Let us start with something simple. We download a neural network to try out in a project. It might sort images or help with a data pipeline. That model looks like just a file we use and forget. Now imagine that file is carrying a hidden payload. It might sound like a thought experiment, but …
Autonomous vehicles need to classify road conditions in real time. Wet roads, icy surfaces, severe potholes. The model needs to know so the vehicle can adjust speed, traction, suspension before it gets there. Training that model needs data. Lots of it. From lots of different roads, weather conditions, geographies. You could collect it all centrally, …
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With so much noise out there with LLMs and GPTs, we often tend to forget the basic building blocks or the primitive concepts that led to the advancement of these technologies. Recurrent Neural Networks, or RNNs in short are one of the basic concepts that lead to a better understanding of these advanced concepts. In …
The Basic Premise Think about it. What is the basic premise on which Machine Learning works? Learning to update its weights, which updates its “beliefs” about something, based on how often it makes a “mistake.” We apply for jobs, click apply, get rejected, if lucky, you get feedback : why not me? However, most companies …
Simple. Neural Networks only understand numerical data. Their weights, their biases, and their training, all take place using numerical values, floats, and integers, yada yada. Now when we want to work with words and other textual data, we need a way to convert them to numerical representation, that’s where word embeddings come under the picture. …
With the concerns about data privacy rising and with the rise of AI models, people are increasingly concerned about their data being misused for purposes beyond their consent. As we know that data is the new oil of this century, it is a very sought after commodity. Seeing these concerns, Google introduced the concept of …
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are incredibly powerful in the world of machine learning. They excel at creating synthetic data that’s so close to real data, it’s almost uncanny. Today, we’re diving into how these networks work and even trying our hand at building a simple GAN framework using PyTorch. But why the term “Adversarial”? Well, …
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Today I will be discussing my understanding of the paper Universal Backdoor Attacks. The paper delves into another exciting exploit that can be leveraged against popular convolutional models such as Resnets. What is a Universal Backdoor A backdoor is an alternate entry to your house. In the field of computers and security in general, it …
So today I will be analyzing and providing a brief summary of my understanding of this paper titled Remember What You Want To Forget This paper presents one of the algorithms for machine unlearning. Machine Unlearning is an important practice when it comes to privacy and security in machine learning. Machine unlearning algorithms aim to …
Differential privacy is a technique devised for data analysis whilst maintaining the privacy of the individuals whose data is involved. It was first introduced in the year 2006, by Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, and Adam Smith and has been one of the foundational pillars in the intersection of data science and privacy. At …