GenTranslate: Large Language Models are Generative Multilingual Speech and Machine Translators

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Hauptverfasser: Hu, Yuchen, Chen, Chen, Yang, Chao-Han Huck, Li, Ruizhe, Zhang, Dong, Chen, Zhehuai, Chng, Eng Siong
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author Hu, Yuchen
Chen, Chen
Yang, Chao-Han Huck
Li, Ruizhe
Zhang, Dong
Chen, Zhehuai
Chng, Eng Siong
author_facet Hu, Yuchen
Chen, Chen
Yang, Chao-Han Huck
Li, Ruizhe
Zhang, Dong
Chen, Zhehuai
Chng, Eng Siong
contents Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have stepped forward the development of multilingual speech and machine translation by its reduced representation errors and incorporated external knowledge. However, both translation tasks typically utilize beam search decoding and top-1 hypothesis selection for inference. These techniques struggle to fully exploit the rich information in the diverse N-best hypotheses, making them less optimal for translation tasks that require a single, high-quality output sequence. In this paper, we propose a new generative paradigm for translation tasks, namely "GenTranslate", which builds upon LLMs to generate better results from the diverse translation versions in N-best list. Leveraging the rich linguistic knowledge and strong reasoning abilities of LLMs, our new paradigm can integrate the rich information in N-best candidates to generate a higher-quality translation result. Furthermore, to support LLM finetuning, we build and release a HypoTranslate dataset that contains over 592K hypotheses-translation pairs in 11 languages. Experiments on various speech and machine translation benchmarks (e.g., FLEURS, CoVoST-2, WMT) demonstrate that our GenTranslate significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art model.
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spellingShingle GenTranslate: Large Language Models are Generative Multilingual Speech and Machine Translators
Hu, Yuchen
Chen, Chen
Yang, Chao-Han Huck
Li, Ruizhe
Zhang, Dong
Chen, Zhehuai
Chng, Eng Siong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have stepped forward the development of multilingual speech and machine translation by its reduced representation errors and incorporated external knowledge. However, both translation tasks typically utilize beam search decoding and top-1 hypothesis selection for inference. These techniques struggle to fully exploit the rich information in the diverse N-best hypotheses, making them less optimal for translation tasks that require a single, high-quality output sequence. In this paper, we propose a new generative paradigm for translation tasks, namely "GenTranslate", which builds upon LLMs to generate better results from the diverse translation versions in N-best list. Leveraging the rich linguistic knowledge and strong reasoning abilities of LLMs, our new paradigm can integrate the rich information in N-best candidates to generate a higher-quality translation result. Furthermore, to support LLM finetuning, we build and release a HypoTranslate dataset that contains over 592K hypotheses-translation pairs in 11 languages. Experiments on various speech and machine translation benchmarks (e.g., FLEURS, CoVoST-2, WMT) demonstrate that our GenTranslate significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art model.
title GenTranslate: Large Language Models are Generative Multilingual Speech and Machine Translators
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06894