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The vulnerability of deep neural networks to adversarial attacks has been widely demonstrated (e.g., adversarial example attacks). Traditional attacks perform unstructured pixel-wise perturbation to fool the classifier. An alternative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Shuo Wang , Surya Nepal , Carsten Rudolph , Marthie Grobler , Shangyu Chen , Tianle Chen

Sentence encoders play a pivotal role in various NLP tasks; hence, an accurate evaluation of their compositional properties is paramount. However, existing evaluation methods predominantly focus on goal task-specific performance. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Naman Bansal , Yash mahajan , Sanjeev Sinha , Santu Karmaker

Autoregressive LLMs perform well on relational tasks that require linking entities via relational words (e.g., father/son, friend), but it is unclear whether they learn the logical semantics of such relations (e.g., symmetry and inversion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yihua Zhu , Qianying Liu , Jiaxin Wang , Fei Cheng , Chaoran Liu , Akiko Aizawa , Sadao Kurohashi , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

We consider the case of a domain expert who wishes to explore the extent to which a particular idea is expressed in a text collection. We propose the task of semantically matching the idea, expressed as a natural language proposition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Lucy H. Lin , Scott Miles , Noah A. Smith

Modeling semantic relevance has always been a challenging and critical task in natural language processing. In recent years, with the emergence of massive amounts of annotated data, it has become feasible to train complex models, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Min Li , Chun Yuan

Deep neural networks have been shown to exhibit an intriguing vulnerability to adversarial input images corrupted with imperceptible perturbations. However, the majority of adversarial attacks assume global, fine-grained control over the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Ameya Joshi , Amitangshu Mukherjee , Soumik Sarkar , Chinmay Hegde

We explore semantic correspondence estimation through the lens of unsupervised learning. We thoroughly evaluate several recently proposed unsupervised methods across multiple challenging datasets using a standardized evaluation protocol…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Mehmet Aygün , Oisin Mac Aodha

Natural Language Processing (NLP) models based on Machine Learning (ML) are susceptible to adversarial attacks -- malicious algorithms that imperceptibly modify input text to force models into making incorrect predictions. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Salijona Dyrmishi , Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy

Dense correspondence across semantically related images has been extensively studied, but still faces two challenges: 1) large variations in appearance, scale and pose exist even for objects from the same category, and 2) labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Taihong Xiao , Sifei Liu , Shalini De Mello , Zhiding Yu , Jan Kautz , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Sentence pair modeling is critical for many NLP tasks, such as paraphrase identification, semantic textual similarity, and natural language inference. Most state-of-the-art neural models for these tasks rely on pretrained word embedding and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Wuwei Lan , Wei Xu

Most current methods generate adversarial examples with the $L_p$ norm specification. As a result, many defense methods utilize this property to eliminate the impact of such attacking algorithms. In this paper,we instead introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 MingWei Zhou , Xiaobing Pei

The identification of semantic relations between terms within texts is a fundamental task in Natural Language Processing which can support applications requiring a lightweight semantic interpretation model. Currently, semantic relation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Vivian S. Silva , Manuela Hürliman , Brian Davis , Siegfried Handschuh , André Freitas

Many NLP tasks including machine comprehension, answer selection and text entailment require the comparison between sequences. Matching the important units between sequences is a key to solve these problems. In this paper, we present a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Shuohang Wang , Jing Jiang

Adversarial attacks on Natural Language Processing (NLP) models expose vulnerabilities by introducing subtle perturbations to input text, often leading to misclassification while maintaining human readability. Existing methods typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Hetvi Waghela , Jaydip Sen , Sneha Rakshit , Subhasis Dasgupta

An interesting line of research in natural language processing (NLP) aims to incorporate linguistic typology to bridge linguistic diversity and assist the research of low-resource languages. While most works construct linguistic similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Haotian Ye , Yihong Liu , Hinrich Schütze

Today text classification models have been widely used. However, these classifiers are found to be easily fooled by adversarial examples. Fortunately, standard attacking methods generate adversarial texts in a pair-wise way, that is, an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Yankun Ren , Jianbin Lin , Siliang Tang , Jun Zhou , Shuang Yang , Yuan Qi , Xiang Ren

In this paper, we pay attention to the issue which is usually overlooked, i.e., \textit{similarity should be determined from different perspectives}. To explore this issue, we release a Multi-Perspective Text Similarity (MPTS) dataset, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Weijie Liu , Tao Zhu , Weiquan Mao , Zhe Zhao , Weigang Guo , Xuefeng Yang , Qi Ju

Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly employ alignment techniques to prevent harmful outputs. Despite these safeguards, attackers can circumvent them by crafting prompts that induce LLMs to generate harmful content. Current methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jiawei Lian , Jianhong Pan , Lefan Wang , Yi Wang , Shaohui Mei , Lap-Pui Chau

Fueled by massive amounts of data, models produced by machine-learning (ML) algorithms, especially deep neural networks, are being used in diverse domains where trustworthiness is a concern, including automotive systems, finance, health…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Tommaso Dreossi , Somesh Jha , Sanjit A. Seshia

Though language model text embeddings have revolutionized NLP research, their ability to capture high-level semantic information, such as relations between entities in text, is limited. In this paper, we propose a novel contrastive learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Christos Theodoropoulos , James Henderson , Andrei C. Coman , Marie-Francine Moens