Title
The NiuTrans System for WNGT 2020 Efficiency Task
Abstract
This paper describes the submissions of the NiuTrans Team to the WNGT 2020 Efficiency Shared Task. We focus on the efficient implementation of deep Transformer models (Wang et al., 2019; Li et al., 2019) using NiuTensor, a flexible toolkit for NLP tasks. We explored the combination of deep encoder and shallow decoder in Transformer models via model compression and knowledge distillation. The neural machine translation decoding also benefits from FP16 inference, attention caching, dynamic batching, and batch pruning. Our systems achieve promising results in both translation quality and efficiency, e.g., our fastest system can translate more than 40,000 tokens per second with an RTX 2080 Ti while maintaining 42.9 BLEU on newstest2018.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.18653/v1/2020.ngt-1.24
NGT@ACL
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
2
0.39
References 
Authors
16
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chi Hu132.10
Bei Li221.06
Yinqiao Li362.47
Ye Lin431.42
Yanyang Li552.46
Chenglong Wang622.08
Tong Xiao713123.91
Jingbo Zhu870364.21