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Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Rajasekhar Anguluri , Vaibhav Katewa , Sandip Roy , Fabio Pasqualetti

This paper presents EvolveMT for efficiently combining multiple machine translation (MT) engines. The proposed system selects the output from a single engine for each segment by utilizing online learning techniques to predict the most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kamer Ali Yuksel , Ahmet Gunduz , Mohamed Al-Badrashiny , Shreyas Sharma , Hassan Sawaf

Training data for NLP tasks often exhibits gender bias in that fewer sentences refer to women than to men. In Neural Machine Translation (NMT) gender bias has been shown to reduce translation quality, particularly when the target language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Danielle Saunders , Bill Byrne

The encoder-decoder framework for neural machine translation (NMT) has been shown effective in large data scenarios, but is much less effective for low-resource languages. We present a transfer learning method that significantly improves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Barret Zoph , Deniz Yuret , Jonathan May , Kevin Knight

This paper addresses the problem of optimizing communicated information among heterogeneous, resource-aware robot teams to facilitate their navigation. In such operations, a mobile robot compresses its local map to assist another robot in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Evangelos Psomiadis , Ali Reza Pedram , Dipankar Maity , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Quality Estimation (QE) is an important component of the machine translation workflow as it assesses the quality of the translated output without consulting reference translations. In this paper, we discuss our submission to the WMT 2021 QE…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Shaika Chowdhury , Naouel Baili , Brian Vannah

This research presents a fine-grained human evaluation to compare the Transformer and recurrent approaches to neural machine translation (MT), on the translation direction English-to-Chinese. To this end, we develop an error taxonomy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Yuying Ye , Antonio Toral

LLM decoding often relies on the model's predictive distribution to generate an output. Consequently, misalignment with respect to the true generating distribution leads to suboptimal decisions in practice. While a natural solution is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tim Tomov , Dominik Fuchsgruber , Rajeev Verma , Stephan Günnemann

Neural machine translation (NMT) has recently become popular in the field of machine translation. However, NMT suffers from the problem of repeating or missing words in the translation. To address this problem, Tu et al. (2017) proposed an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Yukio Matsumura , Takayuki Sato , Mamoru Komachi

Although Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models have advanced state-of-the-art performance in machine translation, they face problems like the inadequate translation. We attribute this to that the standard Maximum Likelihood Estimation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Xiang Kong , Zhaopeng Tu , Shuming Shi , Eduard Hovy , Tong Zhang

Non-autoregressive (NAR) models can generate sentences with less computation than autoregressive models but sacrifice generation quality. Previous studies addressed this issue through iterative decoding. This study proposes using nearest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Ayana Niwa , Sho Takase , Naoaki Okazaki

In Transformer-based neural machine translation (NMT), the positional encoding mechanism helps the self-attention networks to learn the source representation with order dependency, which makes the Transformer-based NMT achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kehai Chen , Rui Wang , Masao Utiyama , Eiichiro Sumita

The competitive performance of neural machine translation (NMT) critically relies on large amounts of training data. However, acquiring high-quality translation pairs requires expert knowledge and is costly. Therefore, how to best utilize a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Mingjun Zhao , Haijiang Wu , Di Niu , Xiaoli Wang

Although end-to-end Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has achieved remarkable progress in the past two years, it suffers from a major drawback: translations generated by NMT systems often lack of adequacy. It has been widely observed that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Zhaopeng Tu , Yang Liu , Lifeng Shang , Xiaohua Liu , Hang Li

Recently, universal neural machine translation (NMT) with shared encoder-decoder gained good performance on zero-shot translation. Unlike universal NMT, jointly trained language-specific encoders-decoders aim to achieve universal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Junwei Liao , Yu Shi , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Hong Qu , Michael Zeng

The application of current generation computing machines in safety-centric applications like implantable biomedical chips and automobile safety has immensely increased the need for reviewing the worst-case error behavior of computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Karthikeyan Lingasubramanian , Syed M. Alam , Sanjukta Bhanja

Neural network models have shown excellent fluency and performance when applied to abstractive summarization. Many approaches to neural abstractive summarization involve the introduction of significant inductive bias, exemplified through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Luke de Oliveira , Alfredo Láinez Rodrigo

One of the most important challenges in text generation systems is to produce outputs that are not only correct but also diverse. Recently, Minimum Bayes-Risk (MBR) decoding has gained prominence for generating sentences of the highest…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yuu Jinnai , Ukyo Honda , Tetsuro Morimura , Peinan Zhang

In the field of machine learning, the well-trained model is assumed to be able to recover the training labels, i.e. the synthetic labels predicted by the model should be as close to the ground-truth labels as possible. Inspired by this, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Lei Zhou , Liang Ding , Kevin Duh , Shinji Watanabe , Ryohei Sasano , Koichi Takeda

Recent progress in neural machine translation is directed towards larger neural networks trained on an increasing amount of hardware resources. As a result, NMT models are costly to train, both financially, due to the electricity and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Tom Kocmi , Ondřej Bojar