Vega-MT: The JD Explore Academy Machine Translation System for WMT22
Changtong Zan, Keqin Peng, Liang Ding, Baopu Qiu, Boan Liu, Shwai He, Qingyu Lu, Zheng Zhang, Chuang Liu, Weifeng Liu, Yibing Zhan, Dacheng Tao
Abstract
We describe the JD Explore Academy’s submission of the WMT 2022 shared general translation task. We participated in all high-resource tracks and one medium-resource track, including Chinese-English, German-English, Czech-English, Russian-English, and Japanese-English. We push the limit of our previous work – bidirectional training for translation by scaling up two main factors, i.e. language pairs and model sizes, namely the {textbf{Vega-MT} system. As for language pairs, we scale the “bidirectional” up to the “multidirectional” settings, covering all participating languages, to exploit the common knowledge across languages, and transfer them to the downstream bilingual tasks. As for model sizes, we scale the Transformer-Big up to the extremely large model that owns nearly 4.7 Billion parameters, to fully enhance the model capacity for our Vega-MT. Also, we adopt the data augmentation strategies, e.g. cycle translation for monolingual data, and bidirectional self-training for bilingual and monolingual data, to comprehensively exploit the bilingual and monolingual data. To adapt our Vega-MT to the general domain test set, generalization tuning is designed. Based on the official automatic scores of constrained systems, in terms of the sacreBLEU shown in Figure-1, we got the 1st place on {Zh-En (33.5), En-Zh (49.7), De-En (33.7), En-De (37.8), Cs-En (54.9), En-Cs (41.4) and En-Ru (32.7)}, 2nd place on {Ru-En (45.1) and Ja-En (25.6)}, and 3rd place on {En-Ja(41.5)}, respectively; W.R.T the COMET, we got the 1st place on {Zh-En (45.1), En-Zh (61.7), De-En (58.0), En-De (63.2), Cs-En (74.7), Ru-En (64.9), En-Ru (69.6) and En-Ja (65.1)}, 2nd place on {En-Cs (95.3) and Ja-En (40.6)}, respectively. Models will be released to facilitate the MT community through GitHub and OmniForce Platform.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.wmt-1.37
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
- Venue:
- WMT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 411–422
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.wmt-1.37
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Changtong Zan, Keqin Peng, Liang Ding, Baopu Qiu, Boan Liu, Shwai He, Qingyu Lu, Zheng Zhang, Chuang Liu, Weifeng Liu, Yibing Zhan, and Dacheng Tao. 2022. Vega-MT: The JD Explore Academy Machine Translation System for WMT22. In Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), pages 411–422, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Vega-MT: The JD Explore Academy Machine Translation System for WMT22 (Zan et al., WMT 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/2022.wmt-1.37.pdf