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Language Models are Good Translators

2021-06-25 13:30:29
Shuo Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Zhixing Tan, Wenxuan Wang, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the rapid advance in neural machine translation (NMT), the core of which lies in the encoder-decoder architecture. Inspired by the recent progress of large-scale pre-trained language models on machine translation in a limited scenario, we firstly demonstrate that a single language model (LM4MT) can achieve comparable performance with strong encoder-decoder NMT models on standard machine translation benchmarks, using the same training data and similar amount of model parameters. LM4MT can also easily utilize source-side texts as additional supervision. Though modeling the source- and target-language texts with the same mechanism, LM4MT can provide unified representations for both source and target sentences, which can better transfer knowledge across languages. Extensive experiments on pivot-based and zero-shot translation tasks show that LM4MT can outperform the encoder-decoder NMT model by a large margin.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13627

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.13627.pdf


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