MIT-10M: A Large Scale Parallel Corpus of Multilingual Image Translation

Bo Li, Shaolin Zhu, Lijie Wen


Abstract
Image Translation (IT) holds immense potential across diverse domains, enabling the translation of textual content within images into various languages. However, existing datasets often suffer from limitations in scale, diversity, and quality, hindering the development and evaluation of IT models. To address this issue, we introduce MIT-10M, a large-scale parallel corpus of multilingual image translation with over 10M image-text pairs derived from real-world data, which has undergone extensive data cleaning and multilingual translation validation. It contains 0.8M images in three sizes, 28 categories, tasks with three levels of difficulty and 14 languages image-text pairs, which is a considerable improvement on existing datasets. We conduct extensive experiments to evaluate and train models on MIT-10M. The experimental results clearly indicate that our dataset has higher adaptability when it comes to evaluating the performance of the models in tackling challenging and complex image translation tasks in the real world. Moreover, the performance of the model fine-tuned with MIT-10M has tripled compared to the baseline model, further confirming its superiority.
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2025.coling-main.346
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Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Owen Rambow, Leo Wanner, Marianna Apidianaki, Hend Al-Khalifa, Barbara Di Eugenio, Steven Schockaert
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5154–5167
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Bo Li, Shaolin Zhu, and Lijie Wen. 2025. MIT-10M: A Large Scale Parallel Corpus of Multilingual Image Translation. In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5154–5167, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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