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Multilingual neural machine translation aims at learning a single translation model for multiple languages. These jointly trained models often suffer from performance degradation on rich-resource language pairs. We attribute this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Zehui Lin , Liwei Wu , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

Multilingual large language models (MLLMs), trained on multilingual balanced data, demonstrate better zero-shot learning performance in non-English languages compared to large language models trained on English-dominant data. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Hwichan Kim , Jun Suzuki , Tosho Hirasawa , Mamoru Komachi

While recent advances in deep learning led to significant improvements in machine translation, neural machine translation is often still not able to continuously adapt to the environment. For humans, as well as for machine translation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Jan Niehues

Scarcity of parallel sentence pairs is a major challenge for training high quality neural machine translation (NMT) models in bilingually low-resource scenarios, as NMT is data-hungry. Multi-task learning is an elegant approach to inject…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Poorya Zaremoodi , Gholamreza Haffari

Differently from the traditional statistical MT that decomposes the translation task into distinct separately learned components, neural machine translation uses a single neural network to model the entire translation process. Despite…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Elena Voita , Rico Sennrich , Ivan Titov

Large language models have significantly advanced Multilingual Machine Translation (MMT), yet scaling to many languages while keeping quality robust across directions remains challenging. In this paper, we identify a failure mode of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yingfeng Luo , Ziqiang Xu , Yuxuan Ouyang , Murun Yang , Dingyang Lin , Kaiyan Chang , Tong Zheng , Bei Li , Peinan Feng , Quan Du , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Does multilingual Neural Machine Translation (NMT) lead to The Curse of the Multlinguality or provides the Cross-lingual Knowledge Transfer within a language family? In this study, we explore multiple approaches for extending the available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Artur Kot , Mikołaj Koszowski , Wojciech Chojnowski , Mieszko Rutkowski , Artur Nowakowski , Kamil Guttmann , Mikołaj Pokrywka

Neural machine translation is known to require large numbers of parallel training sentences, which generally prevent it from excelling on low-resource language pairs. This thesis explores the use of cross-lingual transfer learning on neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Tom Kocmi

Recent studies have shown that reinforcement learning (RL) is an effective approach for improving the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) system. However, due to its instability, successfully RL training is challenging,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Lijun Wu , Fei Tian , Tao Qin , Jianhuang Lai , Tie-Yan Liu

This paper proposes a technique for adding a new source or target language to an existing multilingual NMT model without re-training it on the initial set of languages. It consists in replacing the shared vocabulary with a small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Alexandre Berard

The advent of deep learning has led to a significant gain in machine translation. However, most of the studies required a large parallel dataset which is scarce and expensive to construct and even unavailable for some languages. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Viet H. Pham , Thang M. Pham , Giang Nguyen , Long Nguyen , Dien Dinh

Monolingual data has been demonstrated to be helpful in improving the translation quality of neural machine translation (NMT). The current methods stay at the usage of word-level knowledge, such as generating synthetic parallel data or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Rongxiang Weng , Heng Yu , Shujian Huang , Weihua Luo , Jiajun Chen

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is a predominant machine translation technology nowadays because of its end-to-end trainable flexibility. However, NMT still struggles to translate properly in low-resource settings specifically on distant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Baban Gain , Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay , Asif Ekbal

Neural machine translation (NMT) has significantly improved the quality of automatic translation models. One of the main challenges in current systems is the translation of rare words. We present a generic approach to address this weakness…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Ngoc-Quan Pham , Jan Niehues , Alex Waibel

Previous works mostly focus on either multilingual or multi-domain aspects of neural machine translation (NMT). This paper investigates whether the domain information can be transferred across languages on the composition of multi-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Thuy-Trang Vu , Shahram Khadivi , Xuanli He , Dinh Phung , Gholamreza Haffari

Transformers that are pre-trained on multilingual corpora, such as, mBERT and XLM-RoBERTa, have achieved impressive cross-lingual transfer capabilities. In the zero-shot transfer setting, only English training data is used, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Yang Chen , Alan Ritter

While neural machine translation (NMT) has become the new paradigm, the parameter optimization requires large-scale parallel data which is scarce in many domains and language pairs. In this paper, we address a new translation scenario in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Yining Wang , Yang Zhao , Jiajun Zhang , Chengqing Zong , Zhengshan Xue

Multimodal Machine Translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by leveraging auxiliary modalities such as images alongside textual input. While recent advances in large-scale pre-trained language and vision models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Zhuang Yu , Shiliang Sun , Jing Zhao , Tengfei Song , Hao Yang

We propose a method to transfer knowledge across neural machine translation (NMT) models by means of a shared dynamic vocabulary. Our approach allows to extend an initial model for a given language pair to cover new languages by adapting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Surafel M. Lakew , Aliia Erofeeva , Matteo Negri , Marcello Federico , Marco Turchi

In state-of-the-art Neural Machine Translation (NMT), an attention mechanism is used during decoding to enhance the translation. At every step, the decoder uses this mechanism to focus on different parts of the source sentence to gather the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Jean-Benoit Delbrouck , Stéphane Dupont