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We introduce $k$-nearest-neighbor machine translation ($k$NN-MT), which predicts tokens with a nearest neighbor classifier over a large datastore of cached examples, using representations from a neural translation model for similarity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Urvashi Khandelwal , Angela Fan , Dan Jurafsky , Luke Zettlemoyer , Mike Lewis

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

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

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

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

$k$-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

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

$k$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

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

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 (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

Retrieval-augmented Neural Machine Translation models have been successful in many translation scenarios. Different from previous works that make use of mutually similar but redundant translation memories~(TMs), we propose a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Xin Cheng , Shen Gao , Lemao Liu , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Retrieval augmented methods have shown promising results in various classification tasks. However, existing methods focus on retrieving extra context to enrich the input, which is noise sensitive and non-expandable. In this paper, following…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xinnian Liang , Shuangzhi Wu , Hui Huang , Jiaqi Bai , Chao Bian , Zhoujun Li

To achieve non-parametric NMT domain adaptation, $k$-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation ($k$NN-MT) constructs an external datastore to store domain-specific translation knowledge, which derives a $k$NN distribution to interpolate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yan Gao , Zhiwei Cao , Zhongjian Miao , Baosong Yang , Shiyu Liu , Min Zhang , Jinsong Su

$k$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

One of the difficulties of neural machine translation (NMT) is the recall and appropriate translation of low-frequency words or phrases. In this paper, we propose a simple, fast, and effective method for recalling previously seen…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Jingyi Zhang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichro Sumita , Graham Neubig , Satoshi Nakamura

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

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

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

Pre-trained models are widely used in fine-tuning downstream tasks with linear classifiers optimized by the cross-entropy loss, which might face robustness and stability problems. These problems can be improved by learning representations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Linyang Li , Demin Song , Ruotian Ma , Xipeng Qiu , Xuanjing Huang
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