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author = "Gai{\'n}ski, Piotr and
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pages = "2038--2048",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Step by Step Loss Goes Very Far: Multi-Step Quantization for Adversarial Text Attacks
%A Gaiński, Piotr
%A Bałazy, Klaudia
%Y Vlachos, Andreas
%Y Augenstein, Isabelle
%S Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
%D 2023
%8 May
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Dubrovnik, Croatia
%F gainski-balazy-2023-step
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Markdown (Informal)
[Step by Step Loss Goes Very Far: Multi-Step Quantization for Adversarial Text Attacks](https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.149/) (Gaiński & Bałazy, EACL 2023)
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