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Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) starts translating while receiving the streaming source inputs, and hence the source sentence is always incomplete during translating. Different from the full-sentence MT using the conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

Simultaneous translation involves translating a sentence before the speaker's utterance is completed in order to realize real-time understanding in multiple languages. This task is significantly more challenging than the general full…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Aizhan Imankulova , Masahiro Kaneko , Tosho Hirasawa , Mamoru Komachi

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) generates translation before reading the entire source sentence and hence it has to trade off between translation quality and latency. To fulfill the requirements of different translation quality and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

Simultaneous neural machine translation(SNMT) models start emitting the target sequence before they have processed the source sequence. The recent adaptive policies for SNMT use monotonic attention to perform read/write decisions based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Mohd Abbas Zaidi , Sathish Indurthi , Beomseok Lee , Nikhil Kumar Lakumarapu , Sangha Kim

Generative models have gained significant attention in multivariate time series forecasting (MTS), particularly due to their ability to generate high-fidelity samples. Forecasting the probability distribution of multivariate time series is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Shibo Feng , Peilin Zhao , Liu Liu , Pengcheng Wu , Zhiqi Shen

Decoder-only large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in text generation and reasoning. Nonetheless, they have limited applications in simultaneous machine translation (SiMT), currently dominated by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Roman Koshkin , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

The idea of using a separately trained target model (or teacher) to improve the performance of the student model has been increasingly popular in various machine learning domains, and meta-learning is no exception; a recent discovery shows…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jihoon Tack , Jongjin Park , Hankook Lee , Jaeho Lee , Jinwoo Shin

Despite the success of neural machine translation (NMT), simultaneous neural machine translation (SNMT), the task of translating in real time before a full sentence has been observed, remains challenging due to the syntactic structure…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Yun Chen , Liangyou Li , Xin Jiang , Xiao Chen , Qun Liu

Variational Neural Machine Translation (VNMT) is an attractive framework for modeling the generation of target translations, conditioned not only on the source sentence but also on some latent random variables. The latent variable modeling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Hendra Setiawan , Matthias Sperber , Udhay Nallasamy , Matthias Paulik

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) outputs translation while receiving the streaming source inputs, and hence needs a policy to determine where to start translating. The alignment between target and source words often implies the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

Transformer-based large language models (LLM) have been widely used in language processing applications. However, due to the memory constraints of the devices, most of them restrict the context window. Even though recurrent models in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zifan He , Yingqi Cao , Zongyue Qin , Neha Prakriya , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

Simultaneous machine translation consists in starting output generation before the entire input sequence is available. Wait-k decoders offer a simple but efficient approach for this problem. They first read k source tokens, after which they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Maha Elbayad , Laurent Besacier , Jakob Verbeek

Streaming Machine Translation (MT) is the task of translating an unbounded input text stream in real-time. The traditional cascade approach, which combines an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and an MT system, relies on an intermediate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Javier Iranzo-Sánchez , Jorge Iranzo-Sánchez , Adrià Giménez , Jorge Civera , Alfons Juan

In Neural Machine Translation (NMT), each token prediction is conditioned on the source sentence and the target prefix (what has been previously translated at a decoding step). However, previous work on interpretability in NMT has mainly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Javier Ferrando , Gerard I. Gállego , Belen Alastruey , Carlos Escolano , Marta R. Costa-jussà

As deep neural networks continue to revolutionize various application domains, there is increasing interest in making these powerful models more understandable and interpretable, and narrowing down the causes of good and bad predictions. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-04 Viktoriya Krakovna , Finale Doshi-Velez

Much of natural language processing is focused on leveraging large capacity language models, typically trained over single messages with a task of predicting one or more tokens. However, modeling human language at higher-levels of context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Matthew Matero , Nikita Soni , Niranjan Balasubramanian , H. Andrew Schwartz

As deep neural networks continue to revolutionize various application domains, there is increasing interest in making these powerful models more understandable and interpretable, and narrowing down the causes of good and bad predictions. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-21 Viktoriya Krakovna , Finale Doshi-Velez

This paper describes the conversion of a Hidden Markov Model into a sequential transducer that closely approximates the behavior of the stochastic model. This transformation is especially advantageous for part-of-speech tagging because the…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Andre Kempe

Simultaneous machine translation (SiMT) is a challenging task that requires starting translation before the full source sentence is available. Prefix-to-prefix framework is often applied to SiMT, which learns to predict target tokens using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Mengge Liu , Wen Zhang , Xiang Li , Yanzhi Tian , Yuhang Guo , Jian Luan , Bin Wang , Shuoying Chen

It is widely known that hallucination is a critical issue in Simultaneous Machine Translation (SiMT) due to the absence of source-side information. While many efforts have been made to enhance performance for SiMT, few of them attempt to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Meizhi Zhong , Kehai Chen , Zhengshan Xue , Lemao Liu , Mingming Yang , Min Zhang