Adversarial attack and defense technologies in natural language processing: A survey

S Qiu, Q Liu, S Zhou, W Huang - Neurocomputing, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, the adversarial attack and defense technology has made remarkable
achievements and has been widely applied in the computer vision field, promoting its rapid …

AI robustness: a human-centered perspective on technological challenges and opportunities

A Tocchetti, L Corti, A Balayn, M Yurrita… - ACM Computing …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Despite the impressive performance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, their robustness
remains elusive and constitutes a key issue that impedes large-scale adoption. Besides …

Better robustness by more coverage: Adversarial training with mixup augmentation for robust fine-tuning

C Si, Z Zhang, F Qi, Z Liu, Y Wang, Q Liu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Pretrained language models (PLMs) perform poorly under adversarial attacks. To improve
the adversarial robustness, adversarial data augmentation (ADA) has been widely adopted …

Searching for an effective defender: Benchmarking defense against adversarial word substitution

Z Li, J Xu, J Zeng, L Li, X Zheng, Q Zhang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to intentionally crafted
adversarial examples, and various methods have been proposed to defend against …

A closer look into transformer-based code intelligence through code transformation: Challenges and opportunities

Y Li, S Qi, C Gao, Y Peng, D Lo, Z Xu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Transformer-based models have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in many
intelligent coding tasks such as code comment generation and code completion. Previous …

[PDF][PDF] Defense against synonym substitution-based adversarial attacks via Dirichlet neighborhood ensemble

Y Zhou, X Zheng, CJ Hsieh, KW Chang… - Association for …, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Although deep neural networks have achieved prominent performance on many NLP tasks,
they are vulnerable to adversarial examples. We propose Dirichlet Neighborhood Ensemble …

Towards a robust deep neural network against adversarial texts: A survey

W Wang, R Wang, L Wang, Z Wang… - ieee transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various tasks (eg,
image classification, speech recognition, and natural language processing (NLP)). However …

Certified robustness to text adversarial attacks by randomized [mask]

J Zeng, J Xu, X Zheng, X Huang - Computational Linguistics, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
Very recently, few certified defense methods have been developed to provably guarantee
the robustness of a text classifier to adversarial synonym substitutions. However, all the …

Multi-granular Adversarial Attacks against Black-box Neural Ranking Models

YA Liu, R Zhang, J Guo, M de Rijke, Y Fan… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Adversarial ranking attacks have gained increasing attention due to their success in probing
vulnerabilities, and, hence, enhancing the robustness, of neural ranking models …

To augment or not to augment? A comparative study on text augmentation techniques for low-resource NLP

GG Şahin - Computational Linguistics, 2022 - direct.mit.edu
Data-hungry deep neural networks have established themselves as the de facto standard for
many NLP tasks, including the traditional sequence tagging ones. Despite their state-of-the …