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Revisit of directed flow in relativistic heavy-ion collisions from a multiphase transport model
We have revisited several interesting questions on how the rapidity-odd
directed flow is developed in relativistic Au+Au collisions at
= 200 and 39 GeV based on a multiphase transport model. As the
partonic phase evolves with time, the slope of the parton directed flow at
midrapidity region changes from negative to positive as a result of the later
dynamics at 200 GeV, while it remains negative at 39 GeV due to the shorter
life time of the partonic phase. The directed flow splitting for various quark
species due to their different initial eccentricities is observed at 39 GeV,
while the splitting is very small at 200 GeV. From a dynamical coalescence
algorithm with Wigner functions, we found that the directed flow of hadrons is
a result of competition between the coalescence in momentum and coordinate
space as well as further modifications by the hadronic rescatterings.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures, version after major revisio
ME-Net: Towards Effective Adversarial Robustness with Matrix Estimation
Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. The literature is
rich with algorithms that can easily craft successful adversarial examples. In
contrast, the performance of defense techniques still lags behind. This paper
proposes ME-Net, a defense method that leverages matrix estimation (ME). In
ME-Net, images are preprocessed using two steps: first pixels are randomly
dropped from the image; then, the image is reconstructed using ME. We show that
this process destroys the adversarial structure of the noise, while
re-enforcing the global structure in the original image. Since humans typically
rely on such global structures in classifying images, the process makes the
network mode compatible with human perception. We conduct comprehensive
experiments on prevailing benchmarks such as MNIST, CIFAR-10, SVHN, and
Tiny-ImageNet. Comparing ME-Net with state-of-the-art defense mechanisms shows
that ME-Net consistently outperforms prior techniques, improving robustness
against both black-box and white-box attacks.Comment: ICML 201
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