Glossary · Optimization and failure dynamics
Adversary regime
Who chooses the inputs a falsification search targets. Against nature (ordinary users), weight the search by plausibility; against a strategic adversary (jailbreakers, injectors), drop the weight, because the existence of a worst case is what matters.
Also called: adversary regimes
Defined in
Handbook · Validity under pressureFalsification and failure regionsEstimation counts failures; falsification finds them. Search for the most likely breaks and map the region, not the anecdote.Related terms
- Falsification
- The search for inputs and disturbances that make a system, or its evaluator, violate the specification: can it fail at all, and where? A found failure is evidence of existence, not of frequency.
Where it comes up
- CrosswalkHandbook · Reference