Adversarial Examples for Evaluating Math Word Problem Solvers (2021.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Existing MWP solvers do not understand language and its relation with numbers, and their accuracy is unclear. |
| Approach: | They propose two methods to generate adversarial attacks to evaluate the robustness of existing MWP solvers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method reduces the accuracy of existing MWP solvers by over 40% on two benchmark datasets. |
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