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Fine-tuning multilingual sequence-to-sequence large language models (msLLMs) has shown promise in developing neural machine translation (NMT) systems for low-resource languages (LRLs). However, conventional single-stage fine-tuning methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Sarubi Thillainathan , Songchen Yuan , En-Shiun Annie Lee , Sanath Jayasena , Surangika Ranathunga

Multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) enables training a single model that supports translation from multiple source languages into multiple target languages. In this paper, we push the limits of multilingual NMT in terms of number…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Roee Aharoni , Melvin Johnson , Orhan Firat

Despite the growing variety of languages supported by existing multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) models, most of the world's languages are still being left behind. We aim to extend large-scale MNMT models to incorporate a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wen Lai , Viktor Hangya , Yingli Shen , Alexander Fraser

This paper reports the Machine Translation (MT) systems submitted by the IIITT team for the English->Marathi and English->Irish language pairs LoResMT 2021 shared task. The task focuses on getting exceptional translations for rather…

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) learns to translate multiple language pairs with a single model, potentially improving both the accuracy and the memory-efficiency of deployed models. However, the heavy data imbalance between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Chunting Zhou , Daniel Levy , Xian Li , Marjan Ghazvininejad , Graham Neubig

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

In the current machine translation (MT) landscape, the Transformer architecture stands out as the gold standard, especially for high-resource language pairs. This research delves into its efficacy for low-resource language pairs including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Séamus Lankford

Multilingual neural machine translation (NMT) has recently been investigated from different aspects (e.g., pivot translation, zero-shot translation, fine-tuning, or training from scratch) and in different settings (e.g., rich resource and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Xu Tan , Yichong Leng , Jiale Chen , Yi Ren , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Recent advents in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) have shown improvements in low-resource language (LRL) translation tasks. In this work, we benchmark NMT between English and five African LRL pairs (Swahili, Amharic, Tigrigna, Oromo,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Surafel M. Lakew , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has seen a tremendous spurt of growth in less than ten years, and has already entered a mature phase. While considered as the most widely used solution for Machine Translation, its performance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Surangika Ranathunga , En-Shiun Annie Lee , Marjana Prifti Skenduli , Ravi Shekhar , Mehreen Alam , Rishemjit Kaur

We propose a simple solution to use a single Neural Machine Translation (NMT) model to translate between multiple languages. Our solution requires no change in the model architecture from our base system but instead introduces an artificial…

Neural machine translation (NMT) approaches have improved the state of the art in many machine translation settings over the last couple of years, but they require large amounts of training data to produce sensible output. We demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Robert Östling , Jörg Tiedemann

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) models are commonly trained on a joint set of bilingual corpora which is acutely English-centric (i.e. English either as the source or target language). While direct data between two languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Markus Freitag , Orhan Firat

Neural machine translation (NMT) is a recent and effective technique which led to remarkable improvements in comparison of conventional machine translation techniques. Proposed neural machine translation model developed for the Gujarati…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Parth Shah , Vishvajit Bakrola

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) for low-resource languages (LRL) can be enhanced by the presence of related high-resource languages (HRL), but the relatedness of HRL usually relies on predefined linguistic assumptions about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Surafel M. Lakew , Alina Karakanta , Marcello Federico , Matteo Negri , Marco Turchi

In this paper, we describe our system for the WMT 24 shared task of Low-Resource Indic Language Translation. We consider eng $\leftrightarrow$ {as, kha, lus, mni} as participating language pairs. In this shared task, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Pramit Sahoo , Maharaj Brahma , Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

Massively multilingual models for neural machine translation (NMT) are theoretically attractive, but often underperform bilingual models and deliver poor zero-shot translations. In this paper, we explore ways to improve them. We argue that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Biao Zhang , Philip Williams , Ivan Titov , Rico Sennrich

Machine translation (MT) involving Indigenous languages, including those possibly endangered, is challenging due to lack of sufficient parallel data. We describe an approach exploiting bilingual and multilingual pretrained MT models in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Wei-Rui Chen , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Multilingual neural machine translation aims at learning a single translation model for multiple languages. These jointly trained models often suffer from performance degradation on rich-resource language pairs. We attribute this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Zehui Lin , Liwei Wu , Mingxuan Wang , Lei Li

This paper introduces the submission by Huawei Translation Center (HW-TSC) to the WMT24 Indian Languages Machine Translation (MT) Shared Task. To develop a reliable machine translation system for low-resource Indian languages, we employed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Bin Wei , Jiawei Zhen , Zongyao Li , Zhanglin Wu , Daimeng Wei , Jiaxin Guo , Zhiqiang Rao , Shaojun Li , Yuanchang Luo , Hengchao Shang , Jinlong Yang , Yuhao Xie , Hao Yang