Universal Adversarial Triggers for Attacking and Analyzing NLP (D19-1)

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Challenge: Using adversarial triggers, a model can produce a specific prediction . adversarial attacks are useful for evaluation and interpretation .
Approach: They propose a gradient-guided search over tokens that finds short adversarial triggers that successfully trigger the target prediction.
Outcome: The proposed algorithm finds short trigger sequences that successfully trigger the target prediction.

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