Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation: A Call for Clarity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.10577v1
• Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 12:15:22 GMT
• Title: Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation: A Call for Clarity
• Authors: Robin M. Schmidt, Telmo Pires, Stephan Peitz, Jonas L\"o\"of
• Abstract summary: We take a step back and revisit several techniques that have been proposed for improving non-autoregressive translation models. We provide novel insights for establishing strong baselines using length prediction or CTC-based architecture variants. We contribute standardized BLEU, chrF++, and TER scores using sacreBLEU on four translation tasks.
• Score: 3.1447111126465
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Non-autoregressive approaches aim to improve the inference speed of translation models by only requiring a single forward pass to generate the output sequence instead of iteratively producing each predicted token. Consequently, their translation quality still tends to be inferior to their autoregressive counterparts due to several issues involving output token interdependence. In this work, we take a step back and revisit several techniques that have been proposed for improving non-autoregressive translation models and compare their combined translation quality and speed implications under third-party testing environments. We provide novel insights for establishing strong baselines using length prediction or CTC-based architecture variants and contribute standardized BLEU, chrF++, and TER scores using sacreBLEU on four translation tasks, which crucially have been missing as inconsistencies in the use of tokenized BLEU lead to deviations of up to 1.7 BLEU points. Our open-sourced code is integrated into fairseq for reproducibility.

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