Challenge: Existing studies have focused on adversarial defenses against pretrained language models.
Approach: They propose an adversarial defensing algorithm that inserts tokens into input sequences . they show an improvement in accuracy between 3.2 and 11.1 absolute points .
Outcome: The proposed algorithm improves model accuracy on clean and polluted inputs compared with state-of-the-art models .

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