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$k$NN-MT is a straightforward yet powerful approach for fast domain adaptation, which directly plugs pre-trained neural machine translation (NMT) models with domain-specific token-level $k$-nearest-neighbor ($k$NN) retrieval to achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yuhan Dai , Zhirui Zhang , Qiuzhi Liu , Qu Cui , Weihua Li , Yichao Du , Tong Xu

Though nearest neighbor Machine Translation ($k$NN-MT) \citep{khandelwal2020nearest} has proved to introduce significant performance boosts over standard neural MT systems, it is prohibitively slow since it uses the entire reference corpus…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yuxian Meng , Xiaoya Li , Xiayu Zheng , Fei Wu , Xiaofei Sun , Tianwei Zhang , Jiwei Li

Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation ($k$NN-MT) has achieved great success in domain adaptation tasks by integrating pre-trained Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models with domain-specific token-level retrieval. However, the reasons…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Ruize Gao , Zhirui Zhang , Yichao Du , Lemao Liu , Rui Wang

Recent works have proven the effectiveness of k-nearest-neighbor machine translation(a.k.a kNN-MT) approaches to produce remarkable improvement in cross-domain translations. However, these models suffer from heavy retrieve overhead on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Xiangyu Shi , Yunlong Liang , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen

kNN-MT, recently proposed by Khandelwal et al. (2020a), successfully combines pre-trained neural machine translation (NMT) model with token-level k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) retrieval to improve the translation accuracy. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Xin Zheng , Zhirui Zhang , Junliang Guo , Shujian Huang , Boxing Chen , Weihua Luo , Jiajun Chen

Semi-parametric models, which augment generation with retrieval, have led to impressive results in language modeling and machine translation, due to their ability to retrieve fine-grained information from a datastore of examples. One of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

$k$NN based neural machine translation ($k$NN-MT) has achieved state-of-the-art results in a variety of MT tasks. One significant shortcoming of $k$NN-MT lies in its inefficiency in identifying the $k$ nearest neighbors of the query…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Shuhe Wang , Jiwei Li , Yuxian Meng , Rongbin Ouyang , Guoyin Wang , Xiaoya Li , Tianwei Zhang , Shi Zong

K-Nearest Neighbor Neural Machine Translation (kNN-MT) successfully incorporates external corpus by retrieving word-level representations at test time. Generally, kNN-MT borrows the off-the-shelf context representation in the translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Qiang Wang , Rongxiang Weng , Ming Chen

Nearest neighbor machine translation augments the Autoregressive Translation~(AT) with $k$-nearest-neighbor retrieval, by comparing the similarity between the token-level context representations of the target tokens in the query and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Rui Lv , Junliang Guo , Rui Wang , Xu Tan , Qi Liu , Tao Qin

k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation (kNN-MT) has been recently proposed as a non-parametric solution for domain adaptation in neural machine translation (NMT). It aims to alleviate the performance degradation of advanced MT systems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Dexin Wang , Kai Fan , Boxing Chen , Deyi Xiong

Augmenting neural machine translation with external memory at decoding time, in the form of k-nearest neighbors machine translation ($k$-NN MT), is a well-established strategy for increasing translation performance. $k$-NN MT retrieves a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Evgeniia Tokarchuk , Sergey Troshin , Vlad Niculae

Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation (kNNMT) is a simple and effective method of augmenting neural machine translation (NMT) with a token-level nearest neighbor retrieval mechanism. The effectiveness of kNNMT directly depends on the quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jiahuan Li , Shanbo Cheng , Zewei Sun , Mingxuan Wang , Shujian Huang

Non-parametric, k-nearest-neighbor algorithms have recently made inroads to assist generative models such as language models and machine translation decoders. We explore whether such non-parametric models can improve machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jiayi Wang , Ke Wang , Yuqi Zhang , Yu Zhao , Pontus Stenetorp

$k$-Nearest neighbor machine translation ($k$NN-MT) has attracted increasing attention due to its ability to non-parametrically adapt to new translation domains. By using an upstream NMT model to traverse the downstream training corpus, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zhiwei Cao , Baosong Yang , Huan Lin , Suhang Wu , Xiangpeng Wei , Dayiheng Liu , Jun Xie , Min Zhang , Jinsong Su

k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation (kNN-MT) becomes an important research direction of NMT in recent years. Its main idea is to retrieve useful key-value pairs from an additional datastore to modify translations without updating the NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hui Jiang , Ziyao Lu , Fandong Meng , Chulun Zhou , Jie Zhou , Degen Huang , Jinsong Su

k-nearest-neighbor machine translation (kNN-MT) boosts the translation quality of a pre-trained neural machine translation (NMT) model by utilizing translation examples during decoding. Translation examples are stored in a vector database,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hiroyuki Deguchi , Hayate Hirano , Tomoki Hoshino , Yuto Nishida , Justin Vasselli , Taro Watanabe

We introduce $k$NN-LMs, which extend a pre-trained neural language model (LM) by linearly interpolating it with a $k$-nearest neighbors ($k$NN) model. The nearest neighbors are computed according to distance in the pre-trained LM embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Urvashi Khandelwal , Omer Levy , Dan Jurafsky , Luke Zettlemoyer , Mike Lewis

k-nearest-neighbor machine translation (NN-MT), proposed by Khandelwal et al. (2021), has achieved many state-of-the-art results in machine translation tasks. Although effective, NN-MT requires conducting NN searches through the large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Zhixian Yang , Renliang Sun , Xiaojun Wan

k-nearest-neighbor machine translation has demonstrated remarkable improvements in machine translation quality by creating a datastore of cached examples. However, these improvements have been limited to high-resource language pairs, with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 David Stap , Christof Monz

Recently, $k$NN-MT has shown the promising capability of directly incorporating the pre-trained neural machine translation (NMT) model with domain-specific token-level $k$-nearest-neighbor ($k$NN) retrieval to achieve domain adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xin Zheng , Zhirui Zhang , Shujian Huang , Boxing Chen , Jun Xie , Weihua Luo , Jiajun Chen
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