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Although large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant success, their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations, including recent jailbreak attacks, has raised considerable concerns. However, the increasing size of these models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jiabao Ji , Bairu Hou , Zhen Zhang , Guanhua Zhang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li , Yang Zhang , Gaowen Liu , Sijia Liu , Shiyu Chang

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) is beneficial especially for low resource languages such as those from the Dravidian family. However, UNMT systems tend to fail in realistic scenarios involving actual low resource languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sai Koneru , Danni Liu , Jan Niehues

While neural machine translation (NMT) is making good progress in the past two years, tens of millions of bilingual sentence pairs are needed for its training. However, human labeling is very costly. To tackle this training data bottleneck,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Yingce Xia , Di He , Tao Qin , Liwei Wang , Nenghai Yu , Tie-Yan Liu , Wei-Ying Ma

In this paper, we study the problem of enabling neural machine translation (NMT) to reuse previous translations from similar examples in target prediction. Distinguishing reusable translations from noisy segments and learning to reuse them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Qian Cao , Shaohui Kuang , Deyi Xiong

\textbf{RE}trieval-\textbf{A}ugmented \textbf{L}LM-based \textbf{M}achine \textbf{T}ranslation (REAL-MT) shows promise for knowledge-intensive tasks like idiomatic translation, but its reliability under noisy retrieval contexts remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yanming Sun , Runzhe Zhan , Chi Seng Cheang , Han Wu , Xuebo Liu , Yuyao Niu , Fengying Ye , Kaixin Lan , Lidia S. Chao , Derek F. Wong

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has made remarkable progress using large-scale textual data, but the potential of incorporating multimodal inputs, especially visual information, remains underexplored in high-resource settings. While prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Baban Gain , Dibyanayan Bandyopadhyay , Samrat Mukherjee , Chandranath Adak , Asif Ekbal

The quality of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has been shown to significantly degrade when confronted with source-side noise. We present the first large-scale study of state-of-the-art English-to-German NMT on real grammatical noise, by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Antonios Anastasopoulos

Modern unsupervised machine translation (MT) systems reach reasonable translation quality under clean and controlled data conditions. As the performance gap between supervised and unsupervised MT narrows, it is interesting to ask whether…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Kelly Marchisio , Markus Freitag , David Grangier

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have demonstrated strong state of the art performance on translation tasks where well-formed training and evaluation data are provided, but they remain sensitive to inputs that include errors of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Daniel Li , Te I , Naveen Arivazhagan , Colin Cherry , Dirk Padfield

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are sensitive to small perturbations in the input. Robustness to such perturbations is typically measured using translation quality metrics such as BLEU on the noisy input. This paper proposes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Xing Niu , Prashant Mathur , Georgiana Dinu , Yaser Al-Onaizan

We explore the idea of automatically crafting a tuning dataset for Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) that makes the hyper-parameters of the SMT system more robust with respect to some specific deficiencies of the parameter tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Preslav Nakov , Stephan Vogel

In traditional speech denoising tasks, clean audio signals are often used as the training target, but absolutely clean signals are collected from expensive recording equipment or in studios with the strict environments. To overcome this…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-20 Jiasong Wu , Qingchun Li , Guanyu Yang , Lei Li , Lotfi Senhadji , Huazhong Shu

Lexical ambiguity is a significant and pervasive challenge in Neural Machine Translation (NMT), with many state-of-the-art (SOTA) NMT systems struggling to handle polysemous words (Campolungo et al., 2022). The same holds for the NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Vivek Iyer , Edoardo Barba , Alexandra Birch , Jeff Z. Pan , Roberto Navigli

While neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved state-of-the-art translation performance, it is unable to capture the alignment between the input and output during the translation process. The lack of alignment in NMT models leads to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Jiacheng Zhang , Huanbo Luan , Maosong Sun , FeiFei Zhai , Jingfang Xu , Yang Liu

Recently, neural machine translation has achieved remarkable progress by introducing well-designed deep neural networks into its encoder-decoder framework. From the optimization perspective, residual connections are adopted to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yanyao Shen , Xu Tan , Di He , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Sensitivity to adversarial noise hinders deployment of machine learning algorithms in security-critical applications. Although many adversarial defenses have been proposed, robustness to adversarial noise remains an open problem. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alex Serban , Erik Poll , Joost Visser

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has reached a level of maturity to be recognized as the premier method for the translation between different languages and aroused interest in different research areas, including software engineering. A key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Pietro Liguori , Cristina Improta , Simona De Vivo , Roberto Natella , Bojan Cukic , Domenico Cotroneo

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has shown drastic improvement in its quality when translating clean input, such as text from the news domain. However, existing studies suggest that NMT still struggles with certain kinds of input with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ryo Fujii , Masato Mita , Kaori Abe , Kazuaki Hanawa , Makoto Morishita , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

In this paper, we present our first attempts in building a multilingual Neural Machine Translation framework under a unified approach. We are then able to employ attention-based NMT for many-to-many multilingual translation tasks. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Thanh-Le Ha , Jan Niehues , Alexander Waibel

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is the task of translating a text from one language to another with the use of a trained neural network. Several existing works aim at incorporating external information into NMT models to improve or control…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Charles Brazier , Jean-Luc Rouas