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most citedDiffusion Language Models Are Versatile Protein Learners

18 citations · 96 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CL2025

Multilingual Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation without Knowledge Distillation

Chenyang Huang, Fei Huang, Zaixiang Zheng +3

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) aims at using one single model for multiple translation directions. Recent work applies non-autoregressive Transformers to improve th…

cs.LG2024★ 18 cited

Diffusion Language Models Are Versatile Protein Learners

Xinyou Wang, Zaixiang Zheng, Fei Ye +3

This paper introduces diffusion protein language model (DPLM), a versatile protein language model that demonstrates strong generative and predictive capabilities for protein sequen…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Diffusion Language Models Can Perform Many Tasks with Scaling and Instruction-Finetuning

Jiasheng Ye, Zaixiang Zheng, Yu Bao +2

The recent surge of generative AI has been fueled by the generative power of diffusion probabilistic models and the scalable capabilities of large language models. Despite their po…

cs.LG2023★ 9 cited

Structure-informed Language Models Are Protein Designers

Zaixiang Zheng, Yifan Deng, Dongyu Xue +3

This paper demonstrates that language models are strong structure-based protein designers. We present LM-Design, a generic approach to reprogramming sequence-based protein language…

cs.CL2023★ 9 cited

DINOISER: Diffused Conditional Sequence Learning by Manipulating Noises

Jiasheng Ye, Zaixiang Zheng, Yu Bao +2

While diffusion models have achieved great success in generating continuous signals such as images and audio, it remains elusive for diffusion models in learning discrete sequence…

cs.CL2022★ 1 cited

Helping the Weak Makes You Strong: Simple Multi-Task Learning Improves Non-Autoregressive Translators

Xinyou Wang, Zaixiang Zheng, Shujian Huang

Recently, non-autoregressive (NAR) neural machine translation models have received increasing attention due to their efficient parallel decoding. However, the probabilistic framewo…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

The Volctrans GLAT System: Non-autoregressive Translation Meets WMT21

Lihua Qian, Yi Zhou, Zaixiang Zheng +7

This paper describes the Volctrans' submission to the WMT21 news translation shared task for German->English translation. We build a parallel (i.e., non-autoregressive) translation…

cs.CL2021★ 2 cited

DirectQE: Direct Pretraining for Machine Translation Quality Estimation

Qu Cui, Shujian Huang, Jiahuan Li +4

Machine Translation Quality Estimation (QE) is a task of predicting the quality of machine translations without relying on any reference. Recently, the predictor-estimator framewor…

cs.CL2021★ 10 cited

Duplex Sequence-to-Sequence Learning for Reversible Machine Translation

Zaixiang Zheng, Hao Zhou, Shujian Huang +3

Sequence-to-sequence learning naturally has two directions. How to effectively utilize supervision signals from both directions? Existing approaches either require two separate mod…

cs.CL2020★ 1 cited

Vocabulary Learning via Optimal Transport for Neural Machine Translation

Jingjing Xu, Hao Zhou, Chun Gan +2

The choice of token vocabulary affects the performance of machine translation. This paper aims to figure out what is a good vocabulary and whether one can find the optimal vocabula…

cs.CL2020

RPD: A Distance Function Between Word Embeddings

Xuhui Zhou, Zaixiang Zheng, Shujian Huang

It is well-understood that different algorithms, training processes, and corpora produce different word embeddings. However, less is known about the relation between different embe…

cs.CL2020★ 7 cited

Towards Making the Most of Context in Neural Machine Translation

Zaixiang Zheng, Xiang Yue, Shujian Huang +2

Document-level machine translation manages to outperform sentence level models by a small margin, but have failed to be widely adopted. We argue that previous research did not make…

cs.CL2019

Multi-Perspective Inferrer: Reasoning Sentences Relationship from Holistic Perspective

Zhen Cheng, Zaixiang Zheng, Xin-Yu Dai +2

Natural Language Inference (NLI) aims to determine the logic relationships (i.e., entailment, neutral and contradiction) between a pair of premise and hypothesis. Recently, the ali…

cs.CL2019★ 6 cited

Learning Representation Mapping for Relation Detection in Knowledge Base Question Answering

Peng Wu, Shujian Huang, Rongxiang Weng +4

Relation detection is a core step in many natural language process applications including knowledge base question answering. Previous efforts show that single-fact questions could…

cs.CL2019★ 9 cited

Dynamic Past and Future for Neural Machine Translation

Zaixiang Zheng, Shujian Huang, Zhaopeng Tu +2

Previous studies have shown that neural machine translation (NMT) models can benefit from explicitly modeling translated (Past) and untranslated (Future) to groups of translated an…

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…

cs.CL2017★ 2 cited

Modeling Past and Future for Neural Machine Translation

Zaixiang Zheng, Hao Zhou, Shujian Huang +4

Existing neural machine translation systems do not explicitly model what has been translated and what has not during the decoding phase. To address this problem, we propose a novel…

cs.CL2017★ 11 cited

Neural Machine Translation with Word Predictions

Rongxiang Weng, Shujian Huang, Zaixiang Zheng +2

In the encoder-decoder architecture for neural machine translation (NMT), the hidden states of the recurrent structures in the encoder and decoder carry the crucial information abo…