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Domain adaptation has been well-studied in supervised neural machine translation (SNMT). However, it has not been well-studied for unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT), although UNMT has recently achieved remarkable results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Haipeng Sun , Rui Wang , Kehai Chen , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita , Tiejun Zhao , Chenhui Chu

This paper considers the unsupervised domain adaptation problem for neural machine translation (NMT), where we assume the access to only monolingual text in either the source or target language in the new domain. We propose a cross-lingual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Thuy-Trang Vu , Xuanli He , Dinh Phung , Gholamreza Haffari

General translation models often still struggle to generate accurate translations in specialized domains. To guide machine translation practitioners and characterize the effectiveness of domain adaptation methods under different data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Virginia Adams , Sandeep Subramanian , Mike Chrzanowski , Oleksii Hrinchuk , Oleksii Kuchaiev

Continual pretraining promises to adapt large language models (LLMs) to new domains using only unlabeled test-time data, but naively applying standard self-supervised objectives to instruction-tuned models is known to degrade their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tianyi Zhang , Florian Mai , Lucie Flek

Many contextualized word representations are now learned by intricate neural network models, such as masked neural language models (MNLMs) which are made up of huge neural network structures and trained to restore the masked text. Such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Sunjae Kwon , Cheongwoong Kang , Jiyeon Han , Jaesik Choi

Neural machine translation (NMT) has achieved remarkable success in producing high-quality translations. However, current NMT systems suffer from a lack of reliability, as their outputs that are often affected by lexical or syntactic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Rongxiang Weng , Qiang Wang , Wensen Cheng , Changfeng Zhu , Min Zhang

Neural networks have demonstrated significant advancements in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) compared to conventional phrase-based approaches. However, Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) in extremely low-resource settings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Vageesh Saxena , Sharid Loáiciga , Nils Rethmeier

Adapting general large language models (LLMs) to specialized domains presents great challenges due to varied data distributions. This adaptation typically requires continual pre-training on massive domain-specific corpora to facilitate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jinhao Jiang , Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yang Song , Tao Zhang , Ji-Rong Wen

The recent success of neural machine translation models relies on the availability of high quality, in-domain data. Domain adaptation is required when domain-specific data is scarce or nonexistent. Previous unsupervised domain adaptation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zi-Yi Dou , Junjie Hu , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

One of the significant challenges of Machine Translation (MT) is the scarcity of large amounts of data, mainly parallel sentence aligned corpora. If the evaluation is as rigorous as resource-rich languages, both Neural Machine Translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Amit Kumar , Rupjyoti Baruah , Ajay Pratap , Mayank Swarnkar , Anil Kumar Singh

Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (MNMT) models leverage many language pairs during training to improve translation quality for low-resource languages by transferring knowledge from high-resource languages. We study the quality of a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Miguel Rios , Raluca-Maria Chereji , Alina Secara , Dragos Ciobanu

Consistency is a key requirement of high-quality translation. It is especially important to adhere to pre-approved terminology and adapt to corrected translations in domain-specific projects. Machine translation (MT) has achieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Yasmin Moslem , Rejwanul Haque , John D. Kelleher , Andy Way

Deep learning has witnessed significant advancements in recent years at the cost of increasing training, inference, and model storage overhead. While existing model compression methods strive to reduce the number of model parameters while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Wujie Sun , Defang Chen , Jiawei Chen , Yan Feng , Chun Chen , Can 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

Continual learning in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) faces the dual challenges of catastrophic forgetting and the high computational cost of retraining. This study establishes Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) as a parameter-efficient framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Salvador Carrión , Francisco Casacuberta

In this paper, we propose a novel domain adaptation method named "mixed fine tuning" for neural machine translation (NMT). We combine two existing approaches namely fine tuning and multi domain NMT. We first train an NMT model on an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Chenhui Chu , Raj Dabre , Sadao Kurohashi

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

The goal of this paper is to use multi-task learning to efficiently scale slot filling models for natural language understanding to handle multiple target tasks or domains. The key to scalability is reducing the amount of training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Aaron Jaech , Larry Heck , Mari Ostendorf

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

With the advent of the Transformer architecture, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) results have shown great improvement lately. However, results in low-resource conditions still lag behind in both bilingual and multilingual setups, due to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Isidora Chara Tourni , Derry Wijaya