Ling Shi
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2026
Wayfinder: An Agentic Ensemble-and-Postcheck System for WMT26 GenMT
Liangying Shao | Xinwei Wu | Yichong Huang | Jifang Wang | Ruoxi Xu | Ling Shi | Baosong Yang | Linlong Xu
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
Liangying Shao | Xinwei Wu | Yichong Huang | Jifang Wang | Ruoxi Xu | Ling Shi | Baosong Yang | Linlong Xu
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
This paper presents Wayfinder, our submission system for the WMT26 General Machine Translation (GenMT) shared task. GenMT evaluates document-level translation under natural-language instructions, where structural preservation, formatting constraints, and output cleanliness are part of translation quality. Rather than training a new translation model, Wayfinder treats four API-based system outputs as a document-level candidate pool and produces one final hypothesis through a four-stage agentic pipeline. It aggregates source, instruction, metadata, candidates, and a DeepSeek-V4-Pro ranking-then-scoring signal; applies an anonymized pick-or-rewrite agent; and runs a conservative postcheck for severe objective defects. During development, a judge-guided loop compares outputs with a GPT-5.5 baseline, analyzes loss cases, updates prompts and repair constraints, and selectively reprocesses difficult documents. In automatic pairwise evaluation against GPT-5.5, Wayfinder obtains a pooled document-level weighted win rate of 0.6537 and remains above parity in every evaluated direction. The results suggest that candidate-pool translation, constrained agentic selection, conservative repair, and selective judge-guided iteration are practical components for instruction-conditioned shared-task MT.