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title = "In-Domain {A}frican Languages Translation Using {LLM}s and Multi-armed Bandits",
author = "Singh, Pratik Rakesh and
Prasad, Kritarth and
Zaki, Mohammadi and
Wasnik, Pankaj",
editor = "Lignos, Constantine and
Abdulmumin, Idris and
Adelani, David",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP 2025)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.26/",
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pages = "167--175",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T In-Domain African Languages Translation Using LLMs and Multi-armed Bandits
%A Singh, Pratik Rakesh
%A Prasad, Kritarth
%A Zaki, Mohammadi
%A Wasnik, Pankaj
%Y Lignos, Constantine
%Y Abdulmumin, Idris
%Y Adelani, David
%S Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP 2025)
%D 2025
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vienna, Austria
%@ 979-8-89176-257-2
%F singh-etal-2025-domain
%X Neural Machine Translation (NMT) systems face significant challenges when working with low-resource languages, particularly in domain adaptation tasks. These difficulties arise due to limited training data and suboptimal model generalization, As a result, selecting an optimal model for translation is crucial for achieving strong performance on in-domain data, particularly in scenarios where fine-tuning is not feasible or practical. In this paper, we investigate strategies for selecting the most suitable NMT model for a given domain using bandit-based algorithms, including Upper Confidence Bound, Linear UCB, Neural Linear Bandit, and Thompson Sampling. Our method effectively addresses the resource constraints by facilitating optimal model selection with high confidence. We evaluate the approach across three African languages and domains, demonstrating its robustness and effectiveness in both scenarios where target data is available and where it is absent.
%R 10.18653/v1/2025.africanlp-1.26
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.26/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.africanlp-1.26
%P 167-175
Markdown (Informal)
[In-Domain African Languages Translation Using LLMs and Multi-armed Bandits](https://aclanthology.org/2025.africanlp-1.26/) (Singh et al., AfricaNLP 2025)
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