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Fine-tuning multilingual sequence-to-sequence large language models (msLLMs) has shown promise in developing neural machine translation (NMT) systems for low-resource languages (LRLs). However, conventional single-stage fine-tuning methods…

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Despite impressive progress in high-resource settings, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) still struggles in low-resource and out-of-domain scenarios, often failing to match the quality of phrase-based translation. We propose a novel…

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Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims at boosting the overall performance of each individual task by leveraging useful information contained in multiple related tasks. It has shown great success in natural language processing (NLP). Currently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jianquan Li , Xiaokang Liu , Wenpeng Yin , Min Yang , Liqun Ma , Yaohong Jin

To efficiently select optimal dataset combinations for enhancing multi-task learning (MTL) performance in large language models, we proposed a novel framework that leverages a neural network to predict the best dataset combinations. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zaifu Zhan , Rui Zhang

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) enables one system to translate sentences from multiple source languages to multiple target languages, greatly reducing deployment costs compared with conventional bilingual systems. The MNMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Akiko Eriguchi , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Hany Hassan Awadalla

Multi-task learning (MTL) has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing applications. In this work, we study a multi-task learning model with multiple decoders on varieties of biomedical and clinical natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Yifan Peng , Qingyu Chen , Zhiyong Lu

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) aims to enhance the model generalization by sharing representations between related tasks for better performance. Typical MTL methods are jointly trained with the complete multitude of ground-truths for all tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yufeng Wang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chih Hung , Wenrui Ding , Shuo Liu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Unfortunately, NMT systems are known to…

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models generally perform translation using a fixed-size lexical vocabulary, which is an important bottleneck on their generalization capability and overall translation quality. The standard approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Duygu Ataman , Orhan Firat , Mattia A. Di Gangi , Marcello Federico , Alexandra Birch

Neural machine translation (NMT) is sensitive to domain shift. In this paper, we address this problem in an active learning setting where we can spend a given budget on translating in-domain data, and gradually fine-tune a pre-trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Junjie Hu , Graham Neubig

Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to improve the generalization of several related tasks by learning them jointly. As a comparison, in addition to the joint training scheme, modern meta-learning allows unseen tasks with limited labels during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Haoxiang Wang , Han Zhao , Bo Li

Fine-tuning pre-trained Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models is the dominant approach for adapting to new languages and domains. However, fine-tuning requires adapting and maintaining a separate model for each target task. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Ankur Bapna , Naveen Arivazhagan , Orhan Firat

We introduce Data Diversification: a simple but effective strategy to boost neural machine translation (NMT) performance. It diversifies the training data by using the predictions of multiple forward and backward models and then merging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Shafiq Joty , Wu Kui , Ai Ti Aw

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has obtained state-of-the art performance for several language pairs, while only using parallel data for training. Target-side monolingual data plays an important role in boosting fluency for phrase-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Rico Sennrich , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

Existing document-level neural machine translation (NMT) models have sufficiently explored different context settings to provide guidance for target generation. However, little attention is paid to inaugurate more diverse context for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Xu Zhang , Jian Yang , Haoyang Huang , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Jinlong Li , Furu Wei

Neural machine translation (NMT) becomes a new approach to machine translation and generates much more fluent results compared to statistical machine translation (SMT). However, SMT is usually better than NMT in translation adequacy. It is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Long Zhou , Wenpeng Hu , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong

Multimodal machine translation is an attractive application of neural machine translation (NMT). It helps computers to deeply understand visual objects and their relations with natural languages. However, multimodal NMT systems suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Tosho Hirasawa , Hayahide Yamagishi , Yukio Matsumura , Mamoru Komachi

While most neural machine translation (NMT) systems are still trained using maximum likelihood estimation, recent work has demonstrated that optimizing systems to directly improve evaluation metrics such as BLEU can substantially improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 John Wieting , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Kevin Gimpel , Graham Neubig

Prior work has proved that Translation memory (TM) can boost the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT). In contrast to existing work that uses bilingual corpus as TM and employs source-side similarity search for memory retrieval,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Deng Cai , Yan Wang , Huayang Li , Wai Lam , Lemao Liu

Multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) enables training a single model that supports translation from multiple source languages into multiple target languages. In this paper, we push the limits of multilingual NMT in terms of number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Roee Aharoni , Melvin Johnson , Orhan Firat