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Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) trains a single NMT model that supports translation between multiple languages, rather than training separate models for different languages. Learning a single model can enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Fahimeh Saleh , Wray Buntine , Gholamreza Haffari , Lan Du

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models are capable of translating between multiple source and target languages. Despite various approaches to train such models, they have difficulty with zero-shot translation: translating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Naveen Arivazhagan , Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat , Roee Aharoni , Melvin Johnson , Wolfgang Macherey

Transformer has been widely adopted in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) because of its large capacity and parallel training of sequence generation. However, the deployment of Transformer is challenging because different scenarios require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Peng Gao , Shijie Geng , Yu Qiao , Xiaogang Wang , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

In this work, we provide a recipe for training machine translation models in a limited resource setting by leveraging synthetic target data generated using a large pre-trained model. We show that consistently across different benchmarks in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Sarthak Mittal , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Oleksii Kuchaiev

While general-purpose large language models (LLMs) demonstrate proficiency on multiple tasks within the domain of translation, approaches based on open LLMs are competitive only when specializing on a single task. In this paper, we propose…

We study several methods for full or partial sharing of the decoder parameters of multilingual NMT models. We evaluate both fully supervised and zero-shot translation performance in 110 unique translation directions using only the WMT 2019…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Chris Hokamp , John Glover , Demian Gholipour

Multilayer transformer networks consist of interleaved self-attention and feedforward sublayers. Could ordering the sublayers in a different pattern lead to better performance? We generate randomly ordered transformers and train them with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Ofir Press , Noah A. Smith , Omer Levy

Mobile manipulators are envisioned to serve more complex roles in people's everyday lives. With recent breakthroughs in large language models, task planners have become better at translating human verbal instructions into a sequence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xintong Du , Siqi Zhou , Angela P. Schoellig

When training multilingual machine translation (MT) models that can translate to/from multiple languages, we are faced with imbalanced training sets: some languages have much more training data than others. Standard practice is to up-sample…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Xinyi Wang , Yulia Tsvetkov , Graham Neubig

Probabilistic Transformer (PT), a white-box probabilistic model for contextual word representation, has demonstrated substantial similarity to standard Transformers in both computational structure and downstream task performance on small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Penghao Kuang , Haoyi Wu , Kewei Tu

Different languages have distinct phonetic systems and vary in their prosodic features making it challenging to develop a Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that can effectively synthesise speech in multilingual settings. Furthermore, TTS…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yingting Li , Ambuj Mehrish , Bryan Chew , Bo Cheng , Soujanya Poria

To train neural machine translation models simultaneously on multiple tasks (languages), it is common to sample each task uniformly or in proportion to dataset sizes. As these methods offer little control over performance trade-offs, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Sébastien Jean , Orhan Firat , Melvin Johnson

Automatic translation systems offer a powerful solution to bridge language barriers in scenarios where participants do not share a common language. However, these systems can introduce errors leading to misunderstandings and conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 José Pombal , Sweta Agrawal , Patrick Fernandes , Emmanouil Zaranis , André F. T. Martins

Simultaneous machine translation aims at solving the task of real-time translation by starting to translate before consuming the full input, which poses challenges in terms of balancing quality and latency of the translation. The wait-$k$…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Abderrahmane Issam , Yusuf Can Semerci , Jan Scholtes , Gerasimos Spanakis

This paper presents novel systems and methodologies for the development of efficient large language models (LLMs). It explores the trade-offs between model size, performance, and computational resources, with the aim of maximizing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Sia Gholami , Marwan Omar

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) trained in multiple language pairs has attracted considerable attention due to fewer model parameters and lower training costs by sharing knowledge among multiple languages. Nonetheless,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Jian Yang , Yuwei Yin , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

Modularity is a paradigm of machine translation with the potential of bringing forth models that are large at training time and small during inference. Within this field of study, modular approaches, and in particular attention bridges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Timothee Mickus , Raúl Vázquez , Joseph Attieh

Recently, Mixture-of-Experts (short as MoE) architecture has achieved remarkable success in increasing the model capacity of large-scale language models. However, MoE requires incorporating significantly more parameters than the base model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ze-Feng Gao , Peiyu Liu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Zhong-Yi Lu , Ji-Rong Wen

The Transformer architecture has become prominent in developing large causal language models. However, mechanisms to explain its capabilities are not well understood. Focused on the training process, here we establish a meta-learning view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xinbo Wu , Lav R. Varshney

Human conversation is inherently complex, often spanning many different topics/domains. This makes policy learning for dialogue systems very challenging. Standard flat reinforcement learning methods do not provide an efficient framework for…