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year = "2021",
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pages = "5915--5922",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Data and Parameter Scaling Laws for Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.478) (Gordon et al., EMNLP 2021)
ACL
- Mitchell A Gordon, Kevin Duh, and Jared Kaplan. 2021. Data and Parameter Scaling Laws for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 5915–5922, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.