Extend Adversarial Policy Against Neural Machine Translation via Unknown Token

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Main Authors: Zou, Wei, Huang, Shujian, Chen, Jiajun
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author Zou, Wei
Huang, Shujian
Chen, Jiajun
author_facet Zou, Wei
Huang, Shujian
Chen, Jiajun
contents Generating adversarial examples contributes to mainstream neural machine translation~(NMT) robustness. However, popular adversarial policies are apt for fixed tokenization, hindering its efficacy for common character perturbations involving versatile tokenization. Based on existing adversarial generation via reinforcement learning~(RL), we propose the `DexChar policy' that introduces character perturbations for the existing mainstream adversarial policy based on token substitution. Furthermore, we improve the self-supervised matching that provides feedback in RL to cater to the semantic constraints required during training adversaries. Experiments show that our method is compatible with the scenario where baseline adversaries fail, and can generate high-efficiency adversarial examples for analysis and optimization of the system.
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spellingShingle Extend Adversarial Policy Against Neural Machine Translation via Unknown Token
Zou, Wei
Huang, Shujian
Chen, Jiajun
Computation and Language
Generating adversarial examples contributes to mainstream neural machine translation~(NMT) robustness. However, popular adversarial policies are apt for fixed tokenization, hindering its efficacy for common character perturbations involving versatile tokenization. Based on existing adversarial generation via reinforcement learning~(RL), we propose the `DexChar policy' that introduces character perturbations for the existing mainstream adversarial policy based on token substitution. Furthermore, we improve the self-supervised matching that provides feedback in RL to cater to the semantic constraints required during training adversaries. Experiments show that our method is compatible with the scenario where baseline adversaries fail, and can generate high-efficiency adversarial examples for analysis and optimization of the system.
title Extend Adversarial Policy Against Neural Machine Translation via Unknown Token
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12183