Publications (18)
Analyzing and Improving Cross-lingual Knowledge Transfer for Machine Translation
David Stap
Multilingual machine translation systems aim to make knowledge accessible across languages, yet learning effective cross-lingual representations remains challenging. These challeng…
MMTEB: Massive Multilingual Text Embedding Benchmark
Kenneth Enevoldsen, Isaac Chung, Imene Kerboua +83
Text embeddings are typically evaluated on a limited set of tasks, which are constrained by language, domain, and task diversity. To address these limitations and provide a more co…
Multilingual k-Nearest-Neighbor Machine Translation
David Stap, Christof Monz
k-nearest-neighbor machine translation has demonstrated remarkable improvements in machine translation quality by creating a datastore of cached examples. However, these improvemen…
UvA-MT's Participation in the WMT23 General Translation Shared Task
Di Wu, Shaomu Tan, David Stap +2
This paper describes the UvA-MT's submission to the WMT 2023 shared task on general machine translation. We participate in the constrained track in two directions: English <-> Hebr…
Effective Distillation to Hybrid xLSTM Architectures
Lukas Hauzenberger, Niklas Schmidinger, Thomas Schmied +7
There have been numerous attempts to distill quadratic attention-based large language models (LLMs) into sub-quadratic linearized architectures. However, despite extensive research…
How Far Can 100 Samples Go? Unlocking Overall Zero-Shot Multilingual Translation via Tiny Multi-Parallel Data
Di Wu, Shaomu Tan, Yan Meng +2
Zero-shot translation aims to translate between language pairs not seen during training in Multilingual Machine Translation (MMT) and is largely considered an open problem. A commo…