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An attentional mechanism has lately been used to improve neural machine translation (NMT) by selectively focusing on parts of the source sentence during translation. However, there has been little work exploring useful architectures for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Minh-Thang Luong , Hieu Pham , Christopher D. Manning

Past work has long recognized the important role of context in guiding how humans search their memory. While context-based memory models can explain many memory phenomena, it remains unclear why humans develop such architectures over…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-24 Nikolaus Salvatore , Qiong Zhang

Despite recent breakthroughs in the applications of deep neural networks, one setting that presents a persistent challenge is that of "one-shot learning." Traditional gradient-based networks require a lot of data to learn, often through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Adam Santoro , Sergey Bartunov , Matthew Botvinick , Daan Wierstra , Timothy Lillicrap

Attention mechanism has enhanced state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation (NMT) by jointly learning to align and translate. It tends to ignore past alignment information, however, which often leads to over-translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Zhaopeng Tu , Zhengdong Lu , Yang Liu , Xiaohua Liu , Hang Li

There has been relatively little attention to incorporating linguistic prior to neural machine translation. Much of the previous work was further constrained to considering linguistic prior on the source side. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Akiko Eriguchi , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka , Kyunghyun Cho

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have represented for years the state of the art in neural machine translation. Recently, new architectures have been proposed, which can leverage parallel computation on GPUs better than classical RNNs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Mattia Antonino Di Gangi , Marcello Federico

Neural machine translation is a recently proposed approach to machine translation. Unlike the traditional statistical machine translation, the neural machine translation aims at building a single neural network that can be jointly tuned to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Dzmitry Bahdanau , Kyunghyun Cho , Yoshua Bengio

The dominant neural machine translation (NMT) models apply unified attentional encoder-decoder neural networks for translation. Traditionally, the NMT decoders adopt recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to perform translation in a left-toright…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Xiangwen Zhang , Jinsong Su , Yue Qin , Yang Liu , Rongrong Ji , Hongji Wang

Though early successes of Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems are attributed in part to the explicit modelling of the interaction between any two source and target units, e.g., alignment, the recent Neural Machine Translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Yanyang Li , Qiang Wang , Tong Xiao , Tongran Liu , Jingbo Zhu

Conventional Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models benefit from the training with an additional agent, e.g., dual learning, and bidirectional decoding with one agent decoding from left to right and the other decoding in the opposite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Tianchi Bi , Hao Xiong , Zhongjun He , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Augmenting a neural network with memory that can grow without growing the number of trained parameters is a recent powerful concept with many exciting applications. We propose a design of memory augmented neural networks (MANNs) called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Shiv Shankar , Sunita Sarawagi

Conventional retrieval-augmented neural machine translation (RANMT) systems leverage bilingual corpora, e.g., translation memories (TMs). Yet, in many settings, monolingual corpora in the target language are often available. This work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Maxime Bouthors , Josep Crego , François Yvon

We present a memory augmented neural network for natural language understanding: Neural Semantic Encoders. NSE is equipped with a novel memory update rule and has a variable sized encoding memory that evolves over time and maintains the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Tsendsuren Munkhdalai , Hong Yu

Conventional attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) conducts dynamic alignment in generating the target sentence. By repeatedly reading the representation of source sentence, which keeps fixed after generated by the encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Fandong Meng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qun Liu

Attention-based Encoder-Decoder has the effective architecture for neural machine translation (NMT), which typically relies on recurrent neural networks (RNN) to build the blocks that will be lately called by attentive reader during the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Hao Xiong , Zhongjun He , Xiaoguang Hu , Hua Wu

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have provably enhanced the state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation (NMT) with their capability in modeling complex functions and capturing complex linguistic structures. However NMT systems with deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Mingxuan Wang , Zhengdong Lu , Jie Zhou , Qun Liu

It is intuitive that semantic representations can be useful for machine translation, mainly because they can help in enforcing meaning preservation and handling data sparsity (many sentences correspond to one meaning) of machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Linfeng Song , Daniel Gildea , Yue Zhang , Zhiguo Wang , Jinsong Su

Neural encoder-decoder models of machine translation have achieved impressive results, rivalling traditional translation models. However their modelling formulation is overly simplistic, and omits several key inductive biases built into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Trevor Cohn , Cong Duy Vu Hoang , Ekaterina Vymolova , Kaisheng Yao , Chris Dyer , Gholamreza Haffari

Intelligence necessitates memory. Without memory, humans fail to perform various nontrivial tasks such as reading novels, playing games or solving maths. As the ultimate goal of machine learning is to derive intelligent systems that learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Hung Le

We propose to enhance the RNN decoder in a neural machine translator (NMT) with external memory, as a natural but powerful extension to the state in the decoding RNN. This memory-enhanced RNN decoder is called \textsc{MemDec}. At each time…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-08 Mingxuan Wang , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qun Liu