Integrating Pre-trained Language Model into Neural Machine Translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19680v4
• Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:39:10 GMT
• Title: Integrating Pre-trained Language Model into Neural Machine Translation
• Authors: Soon-Jae Hwang, Chang-Sung Jeong
• Abstract summary: The deficiency of high-quality bilingual language pair data poses a major challenge to improving NMT performance. Recent studies have been exploring the use of contextual information from pre-trained language model (PLM) to address this problem. This study proposes PLM-integrated NMT model to overcome the identified problems.
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• Abstract: Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has become a significant technology in natural language processing through extensive research and development. However, the deficiency of high-quality bilingual language pair data still poses a major challenge to improving NMT performance. Recent studies have been exploring the use of contextual information from pre-trained language model (PLM) to address this problem. Yet, the issue of incompatibility between PLM and NMT model remains unresolved. This study proposes PLM-integrated NMT (PiNMT) model to overcome the identified problems. PiNMT model consists of three critical components, PLM Multi Layer Converter, Embedding Fusion, and Cosine Alignment, each playing a vital role in providing effective PLM information to NMT. Furthermore, two training strategies, Separate Learning Rates and Dual Step Training, are also introduced in this paper. By implementing the proposed PiNMT model and training strategy, we achieve state-of-the-art performance on the IWSLT'14 En$\leftrightarrow$De dataset. This study's outcomes are noteworthy as they demonstrate a novel approach for efficiently integrating PLM with NMT to overcome incompatibility and enhance performance.

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