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Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems are known to degrade when confronted with noisy data, especially when the system is trained only on clean data. In this paper, we show that augmenting training data with sentences containing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Antonios Anastasopoulos , Alison Lui , Toan Nguyen , David Chiang

k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation (kNN-MT) becomes an important research direction of NMT in recent years. Its main idea is to retrieve useful key-value pairs from an additional datastore to modify translations without updating the NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hui Jiang , Ziyao Lu , Fandong Meng , Chulun Zhou , Jie Zhou , Degen Huang , Jinsong Su

Transformers (Vaswani et al., 2017) have brought a remarkable improvement in the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) systems but they could be surprisingly vulnerable to noise. In this work, we try to investigate how noise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Peyman Passban , Puneeth S. M. Saladi , Qun Liu

Machine learning systems based on deep neural networks, being able to produce state-of-the-art results on various perception tasks, have gained mainstream adoption in many applications. However, they are shown to be vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Bo Luo , Yannan Liu , Lingxiao Wei , Qiang Xu

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are sensitive to small perturbations in the input. Robustness to such perturbations is typically measured using translation quality metrics such as BLEU on the noisy input. This paper proposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xing Niu , Prashant Mathur , Georgiana Dinu , Yaser Al-Onaizan

While end-to-end neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved impressive progress, noisy input usually leads models to become fragile and unstable. Generating adversarial examples as the augmented data has been proved to be useful to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Juncheng Wan , Jian Yang , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Zhoujun Li

It has been demonstrated that deep neural networks are prone to noisy examples particular adversarial samples during inference process. The gap between robust deep learning systems in real world applications and vulnerable neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Xinhan Di , Pengqian Yu , Meng Tian

Deep neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable to small perturbations of their inputs, known as adversarial attacks. In this paper, we investigate the vulnerability of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models to adversarial attacks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Sahar Sadrizadeh , Ljiljana Dolamic , Pascal Frossard

Adversarial attacks expose vulnerabilities of deep learning models by introducing minor perturbations to the input, which lead to substantial alterations in the output. Our research focuses on the impact of such adversarial attacks on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Pavel Burnyshev , Elizaveta Kostenok , Alexey Zaytsev

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples where inputs with imperceptible perturbations mislead DNNs to incorrect results. Despite the potential risk they bring, adversarial examples are also valuable for providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chongzhi Zhang , Aishan Liu , Xianglong Liu , Yitao Xu , Hang Yu , Yuqing Ma , Tianlin Li

Neural machine translation (MT) models achieve strong results across a variety of settings, but it is widely believed that they are highly sensitive to "noisy" inputs, such as spelling errors, abbreviations, and other formatting issues. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ben Peters , André F. T. Martins

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has reached a level of maturity to be recognized as the premier method for the translation between different languages and aroused interest in different research areas, including software engineering. A key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Pietro Liguori , Cristina Improta , Simona De Vivo , Roberto Natella , Bojan Cukic , Domenico Cotroneo

Language Models today provide a high accuracy across a large number of downstream tasks. However, they remain susceptible to adversarial attacks, particularly against those where the adversarial examples maintain considerable similarity to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Neel Bhandari , Pin-Yu Chen

Neural Machine Translation models are sensitive to noise in the input texts, such as misspelled words and ungrammatical constructions. Existing robustness techniques generally fail when faced with unseen types of noise and their performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Zhenhao Li , Marek Rei , Lucia Specia

Deep transformer neural network models have improved the predictive accuracy of intelligent text processing systems in the biomedical domain. They have obtained state-of-the-art performance scores on a wide variety of biomedical and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Milad Moradi , Matthias Samwald

Rapid progress in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems over the last few years has been driven primarily towards improving translation quality, and as a secondary focus, improved robustness to input perturbations (e.g. spelling and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Prasanna Parthasarathi , Koustuv Sinha , Joelle Pineau , Adina Williams

Targeted adversarial attacks are widely used to evaluate the robustness of neural machine translation systems. Unfortunately, this paper first identifies a critical issue in the existing settings of NMT targeted adversarial attacks, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Junjie Wu , Lemao Liu , Wei Bi , Dit-Yan Yeung

Exposing diverse subword segmentations to neural machine translation (NMT) models often improves the robustness of machine translation as NMT models can experience various subword candidates. However, the diversification of subword…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jungsoo Park , Mujeen Sung , Jinhyuk Lee , Jaewoo Kang

This paper proposes an approach for applying GANs to NMT. We build a conditional sequence generative adversarial net which comprises of two adversarial sub models, a generator and a discriminator. The generator aims to generate sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Zhen Yang , Wei Chen , Feng Wang , Bo Xu

Given the great success of Deep Neural Networks(DNNs) and the black-box nature of it,the interpretability of these models becomes an important issue.The majority of previous research works on the post-hoc interpretation of a trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Haoyang Li , Xinggang Wang