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Summary

This PR adds Bad Characters: Imperceptible NLP attack. Full details can be found in textattack.attack_recipes.ImperceptibleRecipe.

Additions

  • Added ImperceptibleRecipe recipe as textattack.attack_recipes.ImperceptibleRecipe.
  • Added WordSwapInvisibleCharacters, WordSwapDeletions, WordSwapReorderings in textattack.transformations
  • Added ImperceptibleDE in textattack.search_methods
  • Added Toxic, Mnli, Emotion, Ner, UnnormalizedClassification, UnprocessedClassification, MaximizeBleu, MaximizeLevenshtein in textattack.goal_functions
  • Added IBMMaxToxicWrapper, PipelineModelWrapper, FairseqMnliWrapper, FairseqTranslationWrapper, EmotionWrapper in textattack.models.wrappers

Changes

  • Modified attack.py to support ImperceptibleDE. Specifically, helper functions from the imperceptible transformations are made available in the search method.
  • Modified WordSwapHomoglyphSwap in textattack.transformations to support a wider range of homoglyphs.

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  • The title of your pull request should be a summary of its contribution.
  • Please write detailed description of what parts have been newly added and what parts have been modified. Please also explain why certain changes were made.
  • If your pull request addresses an issue, please mention the issue number in the pull request description to make sure they are linked (and people consulting the issue know you are working on it)
  • To indicate a work in progress please mark it as a draft on Github.
  • [ ] Make sure existing tests pass.
  • [ ] Add relevant tests. No quality testing = no merge.
  • [ ] All public methods must have informative docstrings that work nicely with sphinx. For new modules/files, please add/modify the appropriate .rst file in TextAttack/docs/apidoc.'

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