Marian: Cost-effective High-Quality Neural Machine Translation in C++

Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Roman Grundkiewicz, Anthony Aue


Abstract
This paper describes the submissions of the “Marian” team to the WNMT 2018 shared task. We investigate combinations of teacher-student training, low-precision matrix products, auto-tuning and other methods to optimize the Transformer model on GPU and CPU. By further integrating these methods with the new averaging attention networks, a recently introduced faster Transformer variant, we create a number of high-quality, high-performance models on the GPU and CPU, dominating the Pareto frontier for this shared task.
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W18-2716
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Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation
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July
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2018
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Melbourne, Australia
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Alexandra Birch, Andrew Finch, Thang Luong, Graham Neubig, Yusuke Oda
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NGT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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129–135
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-2716
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-2716
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Marcin Junczys-Dowmunt, Kenneth Heafield, Hieu Hoang, Roman Grundkiewicz, and Anthony Aue. 2018. Marian: Cost-effective High-Quality Neural Machine Translation in C++. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Neural Machine Translation and Generation, pages 129–135, Melbourne, Australia. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Marian: Cost-effective High-Quality Neural Machine Translation in C++ (Junczys-Dowmunt et al., NGT 2018)
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