Curvature Under Attack in hZACH-ViT: Gauge Symmetry, Boundary Saturation, and Adversarial Failure

arXiv:2610.00680 · cs.LG, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Robustness — 10× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Embeddings — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Attacks — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Examples — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adversarial Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Few-Shot Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• hZACH-ViT: Curved Latent Geometry for Compact Vision Transformers in Low-Data Medical Imaging
• ZACH-ViT: Regime-Dependent Inductive Bias in Compact Vision Transformers for Medical Imaging

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