2016 GooglesNeuralMachineTranslation
- (Wu, Schuster et al., 2016) ⇒ Yonghui Wu, Mike Schuster, Zhifeng Chen, Quoc V. Le, Mohammad Norouzi, Wolfgang Macherey, Maxim Krikun, Yuan Cao, Qin Gao, Klaus Macherey, Jeff Klingner, Apurva Shah, Melvin Johnson, Xiaobing Liu, Lukasz Kaiser, Stephan Gouws, Yoshikiyo Kato, Taku Kudo, Hideto Kazawa, Keith Stevens, George Kurian, Nishant Patil, Wei Wang, Cliff Young, Jason Smith, Jason Riesa, Alex Rudnick, Oriol Vinyals, Greg Corrado, Macduff Hughes, and Jeffrey Dean (2016). ""Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap Between Human and Machine Translation." In: arXiv:1609.08144.
Subject Headings: Neural MT Algorithm; Neural MT System; Memory-Augmented Neural Network.
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2017
- (Johnson et al., 2017) ⇒ Melvin Johnson, Mike Schuster, Quoc V. Le, Maxim Krikun, Yonghui Wu, Zhifeng Chen, Nikhil Thorat, Fernanda Viégas, Martin Wattenberg, Greg Corrado, Macduff Hughes, and Jeffrey Dean. (2017). “Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-shot Translation.” In: Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 5.
- (Vaswani et al., 2017) ⇒ Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. (2017). “Attention is all You Need.” In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
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Abstract
Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an end-to-end learning approach for automated translation, with the potential to overcome many of the weaknesses of conventional phrase-based translation systems. Unfortunately, NMT systems are known to be computationally expensive both in training and in translation inference. Also, most NMT systems have difficulty with rare words. These issues have hindered NMT's use in practical deployments and services, where both accuracy and speed are essential. In this work, we present GNMT, Google's Neural Machine Translation system, which attempts to address many of these issues. Our model consists of a deep LSTM network with 8 encoder and 8 decoder layers using attention and residual connections. To improve parallelism and therefore decrease training time, our attention mechanism connects the bottom layer of the decoder to the top layer of the encoder. To accelerate the final translation speed, we employ low-precision arithmetic during inference computations. To improve handling of rare words, we divide words into a limited set of common sub-word units ("wordpieces") for both input and output. This method provides a good balance between the flexibility of "character"-delimited models and the efficiency of "word"-delimited models, naturally handles translation of rare words, and ultimately improves the overall accuracy of the system. Our beam search technique employs a length-normalization procedure and uses a coverage penalty, which encourages generation of an output sentence that is most likely to cover all the words in the source sentence. On the WMT'14 English-to-French and English-to-German benchmarks, GNMT achieves competitive results to state-of-the-art. Using a human side-by-side evaluation on a set of isolated simple sentences, it reduces translation errors by an average of 60% compared to Google's phrase-based production system.
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BibTeX
@article{2016_GooglesNeuralMachineTranslation,
author = {Yonghui Wu and
Mike Schuster and
Zhifeng Chen and
Quoc V. Le and
Mohammad Norouzi and
Wolfgang Macherey and
Maxim Krikun and
Yuan Cao and
Qin Gao and
Klaus Macherey and
Jeff Klingner and
Apurva Shah and
Melvin Johnson and
Xiaobing Liu and
Lukasz Kaiser and
Stephan Gouws and
Yoshikiyo Kato and
[[Taku Kudo]] and
Hideto Kazawa and
Keith Stevens and
George Kurian and
Nishant Patil and
Wei Wang and
Cliff Young and
Jason Smith and
Jason Riesa and
Alex Rudnick and
[[Oriol Vinyals]] and
Greg Corrado and
Macduff Hughes and
Jeffrey Dean},
title = {Google's Neural Machine Translation System: Bridging the Gap between
Human and Machine Translation},
journal = {CoRR},
volume = {abs/1609.08144},
year = {2016},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {1609.08144},
}