Depth Growing for Neural Machine Translation
Lijun Wu, Yiren Wang, Yingce Xia, Fei Tian, Fei Gao, Tao Qin, Jianhuang Lai, Tie-Yan Liu
Abstract
While very deep neural networks have shown effectiveness for computer vision and text classification applications, how to increase the network depth of the neural machine translation (NMT) models for better translation quality remains a challenging problem. Directly stacking more blocks to the NMT model results in no improvement and even drop in performance. In this work, we propose an effective two-stage approach with three specially designed components to construct deeper NMT models, which result in significant improvements over the strong Transformer baselines on WMT14 English→German and English→French translation tasks.- Anthology ID:
- P19-1558
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Florence, Italy
- Editors:
- Anna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 5558–5563
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/P19-1558
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/P19-1558
- Cite (ACL):
- Lijun Wu, Yiren Wang, Yingce Xia, Fei Tian, Fei Gao, Tao Qin, Jianhuang Lai, and Tie-Yan Liu. 2019. Depth Growing for Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 5558–5563, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Depth Growing for Neural Machine Translation (Wu et al., ACL 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/P19-1558.pdf
- Code
- apeterswu/Depth_Growing_NMT
- Data
- WMT 2014