Minimum Specification Perturbation: Robustness as Distance-to-Falsification in Causal Inference

arXiv:2605.01579 · stat.ME, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-05-02 · Read on arXiv

stat.ME, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-05-02

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Minimum Specification Perturbation — 2× in this paper
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Causal Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Metric: When Can Dropping a Little Data Make a Big Difference?
• Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
• Towards Deep Learning Models Resistant to Adversarial Attacks

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