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As a new neural machine translation approach, Non-Autoregressive machine Translation (NAT) has attracted attention recently due to its high efficiency in inference. However, the high efficiency has come at the cost of not capturing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Yiren Wang , Fei Tian , Di He , Tao Qin , ChengXiang Zhai , Tie-Yan Liu

Recent advances have made non-autoregressive (NAT) translation comparable to autoregressive methods (AT). However, their evaluation using BLEU has been shown to weakly correlate with human annotations. Limited research compares…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Yafu Li , Huajian Zhang , Jianhao Yan , Yongjing Yin , Yue Zhang

A great proportion of sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) models for Neural Machine Translation (NMT) adopt Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) to generate translation word by word following a sequential order. As the studies of linguistics have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Junyang Lin , Xu Sun , Xuancheng Ren , Shuming Ma , Jinsong Su , Qi Su

Recent work on non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) aims at improving the efficiency by parallel decoding without sacrificing the quality. However, existing NAT methods are either inferior to Transformer or require multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Lihua Qian , Hao Zhou , Yu Bao , Mingxuan Wang , Lin Qiu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Lei Li

Despite low latency, non-autoregressive machine translation (NAT) suffers severe performance deterioration due to the naive independence assumption. This assumption is further strengthened by cross-entropy loss, which encourages a strict…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Yafu Li , Leyang Cui , Yongjing Yin , Yue Zhang

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (NMT) enables one model to serve all translation directions, including ones that are unseen during training, i.e. zero-shot translation. Despite being theoretically attractive, current models often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Yilin Yang , Akiko Eriguchi , Alexandre Muzio , Prasad Tadepalli , Stefan Lee , Hany Hassan

Recent studies have proven that the training of neural machine translation (NMT) can be facilitated by mimicking the learning process of humans. Nevertheless, achievements of such kind of curriculum learning rely on the quality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yu Wan , Baosong Yang , Derek F. Wong , Yikai Zhou , Lidia S. Chao , Haibo Zhang , Boxing Chen

Non-autoregressive Transformer(NAT) significantly accelerates the inference of neural machine translation. However, conventional NAT models suffer from limited expression power and performance degradation compared to autoregressive (AT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Shangtong Gui , Chenze Shao , Zhengrui Ma , Xishan Zhang , Yunji Chen , Yang Feng

Non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) offers substantial translation speed up compared to autoregressive neural machine translation (AT) at the cost of translation quality. Latent variable modeling has emerged as a promising…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-10 DongNyeong Heo , Heeyoul Choi

In this work, we empirically confirm that non-autoregressive translation with an iterative refinement mechanism (IR-NAT) suffers from poor acceleration robustness because it is more sensitive to decoding batch size and computing device…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Qiang Wang , Xinhui Hu , Ming Chen

Non-autoregressive approaches aim to improve the inference speed of translation models, particularly those that generate output in a one-pass forward manner. However, these approaches often suffer from a significant drop in translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shen-sian Syu , Juncheng Xie , Hung-yi Lee

Existing approaches to neural machine translation condition each output word on previously generated outputs. We introduce a model that avoids this autoregressive property and produces its outputs in parallel, allowing an order of magnitude…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-12 Jiatao Gu , James Bradbury , Caiming Xiong , Victor O. K. Li , Richard Socher

Non-autoregressive (NAR) neural machine translation is usually done via knowledge distillation from an autoregressive (AR) model. Under this framework, we leverage large monolingual corpora to improve the NAR model's performance, with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jiawei Zhou , Phillip Keung

Benefiting from the sequence-level knowledge distillation, the Non-Autoregressive Transformer (NAT) achieves great success in neural machine translation tasks. However, existing knowledge distillation has side effects, such as propagating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Min Liu , Yu Bao , Chengqi Zhao , Shujian Huang

Although neural machine translation models reached high translation quality, the autoregressive nature makes inference difficult to parallelize and leads to high translation latency. Inspired by recent refinement-based approaches, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Raphael Shu , Jason Lee , Hideki Nakayama , Kyunghyun Cho

Non-autoregressive machine translation (NAT) systems predict a sequence of output tokens in parallel, achieving substantial improvements in generation speed compared to autoregressive models. Existing NAT models usually rely on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Chunting Zhou , Graham Neubig , Jiatao Gu

Non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NART) models suffer from the multi-modality problem which causes translation inconsistency such as token repetition. Most recent approaches have attempted to solve this problem by implicitly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jongyoon Song , Sungwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon

We present Neural Machine Translation (NMT) training using document-level metrics with batch-level documents. Previous sequence-objective approaches to NMT training focus exclusively on sentence-level metrics like sentence BLEU which do not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Danielle Saunders , Felix Stahlberg , Bill Byrne

Recently, non-autoregressive (NAT) models predict outputs in parallel, achieving substantial improvements in generation speed compared to autoregressive (AT) models. While performing worse on raw data, most NAT models are trained as student…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Jiaxin Guo , Minghan Wang , Daimeng Wei , Hengchao Shang , Yuxia Wang , Zongyao Li , Zhengzhe Yu , Zhanglin Wu , Yimeng Chen , Chang Su , Min Zhang , Lizhi Lei , shimin tao , Hao Yang

Although Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have advanced state-of-the-art performance in machine translation, they face problems like the inadequate translation. We attribute this to that the standard Maximum Likelihood Estimation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Xiang Kong , Zhaopeng Tu , Shuming Shi , Eduard Hovy , Tong Zhang