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TextAttack: A Framework for Adversarial Attacks in Natural Language Processing (arxiv.org)
2 points by jonbaer on Jun 28, 2020 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: Unlike attacks kept in separate code, this toolkit builds them from four swap-in parts: what counts as success, rules to follow, how to reword text, and how to search. It ships 16 published attacks and boosts accuracy and robustness with just a few lines of code.

Abstract · TextAttack: A Framework for Adversarial Attacks, Data Augmentation, and Adversarial Training in NLP

While there has been substantial research using adversarial attacks to analyze NLP models, each attack is implemented in its own code repository. It remains challenging to develop NLP attacks and utilize them to improve model performance. This paper introduces TextAttack, a Python framework for adversarial attacks, data augmentation, and adversarial training in NLP. TextAttack builds attacks from four components: a goal function, a set of constraints, a transformation, and a search method. TextAttack's modular design enables researchers to easily construct attacks from combinations of novel and existing components. TextAttack provides implementations of 16 adversarial attacks from the literature and supports a variety of models and datasets, including BERT and other transformers, and all GLUE tasks. TextAttack also includes data augmentation and adversarial training modules for using components of adversarial attacks to improve model accuracy and robustness. TextAttack is democratizing NLP: anyone can try data augmentation and adversarial training on any model or dataset, with just a few lines of code. Code and tutorials are available at https://github.com/QData/TextAttack.

John X. Morris, Eli Lifland, Jin Yong Yoo, Jake Grigsby, Di Jin, Yanjun Qi
arXiv:2005.05909 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · submitted Apr 29, 2020 · updated Oct 5, 2020
abstract · pdf · html · 6 pages. More details are shared at https://github.com/QData/TextAttack

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