English
Related papers

Related papers: T3: Tree-Autoencoder Constrained Adversarial Text …

200 papers

Autoencoder can give rise to an appropriate latent representation of the input data, however, the representation which is solely based on the intrinsic property of the input data, is usually inferior to express some semantic information. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Yurui Ming , Cuihuan Du , Chin-Teng Lin

Research shows that natural language processing models are generally considered to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks; but recent work has drawn attention to the issue of validating these adversarial inputs against certain criteria (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Maximilian Mozes , Max Bartolo , Pontus Stenetorp , Bennett Kleinberg , Lewis D. Griffin

Adversarial examples in NLP are receiving increasing research attention. One line of investigation is the generation of word-level adversarial examples against fine-tuned Transformer models that preserve naturalness and grammaticality.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Maximilian Mozes , Bennett Kleinberg , Lewis D. Griffin

We study an important and challenging task of attacking natural language processing models in a hard label black box setting. We propose a decision-based attack strategy that crafts high quality adversarial examples on text classification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Rishabh Maheshwary , Saket Maheshwary , Vikram Pudi

With the rapid proliferation of Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially Large Language Models (LLMs), generating adversarial examples to jailbreak LLMs remains a key challenge for understanding model vulnerabilities and improving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Huizhen Shu , Xuying Li , Qirui Wang , Yuji Kosuga , Mengqiu Tian , Zhuo Li

Warning: this paper contains content that maybe offensive or upsetting. Recent research in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has advanced the development of various toxicity detection models with the intention of identifying and mitigating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Ninareh Mehrabi , Ahmad Beirami , Fred Morstatter , Aram Galstyan

In this paper, we propose an optimization-based adversarial attack against Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models. First, we propose an optimization problem to generate adversarial examples that are semantically similar to the original…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Sahar Sadrizadeh , Clément Barbier , Ljiljana Dolamic , Pascal Frossard

Many machine learning models can be attacked with adversarial examples, i.e. inputs close to correctly classified examples that are classified incorrectly. However, most research on adversarial attacks to date is limited to vectorial data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Benjamin Paaßen

Adversarial attacks and backdoor attacks are two common security threats that hang over deep learning. Both of them harness task-irrelevant features of data in their implementation. Text style is a feature that is naturally irrelevant to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Fanchao Qi , Yangyi Chen , Xurui Zhang , Mukai Li , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

The rise of text-to-image (T2I) models has enabled the synthesis of photorealistic human portraits, raising serious concerns about identity misuse and the robustness of AIGC detectors. In this work, we propose an automated adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Run Hao , Peng Ying

DNN-based language models excel across various NLP tasks but remain highly vulnerable to textual adversarial attacks. While adversarial text generation is crucial for NLP security, explainability, evaluation, and data augmentation, related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xi Cao , Yuan Sun , Jiajun Li , Quzong Gesang , Nuo Qun , Tashi Nyima

Recent work shows that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Much work studies adversarial example generation, while very little work focuses on more critical adversarial defense. Existing adversarial detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Bin Zhu , Zhaoquan Gu , Le Wang , Zhihong Tian

Deep neural networks have been proven to be vulnerable to adversarial examples and various methods have been proposed to defend against adversarial attacks for natural language processing tasks. However, previous defense methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Fangyuan Zhang , Huichi Zhou , Shuangjiao Li , Hongtao Wang

Adversarial attacks pose significant challenges to deep neural networks (DNNs) such as Transformer models in natural language processing (NLP). This paper introduces a novel defense strategy, called GenFighter, which enhances adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Md Athikul Islam , Edoardo Serra , Sushil Jajodia

The adversarial attacks against deep neural networks on computer vision tasks have spawned many new technologies that help protect models from avoiding false predictions. Recently, word-level adversarial attacks on deep models of Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zhaoyang Wang , Hongtao Wang

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems are used in various applications. However, it has been shown that they are vulnerable to very small perturbations of their inputs, known as adversarial attacks. In this paper, we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Sahar Sadrizadeh , AmirHossein Dabiri Aghdam , Ljiljana Dolamic , Pascal Frossard

We design, implement, and evaluate adversarial decoding, a new, generic text generation technique that produces readable documents for different adversarial objectives. Prior methods either produce easily detectable gibberish, or cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Collin Zhang , Tingwei Zhang , Vitaly Shmatikov

Natural language processing (NLP) models may leak private information in different ways, including membership inference, reconstruction or attribute inference attacks. Sensitive information may not be explicit in the text, but hidden in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Pedro Faustini , Shakila Mahjabin Tonni , Annabelle McIver , Qiongkai Xu , Mark Dras

In recent years, text generation tools utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) have occasionally been misused across various domains, such as generating student reports or creative writings. This issue prompts plagiarism detection services…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Ahmed K. Kadhim , Lei Jiao , Rishad Shafik , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

This paper presents a framework which enables a user to more easily make corrections to adversarial texts. While attack algorithms have been demonstrated to automatically build adversaries, changes made by the algorithms can often have poor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Brandon Laughlin , Christopher Collins , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Khalil El-Khatib