Title
Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation with Enhanced Decoder Input
Abstract
Non-autoregressive translation (NAT) models, which remove the dependence on previous target tokens from the inputs of the decoder, achieve significantly inference speedup but at the cost of inferior accuracy compared to autoregressive translation (AT) models. Previous work shows that the quality of the inputs of the decoder is important and largely impacts the model accuracy. In this paper, we propose two methods to enhance the decoder inputs so as to improve NAT models. The first one directly leverages a phrase table generated by conventional SMT approaches to translate source tokens to target tokens, which are then fed into the decoder as inputs. The second one transforms source-side word embeddings to target-side word embeddings through sentence-level alignment and word-level adversary learning, and then feeds the transformed word embeddings into the decoder as inputs. Experimental results show our method largely outperforms the NAT baseline (Gu et al. 2017) by 5:11 BLEU scores on WMT14 English-German task and 4:72 BLEU scores on WMT16 English-Romanian task.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
national conference on artificial intelligence
Autoregressive model,BLEU,Nat,Computer science,Inference,Machine translation,Phrase,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Speedup
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1812.09664
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
13
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junliang Guo172.44
Xu Tan28823.94
Di He315419.76
Tao Qin42384147.25
Linli Xu579042.51
Tie-yan Liu64662256.32