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Published at October 30ProTransformer: Robustify Transformers via Plug-and-Play Paradigm
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Released Date: October 30, 2024
Authors: Zhichao Hou1, Weizhi Gao1, Yuchen Shen2, Feiyi Wang3, Xiaorui Liu1
Aff.: 1North Carolina State University; 2Carnegie Mellon University; 3Oak Ridge National Laboratory

| Textfooler | TextBugger | DeepWordBug | PWWS | ||||||
| Model | Clean% | Aua% | ASR% | AUA% | ASR% | AUA% | ASR% | AUA% | ASR% |
| ALBERT | 93.0 | 20.6 | 77.9 | 26.1 | 71.9 | 38.9 | 58.2 | 35.9 | 61.4 |
| Pro-ALBERT (MCP) (Ours) | 93.8 | 48.9 | 47.3 | 41.8 | 55.3 | 59.5 | 35.9 | 63.1 | 32.0 |
| DistilBERT | 93.5 | 13.2 | 85.9 | 33.6 | 63.4 | 30.0 | 67.9 | 36.5 | 61.0 |
| Pro-DistilBERT (MCP) (Ours) | 93.9 | 29.3 | 68.5 | 48.7 | 47.9 | 34.3 | 63.1 | 50.5 | 45.6 |
| RoBERTa | 93.4 | 13.0 | 86.1 | 32.5 | 64.5 | 41.2 | 55.9 | 34.0 | 63.6 |
| Pro-RoBERTa (MCP) (Ours) | 93.7 | 24.4 | 73.7 | 34.3 | 62.8 | 45.5 | 51.5 | 39.4 | 57.5 |
| BERT | 94.2 | 19.7 | 78.9 | 31.7 | 67.5 | 37.5 | 59.8 | 43.1 | 53.8 |
| + FreeLB | 94.2 | 38.0 | 59.5 | 42.8 | 55.5 | 56.1 | 40.9 | 57.0 | 39.9 |
| + PGD | 94.1 | 36.8 | 61.7 | 40.5 | 57.1 | 47.6 | 49.7 | 48.7 | 48.6 |
| + MixADA | 94.3 | 35.6 | 62.4 | 35.4 | 62.9 | 38.2 | 50.5 | 46.8 | 50.4 |
| + TA-VAT | 94.4 | 36.2 | 61.8 | 39.2 | 58.2 | 49.5 | 48.1 | 47.0 | 50.7 |
| + AT | 94.1 | 42.1 | 54.8 | 56.1 | 39.4 | 42.4 | 54.1 | 62.6 | 32.5 |
| Pro-BERT () (Ours) | 94.2 | 23.8 | 74.5 | 43.8 | 53.0 | 48.7 | 47.8 | 46.5 | 50.1 |
| Pro-BERT (Huber) (Ours) | 94.2 | 24.2 | 74.0 | 43.7 | 52.9 | 46.0 | 50.5 | 48.4 | 47.9 |
| Pro-BERT (MCP) (Ours) | 93.2 | 39.2 | 57.7 | 48.3 | 48.5 | 51.8 | 43.8 | 56.2 | 39.2 |
| Pro-BERT (MCP) + AT (Ours) | 94.0 | 56.8 | 38.9 | 60.7 | 35.1 | 61.0 | 34.1 | 68.8 | 25.7 |