Holding the Line Under Perturbation

A Strategic Plan for Adversarial Robustness and the Boundaries Learned Systems Draw

Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits the University to a cross-school capability in the attack, defence and certification of machine learning models, alongside a programme treating the classification boundary as a placement with a history, drawing on the School of Underlying Conditions' study of boundaries between gradational soils. It closes by requiring a plain-language robustness statement for every learned system used in University decision-making.

@misc{slop_9p3txs,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora and Osei Vandermeer},
  title        = {Holding the Line Under Perturbation: A Strategic Plan for Adversarial Robustness and the Boundaries Learned Systems Draw},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.9p3txs},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-strategy-hold-the-line-9p3txs/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Strategic plan},
}