Synchronous Inference for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation
Wang, Qian; Zhang, Jiajun; Zong, Chengqing
刊名IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING
2022
期号30页码:1827
英文摘要

Multilingual neural machine translation allows a single model to translate between multiple language pairs, which greatly reduces the cost of model training and receives much attention recently. Previous studies mainly focus on training stage optimization and improve positive knowledge transfer among languages with different levels of parameter sharing, but ignore the multilingual knowledge transfer during inference although the translation in one language may help the generation of other languages. This work enhances knowledge sharing among multiple target languages in the inference phase. To achieve this, we propose a synchronous inference method that can simultaneously generate translations in multiple languages. During generation, the model that predicts the next word of each language not only based on source sentence and previously predicted segments, but also based on predicted words of other target languages. To maximize the inference stage knowledge sharing, we design a cross-lingual attention module which allows the model to dynamically selects the most relevant information from multiple target languages. The synchronous inference model requires multi-way parallel training data which is scarce. We therefore propose to adopt multi-task learning to incorporate large-scale bilingual data. We evaluate our method on three multilingual translation datasets and prove that the proposed method significantly improve the translation quality and the decoding efficiency compared to strong bilingual and multilingual baselines.

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内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/50599]  
专题模式识别国家重点实验室_自然语言处理
作者单位1.School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
2.National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing 100190, China
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Wang, Qian,Zhang, Jiajun,Zong, Chengqing. Synchronous Inference for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation[J]. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING,2022(30):1827.
APA Wang, Qian,Zhang, Jiajun,&Zong, Chengqing.(2022).Synchronous Inference for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation.IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING(30),1827.
MLA Wang, Qian,et al."Synchronous Inference for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation".IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON AUDIO, SPEECH, AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING .30(2022):1827.
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