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Main Author: Lin, Hender
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06648
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contents Standard NLP benchmarks often fail to capture vulnerabilities stemming from dataset artifacts and spurious correlations. Contrast sets address this gap by challenging models near decision boundaries but are traditionally labor-intensive to create and limited in diversity. This study leverages large language models to automate the generation of diverse contrast sets. Using the SNLI dataset, we created a 3,000-example contrast set to evaluate and improve model robustness. Fine-tuning on these contrast sets enhanced performance on systematically perturbed examples, maintained standard test accuracy, and modestly improved generalization to novel perturbations. This automated approach offers a scalable solution for evaluating and improving NLP models, addressing systematic generalization challenges, and advancing robustness in real-world applications.
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spellingShingle Enhancing NLP Robustness and Generalization through LLM-Generated Contrast Sets: A Scalable Framework for Systematic Evaluation and Adversarial Training
Lin, Hender
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Standard NLP benchmarks often fail to capture vulnerabilities stemming from dataset artifacts and spurious correlations. Contrast sets address this gap by challenging models near decision boundaries but are traditionally labor-intensive to create and limited in diversity. This study leverages large language models to automate the generation of diverse contrast sets. Using the SNLI dataset, we created a 3,000-example contrast set to evaluate and improve model robustness. Fine-tuning on these contrast sets enhanced performance on systematically perturbed examples, maintained standard test accuracy, and modestly improved generalization to novel perturbations. This automated approach offers a scalable solution for evaluating and improving NLP models, addressing systematic generalization challenges, and advancing robustness in real-world applications.
title Enhancing NLP Robustness and Generalization through LLM-Generated Contrast Sets: A Scalable Framework for Systematic Evaluation and Adversarial Training
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06648