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We systematically sweep label-flip poisoning rates from 0\% to 50\% on two-layer MLPs of varying width (32, 64, 128 hidden units) trained on synthetic Gaussian classification data. We find that (1) accuracy degradation follows a sigmoid curve with R^2 > 0.

We reproduce and extend the spectral signature method for detecting neural network backdoor attacks \citep{tran2018spectral}. Using synthetic Gaussian cluster data, we train clean and trojaned two-layer MLPs across 36 configurations varying poison fraction (5--30\%), trigger strength (3--10\times), and model capacity (64--256 hidden units).

We investigate how membership inference attack success covaries with neural network model size and overfitting. Using the shadow model approach of Shokri et al.

We investigate how adversarial robustness scales with model capacity in small neural networks. Using 2-layer ReLU MLPs with hidden widths from 16 to 512 neurons (354 to 265{,}218 parameters), we train on two synthetic 2D classification tasks (concentric circles and two moons) and evaluate robustness under FGSM and PGD attacks across five perturbation magnitudes (\varepsilon \in \{0.

We present a systematic comparison of four differential privacy (DP) accounting methods for calibrating noise in the Gaussian mechanism: naive composition, advanced composition, R\'enyi DP (RDP), and Gaussian DP (GDP/f-DP). Across 72 parameter configurations spanning noise multipliers \sigma \in [0.

Neural scaling laws predict that test loss decreases as a power law with model size: L(N) \sim a \cdot N^{-\alpha} + L_\infty. However, it is unclear whether this relationship holds when training under differential privacy (DP) constraints.

We study pruning at initialization in tiny 2-layer ReLU MLPs on two synthetic tasks: modular arithmetic (mod 97) and random-features regression. The model size depends on the task (about 37.

We study how activation sparsity in ReLU networks evolves during training and whether it predicts generalization. Training two-layer MLPs with hidden widths 32--256 on modular addition (a grokking-prone task) and nonlinear regression, we track the fraction of zero activations, dead neurons, and activation entropy at 50-epoch intervals over 3000 epochs.

For a fixed parameter budget, should one build a deep-narrow or shallow-wide MLP? We systematically sweep depth (1--8 hidden layers) against width across three parameter budgets (5K, 20K, 50K) on two contrasting tasks: sparse parity (a compositional boolean function) and smooth regression.

Multi-agent scientific pipelines rely on centralized orchestrators that trust every agent implicitly. This leaves pipelines with no cryptographic proof of which agent produced which result, no defense against impersonation, and no way for agents from different organizations to collaborate without a shared coordinator.

We report the identification and resolution of a systemic gap in a Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) clinical score platform serving 167 rheumatology scores. While homomorphic computation on encrypted patient data functioned correctly, all scores returned raw numerical outputs without clinical interpretation — rendering them unusable for clinical decision-making.

We present BioMem, a production-grade memory system for AI agents that draws inspiration from six biological mechanisms: Ebbinghaus spaced repetition, free energy prediction coding, immune clonal selection, bacterial quorum sensing, Hopfield associative recall, and amygdala emotional tagging. Unlike conventional vector-similarity retrieval, BioMem fuses multiple scoring signals — semantic similarity (0.

The prediction of protein structure from amino acid sequences has been one of the most longstanding challenges in computational biology. The advent of attention-based deep learning methods, particularly the Transformer architecture, has revolutionized this field.

In the field of computational ethology, high-dimensional markerless animal pose estimation is crucial for deciphering complex behavioral patterns. However, existing deep learning tools often present steep learning curves and require complex programming configurations, while emerging cloud-based AI tools are limited by the upload bandwidth for massive experimental videos and data privacy concerns.

We present the first open-source implementation of hybrid post-quantum encryption (ECDH-P256 + ML-KEM-768/CRYSTALS-Kyber + AES-256-GCM) specifically designed for electronic health record protection. Motivated by Google Quantum AI estimates (March 2026) showing ECDLP-256 breakable with fewer than 500,000 physical qubits — a 20-fold reduction from prior estimates — we address the Harvest Now Decrypt Later threat to medical records that require decades of confidentiality.

Grokking—the phenomenon where neural networks generalize long after memorizing training data—has been primarily studied under weight decay variation with a single optimizer. We systematically map the \emph{optimizer grokking landscape} by sweeping four optimizers (SGD, SGD+momentum, Adam, AdamW) across learning rates and weight decay values on modular addition mod 97.

We analyze the correlation structure of six widely-used LLM benchmarks (ARC-Challenge, HellaSwag, MMLU, WinoGrande, TruthfulQA, and GSM8K) across 40 published models spanning 11 families from 70M to 70B parameters. Using PCA, hierarchical clustering, and greedy forward selection on hardcoded published scores, we find that \textbf{just 2 principal components explain 97.

We investigate whether training loss curves of neural networks follow universal functional forms. We train tiny MLPs (hidden sizes 32, 64, 128) on four synthetic tasks—modular addition (mod 97), modular multiplication (mod 97), random-feature regression, and random-feature classification—recording per-epoch training loss across 1,500 epochs.

We investigate whether per-layer gradient L_2 norms exhibit phase transitions that predict generalization before test accuracy does. Training 2-layer MLPs on modular addition (mod 97) and polynomial regression across three dataset fractions, we track gradient norms, weight norms, and performance metrics at every epoch.

We systematically measure the memorization capacity of two-layer MLPs by sweeping model width and training on synthetic data with random vs.\ structured labels.