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Speech recognition performance varies by language, domain, and speaker characteristics such as accent, but fine-tuning a model on any of these categories may lead to catastrophic forgetting. Token-level $k$ nearest neighbor search ($k$NN),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Maya K. Nachesa , Vlad Niculae

The reverse k-nearest neighbor (RkNN) query is an established query type with various applications reaching from identifying highly influential objects over incrementally updating kNN graphs to optimizing sensor communication and outlier…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Sandra Obermeier , Max Berrendorf , Peer Kröger

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

Past years have witnessed rapid developments in Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Most recently, with advanced modeling and training techniques, the RNN-based NMT (RNMT) has shown its potential strength, even compared with the well-known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Fandong Meng , Jinchao Zhang

Non-parametric, k-nearest-neighbor algorithms have recently made inroads to assist generative models such as language models and machine translation decoders. We explore whether such non-parametric models can improve machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jiayi Wang , Ke Wang , Yuqi Zhang , Yu Zhao , Pontus Stenetorp

K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) search is a fundamental algorithm in artificial intelligence software with applications in robotics, and autonomous vehicles. These wide-ranging applications utilize KNN either directly for simple classification or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Aryan Naim , Joseph Bowkett , Sisir Karumanchi , Peyman Tavallali , Brett Kennedy

The $k$-nearest neighbor ($k$-NN) algorithm is one of the most popular methods for nonparametric classification. However, a relevant limitation concerns the definition of the number of neighbors $k$. This parameter exerts a direct impact on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Alexandre Luís Magalhães Levada , Frank Nielsen , Michel Ferreira Cardia Haddad

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

Recent literature has demonstrated the potential of multilingual Neural Machine Translation (mNMT) models. However, the most efficient models are not well suited to specialized industries. In these cases, internal data is scarce and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Mathieu Grosso , Pirashanth Ratnamogan , Alexis Mathey , William Vanhuffel , Michael Fotso Fotso

In recent years, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has achieved notable results in various translation tasks. However, the word-by-word generation manner determined by the autoregressive mechanism leads to high translation latency of the NMT…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Chenze Shao , Yang Feng , Jinchao Zhang , Fandong Meng , Jie Zhou

The development of deep learning techniques has allowed Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models to become extremely powerful, given sufficient training data and training time. However, systems struggle when translating text from a new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Danielle Saunders

Despite impressive progress in high-resource settings, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) still struggles in low-resource and out-of-domain scenarios, often failing to match the quality of phrase-based translation. We propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Xing Niu , Michael Denkowski , Marine Carpuat

Neural network classifiers have become the de-facto choice for current "pre-train then fine-tune" paradigms of visual classification. In this paper, we investigate k-Nearest-Neighbor (k-NN) classifiers, a classical model-free learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Menglin Jia , Bor-Chun Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Claire Cardie , Serge Belongie , Ser-Nam Lim

Non-autoregressive (NAR) language models are known for their low latency in neural machine translation (NMT). However, a performance gap exists between NAR and autoregressive models due to the large decoding space and difficulty in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hao Wang , Tetsuro Morimura , Ukyo Honda , Daisuke Kawahara

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), finding data augmentation techniques that can produce high-quality human-interpretable examples has always been challenging. Recently, leveraging kNN such that augmented examples are retrieved from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Ehsan Kamalloo , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Peyman Passban , Ali Ghodsi

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

Autoregressive (AR) models remain widely used in time series analysis due to their interpretability, but convencional parameter estimation methods can be computationally expensive and prone to convergence issues. This paper proposes a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-20 Anaísa Lucena , Ana Martins , Armando J. Pinho , Sónia Gouveia

We present META-MT, a meta-learning approach to adapt Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems in a few-shot setting. META-MT provides a new approach to make NMT models easily adaptable to many target domains with the minimal amount of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Amr Sharaf , Hany Hassan , Hal Daumé

k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) method is a simple and popular statistical method for classification and regression. For both classification and regression problems, existing works have shown that, if the distribution of the feature vector has…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Puning Zhao , Lifeng Lai

Non-autoregressive (NAR) neural machine translation is usually done via knowledge distillation from an autoregressive (AR) model. Under this framework, we leverage large monolingual corpora to improve the NAR model's performance, with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Jiawei Zhou , Phillip Keung