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allennlp.interpret.attackers.attacker

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Attacker

class Attacker(Registrable):
 | def __init__(self, predictor: Predictor) -> None

An Attacker will modify an input (e.g., add or delete tokens) to try to change an AllenNLP Predictor's output in a desired manner (e.g., make it incorrect).

initialize

class Attacker(Registrable):
 | ...
 | def initialize(self)

Initializes any components of the Attacker that are expensive to compute, so that they are not created on init(). Default implementation is pass.

attack_from_json

class Attacker(Registrable):
 | ...
 | def attack_from_json(
 |     self,
 |     inputs: JsonDict,
 |     input_field_to_attack: str,
 |     grad_input_field: str,
 |     ignore_tokens: List[str],
 |     target: JsonDict
 | ) -> JsonDict

This function finds a modification to the input text that would change the model's prediction in some desired manner (e.g., an adversarial attack).

Parameters

  • inputs : JsonDict
    The input you want to attack (the same as the argument to a Predictor, e.g., predict_json()).
  • input_field_to_attack : str
    The key in the inputs JsonDict you want to attack, e.g., tokens.
  • grad_input_field : str
    The field in the gradients dictionary that contains the input gradients. For example, grad_input_1 will be the field for single input tasks. See get_gradients() in Predictor for more information on field names.
  • target : JsonDict
    If given, this is a targeted attack, trying to change the prediction to a particular value, instead of just changing it from its original prediction. Subclasses are not required to accept this argument, as not all attacks make sense as targeted attacks. Perhaps that means we should make the API more crisp, but adding another class is not worth it.

Returns

  • reduced_input : JsonDict
    Contains the final, sanitized input after adversarial modification.