This repository is deprecated. Check out trickster library and the "Evading classifiers in discrete domains with provable optimality guarantees" paper for an evolution and a more mature version of this approach to generating adversarial examples.
This is a proof of concept aiming at producing "imperceptible" adversarial examples for text classifiers.
For instance, this are some adversarial examples produced by this code for a classifier of a tweet author's gender based on the tweet's text:
You need Python 3, and all system dependencies possibly required by
pip install -r requirements.txtpython -m spacy download enparaphrase.py)To train using default parameters simply run
python run_training.pyBy default will check for the CSV data set at ./data/twitter_gender_data.csv, and save the model weights to ./data/model.dat.
Should attain about 66% accuracy on validation data set for gender recognition.
This model uses Kaggle Twitter User Gender Classification data.
To run the adversarial crafting script:
python run_demo.pySuccess rate for crafting the adversarial example should be about 17%.
By default the script will write the crafted examples into ./data/adversarial_texts.csv.
This module is rather reusable, although not immensely useful for anything practical. It provides a function that "paraphrases" a text by replacing some words with their WordNet synonyms, sorting by GloVe similarity between the synonym and the original context window. Relies on SpaCy and NLTK.
Example of paraphrase:
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