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20142025
most citedLearning Deep Transformer Models for Machine Translation

97 citations · 444 across the 41 of their papers we have counts for

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43 papers

cs.CL2025

Probing Semantic Alignment, Lexical Invariance, and Syntactic Influence in LLM Metaphor Processing

Fengying Ye, Shanshan Wang, Lidia S. Chao +1

Large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on metaphor detection and interpretation tasks, yet it remains unclear what such behavioral success reveals about metaphor p…

cs.CL2025

SGIC: A Self-Guided Iterative Calibration Framework for RAG

Guanhua Chen, Yutong Yao, Lidia S. Chao +2

Recent research in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has concentrated on retrieving useful information from candidate documents. However, numerous methodologies frequently negle…

cs.CL2024

LLMCL-GEC: Advancing Grammatical Error Correction with LLM-Driven Curriculum Learning

Tao Fang, Derek F. Wong, Lusheng Zhang +5

While large-scale language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in specific natural language processing (NLP) tasks, they may still lack proficiency compared to…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

DetectRL: Benchmarking LLM-Generated Text Detection in Real-World Scenarios

Junchao Wu, Runzhe Zhan, Derek F. Wong +4

Detecting text generated by large language models (LLMs) is of great recent interest. With zero-shot methods like DetectGPT, detection capabilities have reached impressive levels.…

cs.CV2024

VisAidMath: Benchmarking Visual-Aided Mathematical Reasoning

Jingkun Ma, Runzhe Zhan, Yang Li +4

A hallmark of advanced artificial intelligence is the capacity to progress from passive visual perception to the strategic modification of visual information to facilitate complex…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

What is the Best Way for ChatGPT to Translate Poetry?

Shanshan Wang, Derek F. Wong, Jingming Yao +1

Machine translation (MT) has historically faced significant challenges when applied to literary works, particularly in the domain of poetry translation. The advent of Large Languag…

cs.CL2024

FOCUS: Forging Originality through Contrastive Use in Self-Plagiarism for Language Models

Kaixin Lan, Tao Fang, Derek F. Wong +3

Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have shown impressive results in various Natural Language Generation (NLG) tasks, such as powering chatbots and generating stories. However, an e…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

A Two-Stage Prediction-Aware Contrastive Learning Framework for Multi-Intent NLU

Guanhua Chen, Yutong Yao, Derek F. Wong +1

Multi-intent natural language understanding (NLU) presents a formidable challenge due to the model confusion arising from multiple intents within a single utterance. While previous…

cs.CL2024

Prefix Text as a Yarn: Eliciting Non-English Alignment in Foundation Language Model

Runzhe Zhan, Xinyi Yang, Derek F. Wong +2

While supervised fine-tuning (SFT) has been a straightforward approach for tailoring the output of foundation large language model (LLM) to specific preferences, concerns have been…

cs.CL2024

Let's Focus on Neuron: Neuron-Level Supervised Fine-tuning for Large Language Model

Haoyun Xu, Runzhe Zhan, Derek F. Wong +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) are composed of neurons that exhibit various behaviors and roles, which become increasingly diversified as models scale. Recent studies have revealed t…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Human-in-the-loop Machine Translation with Large Language Model

Xinyi Yang, Runzhe Zhan, Derek F. Wong +2

The large language model (LLM) has garnered significant attention due to its in-context learning mechanisms and emergent capabilities. The research community has conducted several…

cs.CL2023★ 30 cited

A Survey on LLM-Generated Text Detection: Necessity, Methods, and Future Directions

Junchao Wu, Shu Yang, Runzhe Zhan +3

The powerful ability to understand, follow, and generate complex language emerging from large language models (LLMs) makes LLM-generated text flood many areas of our daily lives at…

cs.CL2023

How Does Pretraining Improve Discourse-Aware Translation?

Zhihong Huang, Longyue Wang, Siyou Liu +1

Pretrained language models (PLMs) have produced substantial improvements in discourse-aware neural machine translation (NMT), for example, improved coherence in spoken language tra…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Can LMs Generalize to Future Data? An Empirical Analysis on Text Summarization

Chi Seng Cheang, Hou Pong Chan, Derek F. Wong +5

Recent pre-trained language models (PLMs) achieve promising results in existing abstractive summarization datasets. However, existing summarization benchmarks overlap in time with…

cs.CL2023★ 58 cited

Is ChatGPT a Highly Fluent Grammatical Error Correction System? A Comprehensive Evaluation

Tao Fang, Shu Yang, Kaixin Lan +4

ChatGPT, a large-scale language model based on the advanced GPT-3.5 architecture, has shown remarkable potential in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks. However, there…

cs.CL2022

Toward Human-Like Evaluation for Natural Language Generation with Error Analysis

Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding, Liping Xie +3

The state-of-the-art language model-based automatic metrics, e.g. BARTScore, benefiting from large-scale contextualized pre-training, have been successfully used in a wide range of…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

ConsistTL: Modeling Consistency in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation

Zhaocong Li, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong +2

Transfer learning is a simple and powerful method that can be used to boost model performance of low-resource neural machine translation (NMT). Existing transfer learning methods f…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Alibaba-Translate China's Submission for WMT 2022 Metrics Shared Task

Yu Wan, Keqin Bao, Dayiheng Liu +5

In this report, we present our submission to the WMT 2022 Metrics Shared Task. We build our system based on the core idea of UNITE (Unified Translation Evaluation), which unifies s…

cs.CL2022★ 2 cited

Attention Mechanism with Energy-Friendly Operations

Yu Wan, Baosong Yang, Dayiheng Liu +5

Attention mechanism has become the dominant module in natural language processing models. It is computationally intensive and depends on massive power-hungry multiplications. In th…

cs.CL2022★ 7 cited

RoBLEURT Submission for the WMT2021 Metrics Task

Yu Wan, Dayiheng Liu, Baosong Yang +6

In this paper, we present our submission to Shared Metrics Task: RoBLEURT (Robustly Optimizing the training of BLEURT). After investigating the recent advances of trainable metrics…

cs.CL2022★ 34 cited

UniTE: Unified Translation Evaluation

Yu Wan, Dayiheng Liu, Baosong Yang +4

Translation quality evaluation plays a crucial role in machine translation. According to the input format, it is mainly separated into three tasks, i.e., reference-only, source-onl…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Variance-Aware Machine Translation Test Sets

Runzhe Zhan, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong +1

We release 70 small and discriminative test sets for machine translation (MT) evaluation called variance-aware test sets (VAT), covering 35 translation directions from WMT16 to WMT…

cs.CL2021

On the Complementarity between Pre-Training and Back-Translation for Neural Machine Translation

Xuebo Liu, Longyue Wang, Derek F. Wong +4

Pre-training (PT) and back-translation (BT) are two simple and powerful methods to utilize monolingual data for improving the model performance of neural machine translation (NMT).…

cs.CL2021

Difficulty-Aware Machine Translation Evaluation

Runzhe Zhan, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong +1

The high-quality translation results produced by machine translation (MT) systems still pose a huge challenge for automatic evaluation. Current MT evaluation pays the same attentio…