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title = "{XLM}-{D}: Decorate Cross-lingual Pre-training Model as Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation",
author = "Wang, Yong and
He, Shilin and
Chen, Guanhua and
Chen, Yun and
Jiang, Daxin",
editor = "Goldberg, Yoav and
Kozareva, Zornitsa and
Zhang, Yue",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = dec,
year = "2022",
address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.466",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.466",
pages = "6934--6946",
abstract = "Pre-training language models have achieved thriving success in numerous natural language understanding and autoregressive generation tasks, but non-autoregressive generation in applications such as machine translation has not sufficiently benefited from the pre-training paradigm. In this work, we establish the connection between a pre-trained masked language model (MLM) and non-autoregressive generation on machine translation. From this perspective, we present XLM-D, which seamlessly transforms an off-the-shelf cross-lingual pre-training model into a non-autoregressive translation (NAT) model with a lightweight yet effective decorator. Specifically, the decorator ensures the representation consistency of the pre-trained model and brings only one additional trainable parameter. Extensive experiments on typical translation datasets show that our models obtain state-of-the-art performance while realizing the inference speed-up by 19.9x. One striking result is that on WMT14 En-De, our XLM-D obtains 29.80 BLEU points with multiple iterations, which outperforms the previous mask-predict model by 2.77 points.",
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%T XLM-D: Decorate Cross-lingual Pre-training Model as Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation
%A Wang, Yong
%A He, Shilin
%A Chen, Guanhua
%A Chen, Yun
%A Jiang, Daxin
%Y Goldberg, Yoav
%Y Kozareva, Zornitsa
%Y Zhang, Yue
%S Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F wang-etal-2022-xlm
%X Pre-training language models have achieved thriving success in numerous natural language understanding and autoregressive generation tasks, but non-autoregressive generation in applications such as machine translation has not sufficiently benefited from the pre-training paradigm. In this work, we establish the connection between a pre-trained masked language model (MLM) and non-autoregressive generation on machine translation. From this perspective, we present XLM-D, which seamlessly transforms an off-the-shelf cross-lingual pre-training model into a non-autoregressive translation (NAT) model with a lightweight yet effective decorator. Specifically, the decorator ensures the representation consistency of the pre-trained model and brings only one additional trainable parameter. Extensive experiments on typical translation datasets show that our models obtain state-of-the-art performance while realizing the inference speed-up by 19.9x. One striking result is that on WMT14 En-De, our XLM-D obtains 29.80 BLEU points with multiple iterations, which outperforms the previous mask-predict model by 2.77 points.
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%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.466
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.466
%P 6934-6946
Markdown (Informal)
[XLM-D: Decorate Cross-lingual Pre-training Model as Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.466) (Wang et al., EMNLP 2022)
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