Conversational SimulMT: Efficient Simultaneous Translation with Large Language Models

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Minghan, Vu, Thuy-Trang, Wang, Yuxia, Shareghi, Ehsan, Haffari, Gholamreza
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author Wang, Minghan
Vu, Thuy-Trang
Wang, Yuxia
Shareghi, Ehsan
Haffari, Gholamreza
author_facet Wang, Minghan
Vu, Thuy-Trang
Wang, Yuxia
Shareghi, Ehsan
Haffari, Gholamreza
contents Simultaneous machine translation (SimulMT) presents a challenging trade-off between translation quality and latency. Recent studies have shown that LLMs can achieve good performance in SimulMT tasks. However, this often comes at the expense of high inference cost and latency. In this paper, we propose a conversational SimulMT framework to enhance the inference efficiency of LLM-based SimulMT through multi-turn-dialogue-based decoding. Our experiments with Llama2-7b-chat on two SimulMT benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of LLM in translation quality while achieving comparable computational latency to specialized SimulMT models.
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spellingShingle Conversational SimulMT: Efficient Simultaneous Translation with Large Language Models
Wang, Minghan
Vu, Thuy-Trang
Wang, Yuxia
Shareghi, Ehsan
Haffari, Gholamreza
Computation and Language
Simultaneous machine translation (SimulMT) presents a challenging trade-off between translation quality and latency. Recent studies have shown that LLMs can achieve good performance in SimulMT tasks. However, this often comes at the expense of high inference cost and latency. In this paper, we propose a conversational SimulMT framework to enhance the inference efficiency of LLM-based SimulMT through multi-turn-dialogue-based decoding. Our experiments with Llama2-7b-chat on two SimulMT benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of LLM in translation quality while achieving comparable computational latency to specialized SimulMT models.
title Conversational SimulMT: Efficient Simultaneous Translation with Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10552