%0 Conference Proceedings %T CytonMT: an Efficient Neural Machine Translation Open-source Toolkit Implemented in C++ %A Wang, Xiaolin %A Utiyama, Masao %A Sumita, Eiichiro %Y Blanco, Eduardo %Y Lu, Wei %S Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations %D 2018 %8 November %I Association for Computational Linguistics %C Brussels, Belgium %F wang-etal-2018-cytonmt %X This paper presents an open-source neural machine translation toolkit named CytonMT. The toolkit is built from scratch only using C++ and NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated libraries. The toolkit features training efficiency, code simplicity and translation quality. Benchmarks show that cytonMT accelerates the training speed by 64.5% to 110.8% on neural networks of various sizes, and achieves competitive translation quality. %R 10.18653/v1/D18-2023 %U https://aclanthology.org/D18-2023 %U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/D18-2023 %P 133-138