The Price of the Bottleneck: A Pre-Registered, Multi-Domain Deployment Characterization of a Deterministic Edge Decision Token
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Authors
- Randolph James Ferlic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2367-5205)
- Kimberly Kate Ferlic (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3012-3430)
Institutions
- EP Analytics (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22838117
- Primary Topic
- Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
- Type
- preprint