Marian: Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Roman Grundkiewicz, Tomasz Dwojak, Hieu Hoang, Kenneth Heafield, Tom Neckermann, Frank Seide, Ulrich Germann, Alham Fikri Aji, Nikolay Bogoychev, André F. T. Martins, Alexandra Birch


Abstract
We present Marian, an efficient and self-contained Neural Machine Translation framework with an integrated automatic differentiation engine based on dynamic computation graphs. Marian is written entirely in C++. We describe the design of the encoder-decoder framework and demonstrate that a research-friendly toolkit can achieve high training and translation speed.
Anthology ID:
P18-4020
Volume:
Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations
Month:
July
Year:
2018
Address:
Melbourne, Australia
Editors:
Fei Liu, Thamar Solorio
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
116–121
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/P18-4020
DOI:
10.18653/v1/P18-4020
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Cite (ACL):
Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Roman Grundkiewicz, Tomasz Dwojak, Hieu Hoang, Kenneth Heafield, Tom Neckermann, Frank Seide, Ulrich Germann, Alham Fikri Aji, Nikolay Bogoychev, André F. T. Martins, and Alexandra Birch. 2018. Marian: Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++. In Proceedings of ACL 2018, System Demonstrations, pages 116–121, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Marian: Fast Neural Machine Translation in C++ (Junczys-Dowmunt et al., ACL 2018)
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PDF:
https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-2/P18-4020.pdf
Code
 marian-nmt/marian +  additional community code