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Generative adversarial imitation learning (GAIL) is a model-free algorithm that has been shown to provide strong results in imitating complex behaviors in high-dimensional environments. In this paper, we utilize the GAIL model for text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Pratyush Muthukumar , Karishma Muthukumar , Deepan Muthirayan , Pramod Khargonekar

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has achieved great success in generating realistic (real-valued) synthetic data. However, convergence issues and difficulties dealing with discrete data hinder the applicability of GAN to text. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-21 Yizhe Zhang , Zhe Gan , Kai Fan , Zhi Chen , Ricardo Henao , Dinghan Shen , Lawrence Carin

The Transformer translation model (Vaswani et al., 2017) based on a multi-head attention mechanism can be computed effectively in parallel and has significantly pushed forward the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Though…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Hongfei Xu , Josef van Genabith , Deyi Xiong , Qiuhui Liu , Jingyi Zhang

Recent studies have highlighted adversarial examples as ubiquitous threats to the deep neural network (DNN) based speech recognition systems. In this work, we present a U-Net based attention model, U-Net$_{At}$, to enhance adversarial…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Chao-Han Huck Yang , Jun Qi , Pin-Yu Chen , Xiaoli Ma , Chin-Hui Lee

Large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, demonstrate impressive generalization but remain highly vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). Previous work has explored robust text prompts through adversarial training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiaojun Jia , Sensen Gao , Simeng Qin , Ke Ma , Xinfeng Li , Yihao Huang , Wei Dong , Yang Liu , Xiaochun Cao

Traditional adversarial examples are typically generated by adding perturbation noise to the input image within a small matrix norm. In practice, un-restricted adversarial attack has raised great concern and presented a new threat to the AI…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Wenzhao Xiang , Chang Liu , Shibao Zheng

We propose a simple modification to existing neural machine translation (NMT) models that enables using a single universal model to translate between multiple languages while allowing for language specific parameterization, and that can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Emmanouil Antonios Platanios , Mrinmaya Sachan , Graham Neubig , Tom Mitchell

NLP models are shown to suffer from robustness issues, i.e., a model's prediction can be easily changed under small perturbations to the input. In this work, we present a Controlled Adversarial Text Generation (CAT-Gen) model that, given an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Tianlu Wang , Xuezhi Wang , Yao Qin , Ben Packer , Kang Li , Jilin Chen , Alex Beutel , Ed Chi

Large pre-trained language representation models (LMs) have recently collected a huge number of successes in many NLP tasks. In 2018 BERT, and later its successors (e.g. RoBERTa), obtained state-of-the-art results in classical benchmark…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Marco Di Giovanni , Marco Brambilla

Recent work has shown that a multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) model can be used to judge how well a sentence paraphrases another sentence in the same language (Thompson and Post, 2020); however, attempting to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Brian Thompson , Matt Post

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a promising approach for text generation that, unlike traditional language models (LM), does not suffer from the problem of ``exposure bias''. However, A major hurdle for understanding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Guy Tevet , Gavriel Habib , Vered Shwartz , Jonathan Berant

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable breakthroughs in reasoning, yet continue to struggle with hallucinations, logical errors, and inability to self-correct during complex multi-step tasks. Current approaches like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Lingrui Mei , Shenghua Liu , Yiwei Wang , Baolong Bi , Yuyao Ge , Jun Wan , Yurong Wu , Xueqi Cheng

Most machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which poses security concerns on these models. Adversarial examples are crafted by applying subtle but intentionally worst-case modifications to examples from the dataset,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xingyang Nie , Guojie Xiao , Su Pan , Biao Wang , Huilin Ge , Tao Fang

While a substantial body of prior work has explored adversarial example generation for natural language understanding tasks, these examples are often unrealistic and diverge from the real-world data distributions. In this work, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Saadia Gabriel , Hamid Palangi , Yejin Choi

In this paper, drawing intuition from the Turing test, we propose using adversarial training for open-domain dialogue generation: the system is trained to produce sequences that are indistinguishable from human-generated dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Jiwei Li , Will Monroe , Tianlin Shi , Sébastien Jean , Alan Ritter , Dan Jurafsky

Generating high-quality and interpretable adversarial examples in the text domain is a much more daunting task than it is in the image domain. This is due partly to the discrete nature of text, partly to the problem of ensuring that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Samuel Barham , Soheil Feizi

Crafting adversarial examples has become an important technique to evaluate the robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, most existing works focus on attacking the image classification problem since its input space is continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Minhao Cheng , Jinfeng Yi , Pin-Yu Chen , Huan Zhang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Generating coherent and cohesive long-form texts is a challenging task. Previous works relied on large amounts of human-generated texts to train neural language models. However, few attempted to explicitly improve neural language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Woon Sang Cho , Pengchuan Zhang , Yizhe Zhang , Xiujun Li , Michel Galley , Chris Brockett , Mengdi Wang , Jianfeng Gao

Non-autoregressive generation (NAG) has recently attracted great attention due to its fast inference speed. However, the generation quality of existing NAG models still lags behind their autoregressive counterparts. In this work, we show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Yixuan Su , Deng Cai , Yan Wang , David Vandyke , Simon Baker , Piji Li , Nigel Collier