@inproceedings{bapna-etal-2018-training,
    title = "Training Deeper Neural Machine Translation Models with Transparent Attention",
    author = "Bapna, Ankur  and
      Chen, Mia  and
      Firat, Orhan  and
      Cao, Yuan  and
      Wu, Yonghui",
    editor = "Riloff, Ellen  and
      Chiang, David  and
      Hockenmaier, Julia  and
      Tsujii, Jun{'}ichi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct # "-" # nov,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Brussels, Belgium",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/D18-1338/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/D18-1338",
    pages = "3028--3033",
    abstract = "While current state-of-the-art NMT models, such as RNN seq2seq and Transformers, possess a large number of parameters, they are still shallow in comparison to convolutional models used for both text and vision applications. In this work we attempt to train significantly (2-3x) deeper Transformer and Bi-RNN encoders for machine translation. We propose a simple modification to the attention mechanism that eases the optimization of deeper models, and results in consistent gains of 0.7-1.1 BLEU on the benchmark WMT{'}14 English-German and WMT{'}15 Czech-English tasks for both architectures."
}