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Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are known to suffer from noisy inputs. To make models robust, we generate adversarial augmentation samples that attack the model and preserve the source-side semantic meaning at the same time. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Weiting Tan , Shuoyang Ding , Huda Khayrallah , Philipp Koehn

Neural machine translation systems tend to fail on less decent inputs despite its significant efficacy, which may significantly harm the credibility of this systems-fathoming how and when neural-based systems fail in such cases is critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Wei Zou , Shujian Huang , Jun Xie , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

A multilingual tokenizer is a fundamental component of multilingual neural machine translation. It is trained from a multilingual corpus. Since a skewed data distribution is considered to be harmful, a sampling strategy is usually used to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Shiyue Zhang , Vishrav Chaudhary , Naman Goyal , James Cross , Guillaume Wenzek , Mohit Bansal , Francisco Guzman

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

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

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on Web data that might contain spelling errors made by humans. But do they become robust to similar real-world noise? In this paper, we investigate the effect of real-world spelling mistakes on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Amirhossein Aliakbarzadeh , Lucie Flek , Akbar Karimi

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have demonstrated strong state of the art performance on translation tasks where well-formed training and evaluation data are provided, but they remain sensitive to inputs that include errors of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Daniel Li , Te I , Naveen Arivazhagan , Colin Cherry , Dirk Padfield

This paper investigates the robustness of NLP against perturbed word forms. While neural approaches can achieve (almost) human-like accuracy for certain tasks and conditions, they often are sensitive to small changes in the input such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Georg Heigold , Günter Neumann , Josef van Genabith

When training multilingual machine translation (MT) models that can translate to/from multiple languages, we are faced with imbalanced training sets: some languages have much more training data than others. Standard practice is to up-sample…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Xinyi Wang , Yulia Tsvetkov , Graham Neubig

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has achieved significant breakthrough in performance but is known to suffer vulnerability to input perturbations. As real input noise is difficult to predict during training, robustness is a big issue for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Weiwen Xu , Ai Ti Aw , Yang Ding , Kui Wu , Shafiq Joty

Noisy or non-standard input text can cause disastrous mistranslations in most modern Machine Translation (MT) systems, and there has been growing research interest in creating noise-robust MT systems. However, as of yet there are no…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Paul Michel , Graham Neubig

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable results across many language processing tasks, however these methods are highly sensitive to noise and adversarial attacks. We present a regularization based method for limiting network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Yitong Li , Trevor Cohn , Timothy Baldwin

We investigate robustness properties of pre-trained neural models for automatic speech recognition. Real life data in machine learning is usually very noisy and almost never clean, which can be attributed to various factors depending on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Goutham Rajendran , Wei Zou

Machine translation is a popular test bed for research in neural sequence-to-sequence models but despite much recent research, there is still a lack of understanding of these models. Practitioners report performance degradation with large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Myle Ott , Michael Auli , David Grangier , Marc'Aurelio Ranzato

Evaluating on adversarial examples has become a standard procedure to measure robustness of deep learning models. Due to the difficulty of creating white-box adversarial examples for discrete text input, most analyses of the robustness of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Javid Ebrahimi , Daniel Lowd , Dejing Dou

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples formed by applying small carefully chosen perturbations to inputs that cause unexpected classification errors. In this paper, we perform experiments on various adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Andras Rozsa , Manuel Günther , Terrance E. Boult

Analysing translation quality in regards to specific linguistic phenomena has historically been difficult and time-consuming. Neural machine translation has the attractive property that it can produce scores for arbitrary translations, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Rico Sennrich

Existing works have shown that fine-tuned textual transformer models achieve state-of-the-art prediction performances but are also vulnerable to adversarial text perturbations. Traditional adversarial evaluation is often done \textit{only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Cuong Dang , Dung D. Le , Thai Le

Previous studies show that incorporating external information could improve the translation quality of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. However, there are inevitably noises in the external information, severely reducing the benefit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Zaixiang Zheng , Shujian Huang , Zewei Sun , Rongxiang Weng , Xin-Yu Dai , Jiajun Chen