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most citedAlleviating the Inequality of Attention Heads for Neural Machine Translation

6 citations · 25 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2023

Only 5\% Attention Is All You Need: Efficient Long-range Document-level Neural Machine Translation

Zihan Liu, Zewei Sun, Shanbo Cheng +2

Document-level Neural Machine Translation (DocNMT) has been proven crucial for handling discourse phenomena by introducing document-level context information. One of the most impor…

cs.CV2023

BigVideo: A Large-scale Video Subtitle Translation Dataset for Multimodal Machine Translation

Liyan Kang, Luyang Huang, Ningxin Peng +6

We present a large-scale video subtitle translation dataset, BigVideo, to facilitate the study of multi-modality machine translation. Compared with the widely used How2 and VaTeX d…

cs.CL2022★ 4 cited

Better Datastore, Better Translation: Generating Datastores from Pre-Trained Models for Nearest Neural Machine Translation

Jiahuan Li, Shanbo Cheng, Zewei Sun +2

Nearest Neighbor Machine Translation (kNNMT) is a simple and effective method of augmenting neural machine translation (NMT) with a token-level nearest neighbor retrieval mechanism…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Beyond Triplet: Leveraging the Most Data for Multimodal Machine Translation

Yaoming Zhu, Zewei Sun, Shanbo Cheng +3

Multimodal machine translation (MMT) aims to improve translation quality by incorporating information from other modalities, such as vision. Previous MMT systems mainly focus on be…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Controlling Styles in Neural Machine Translation with Activation Prompt

Yifan Wang, Zewei Sun, Shanbo Cheng +2

Controlling styles in neural machine translation (NMT) has attracted wide attention, as it is crucial for enhancing user experience. Earlier studies on this topic typically concent…

cs.CL2022★ 6 cited

Zero-shot Domain Adaptation for Neural Machine Translation with Retrieved Phrase-level Prompts

Zewei Sun, Qingnan Jiang, Shujian Huang +3

Domain adaptation is an important challenge for neural machine translation. However, the traditional fine-tuning solution requires multiple extra training and yields a high cost. I…

cs.CL2021

Multilingual Translation via Grafting Pre-trained Language Models

Zewei Sun, Mingxuan Wang, Lei Li

Can pre-trained BERT for one language and GPT for another be glued together to translate texts? Self-supervised training using only monolingual data has led to the success of pre-t…

cs.CL2020

Rethinking Document-level Neural Machine Translation

Zewei Sun, Mingxuan Wang, Hao Zhou +4

This paper does not aim at introducing a novel model for document-level neural machine translation. Instead, we head back to the original Transformer model and hope to answer the f…

cs.CL2020★ 6 cited

Alleviating the Inequality of Attention Heads for Neural Machine Translation

Zewei Sun, Shujian Huang, Xin-Yu Dai +1

Recent studies show that the attention heads in Transformer are not equal. We relate this phenomenon to the imbalance training of multi-head attention and the model dependence on s…

cs.CL2019★ 1 cited

Generating Diverse Translation by Manipulating Multi-Head Attention

Zewei Sun, Shujian Huang, Hao-Ran Wei +2

Transformer model has been widely used on machine translation tasks and obtained state-of-the-art results. In this paper, we report an interesting phenomenon in its encoder-decoder…

cs.CL2018★ 4 cited

Learning to Discriminate Noises for Incorporating External Information in Neural Machine Translation

Zaixiang Zheng, Shujian Huang, Zewei Sun +3

Previous studies show that incorporating external information could improve the translation quality of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems. However, there are inevitably noise…