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The dominant neural machine translation (NMT) models apply unified attentional encoder-decoder neural networks for translation. Traditionally, the NMT decoders adopt recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to perform translation in a left-toright…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-06 Xiangwen Zhang , Jinsong Su , Yue Qin , Yang Liu , Rongrong Ji , Hongji Wang

Document-level Neural Machine Translation (DocNMT) has been proven crucial for handling discourse phenomena by introducing document-level context information. One of the most important directions is to input the whole document directly to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Zihan Liu , Zewei Sun , Shanbo Cheng , Shujian Huang , Mingxuan Wang

K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) joins are used in scientific domains for data analysis, and are building blocks of several well-known algorithms. KNN-joins find the KNN of all points in a dataset. This paper focuses on a hybrid CPU/GPU approach…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Michael Gowanlock

Multimodal neural machine translation (NMT) has become an increasingly important area of research over the years because additional modalities, such as image data, can provide more context to textual data. Furthermore, the viability of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Andrew Merritt , Chenhui Chu , Yuki Arase

We present a set of parallel algorithms for computing exact k-nearest neighbors in low dimensions. Many k-nearest neighbor algorithms use either a kd-tree or the Morton ordering of the point set; our algorithms combine these approaches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Magdalen Dobson , Guy Blelloch

We present a survey on multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT), which has gained a lot of traction in the recent years. MNMT has been useful in improving translation quality as a result of knowledge transfer. MNMT is more promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Raj Dabre , Chenhui Chu , Anoop Kunchukuttan

Most natural language processing tasks can be formulated as the approximated nearest neighbor search problem, such as word analogy, document similarity, machine translation. Take the question-answering task as an example, given a question…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Jing Wang

Nearest-neighbour retrieval is central to classification and explainable-AI pipelines, but current practice relies on hand-tuning feature layers and distance metrics. We propose Targeted Manifold Manipulation-Nearest Neighbour (TMM-NN),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 B. Ghosh , H. Harikumar , S. Rana

Recently, the development of neural machine translation (NMT) has significantly improved the translation quality of automatic machine translation. While most sentences are more accurate and fluent than translations by statistical machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Jan Niehues , Eunah Cho , Thanh-Le Ha , Alex Waibel

Efficient machine translation models are commercially important as they can increase inference speeds, and reduce costs and carbon emissions. Recently, there has been much interest in non-autoregressive (NAR) models, which promise faster…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Jindřich Helcl , Barry Haddow , Alexandra Birch

We introduce the Normalized Matching Transformer (NMT), a deep learning approach for efficient and accurate sparse semantic keypoint matching between image pairs. NMT consists of a strong visual backbone, geometric feature refinement via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Abtin Pourhadi , Paul Swoboda

Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently achieved impressive results. A potential problem of the existing NMT algorithm, however, is that the decoding is conducted from left to right, without considering the right context. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Aodong Li , Shiyue Zhang , Dong Wang , Thomas Fang Zheng

We present a novel scheme to combine neural machine translation (NMT) with traditional statistical machine translation (SMT). Our approach borrows ideas from linearised lattice minimum Bayes-risk decoding for SMT. The NMT score is combined…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Felix Stahlberg , Adrià de Gispert , Eva Hasler , Bill Byrne

Compared to traditional statistical machine translation (SMT), neural machine translation (NMT) often sacrifices adequacy for the sake of fluency. We propose a method to combine the advantages of traditional SMT and NMT by exploiting an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Jingyi Zhang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichro Sumita , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

In Transformer-based neural machine translation (NMT), the positional encoding mechanism helps the self-attention networks to learn the source representation with order dependency, which makes the Transformer-based NMT achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kehai Chen , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita

Recently, numbers of works shows that the performance of neural machine translation (NMT) can be improved to a certain extent with using visual information. However, most of these conclusions are drawn from the analysis of experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 ZhenHao Tang , XiaoBing Zhang , Zi Long , XiangHua Fu

kNN-MT presents a new paradigm for domain adaptation by building an external datastore, which usually saves all target language token occurrences in the parallel corpus. As a result, the constructed datastore is usually large and possibly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Wenhao Zhu , Shujian Huang , Yunzhe Lv , Xin Zheng , Jiajun Chen

Machine Translation (MT) is one of the most prominent tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) which involves the automatic conversion of texts from one natural language to another while preserving its meaning and fluency. Although the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kavit Gangar , Hardik Ruparel , Shreyas Lele

Neural Networks trained with gradient descent are known to be susceptible to catastrophic forgetting caused by parameter shift during the training process. In the context of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) this results in poor performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Ankur Bapna , Orhan Firat

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