English
Related papers

Related papers: Diformer: Directional Transformer for Neural Machi…

200 papers

Non-Autoregressive Transformer (NAT) aims to accelerate the Transformer model through discarding the autoregressive mechanism and generating target words independently, which fails to exploit the target sequential information.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Chenze Shao , Yang Feng , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Xilin Chen , Jie Zhou

Non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) models are proposed to accelerate the inference process while maintaining relatively high performance. However, existing NAT models are difficult to achieve the desired efficiency-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Pei Guo , Yisheng Xiao , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

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

The rapid progress of large multimodal models has inspired efforts toward unified frameworks that couple understanding and generation. While such paradigms have shown remarkable success in 2D, extending them to 3D remains largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yongwei Chen , Tianyi Wei , Yushi Lan , Zhaoyang Lyu , Shangchen Zhou , Xudong Xu , Xingang Pan

Recent progress in multimodal generation has increasingly combined autoregressive (AR) and diffusion-based approaches, leveraging their complementary strengths: AR models capture long-range dependencies and produce fluent, context-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Junhao Chen , Yulia Tsvetkov , Xiaochuang Han

Non-autoregressive Transformer is a promising text generation model. However, current non-autoregressive models still fall behind their autoregressive counterparts in translation quality. We attribute this accuracy gap to the lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Yu Bao , Shujian Huang , Tong Xiao , Dongqi Wang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen

Fully non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) is proposed to simultaneously predict tokens with single forward of neural networks, which significantly reduces the inference latency at the expense of quality drop compared to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jiatao Gu , Xiang Kong

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

Non-autoregressive (nAR) models for machine translation (MT) manifest superior decoding speed when compared to autoregressive (AR) models, at the expense of impaired fluency of their outputs. We improve the fluency of a nAR model with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Zdeněk Kasner , Jindřich Libovický , Jindřich Helcl

Modern non-autoregressive~(NAR) speech recognition systems aim to accelerate the inference speed; however, they suffer from performance degradation compared with autoregressive~(AR) models as well as the huge model size issue. We propose a…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Xun Gong , Zhikai Zhou , Yanmin Qian

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been studied in text generation to tackle the exposure bias problem. Despite their remarkable development, they adopt autoregressive structures so suffering from high latency in both training and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Da Ren , Yi Cai , Qing Li

Non-autoregressive Transformer (NAT) is a family of text generation models, which aims to reduce the decoding latency by predicting the whole sentences in parallel. However, such latency reduction sacrifices the ability to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Fei Huang , Tianhua Tao , Hao Zhou , Lei Li , Minlie Huang

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

Neural Machine Translation(NMT) models are usually trained via unidirectional decoder which corresponds to optimizing one-step-ahead prediction. However, this kind of unidirectional decoding framework may incline to focus on local structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Xuanwei Zhang , Libin Shen , Disheng Pan , Liang Wang , Yanjun Miao

We study reasoning tasks through a framework that integrates auto-regressive (AR) and non-autoregressive (NAR) language models. AR models, which generate text sequentially, excel at producing coherent outputs but often suffer from slow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Qihang Ai , Haiyun Jiang

While non-autoregressive (NAR) models are showing great promise for machine translation, their use is limited by their dependence on knowledge distillation from autoregressive models. To address this issue, we seek to understand why…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Weijia Xu , Shuming Ma , Dongdong Zhang , Marine Carpuat

Non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models, which remove the dependence on previous target tokens from the inputs of the decoder, achieve significantly inference speedup but at the cost of inferior accuracy compared to autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Di He , Tao Qin , Linli Xu , Tie-Yan Liu

Non-autoregressive automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a mainstream of ASR modeling because of its fast decoding speed and satisfactory result. To further boost the performance, relaxing the conditional independence assumption and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chong-En Lin , Kuan-Yu Chen

The field of image synthesis is currently flourishing due to the advancements in diffusion models. While diffusion models have been successful, their computational intensity has prompted the pursuit of more efficient alternatives. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Zanlin Ni , Yulin Wang , Renping Zhou , Jiayi Guo , Jinyi Hu , Zhiyuan Liu , Shiji Song , Yuan Yao , Gao Huang

In this paper, we explore a new generative approach for learning visual representations. Our method, DARL, employs a decoder-only Transformer to predict image patches autoregressively. We find that training with Mean Squared Error (MSE)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yazhe Li , Jorg Bornschein , Ting Chen