algorithm to solve Group Elastic Net in ultrahigh dimensional settings, which exploits the sparsity structure of the Augmented Lagrangian to greatly reduce computational burden. Next, taking advantage of the properties of Functional Principal Components, we extend our algorithm to the function-on-scalar regression framework. We use simulations to demonstrate the CPU time gains afforded by our approach compared to its best existing competitors, and present an application to data from a Genome Wide Association Study on childhood obesity.
Appendix - An Image is Worth More Than a Thousand Words: Towards Disentanglement in The Wild Table of Contents
We use the images at 256 256resolution. We follow [21] and use all the images for training. The images used for the qualitative visualizations contain random images from the web and samples from CelebA-HQ. AFHQ [8] 15,000high quality images categorized into three domains: cat, dog and wildlife. We use the images at 128 128 resolution, holding out 500 images from each domain for testing.