Fri, 16 May 2025
13:00
L6

Certifying robustness via topological representations

Andrea Guidolin
(University of Southampton)

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Abstract
Deep learning models are known to be vulnerable to small malicious perturbations producing so-called adversarial examples. Vulnerability to adversarial examples is of particular concern in the case of models developed to operate in security- and safety-critical situations. As a consequence, the study of robustness properties of deep learning models has recently attracted significant attention.

In this talk we discuss how the stability results for the invariants of Topological Data Analysis can be exploited to design machine learning models with robustness guarantees. We propose a neural network architecture that can learn discriminative geometric representations of data from persistence diagrams. The learned representations enjoy Lipschitz stability with a controllable Lipschitz constant. In adversarial learning, this stability can be used to certify robustness for samples in a dataset, as we demonstrate on synthetic data.
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A warm welcome.

Tue, 10 Jun 2025
16:00

Random multiplicative functions and their distribution

Seth Hardy
(University of Warwick)
Abstract

Understanding the size of the partial sums of the Möbius function is one of the most fundamental problems in analytic number theory. This motivated the 1944 paper of Wintner, where he introduced the concept of a random multiplicative function: a probabilistic model for the Möbius function. In recent years, it has been uncovered that there is an intimate connection between random multiplicative functions and the theory of Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos, an area of probability theory introduced by Kahane in the 1980's. We will survey selected results and discuss recent research on the distribution of partial sums of random multiplicative functions when restricted to integers with a large prime factor.

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