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Main Authors: Mickus, Timothee, Vázquez, Raúl, Attieh, Joseph
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17918
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author Mickus, Timothee
Vázquez, Raúl
Attieh, Joseph
author_facet Mickus, Timothee
Vázquez, Raúl
Attieh, Joseph
contents Modularity is a paradigm of machine translation with the potential of bringing forth models that are large at training time and small during inference. Within this field of study, modular approaches, and in particular attention bridges, have been argued to improve the generalization capabilities of models by fostering language-independent representations. In the present paper, we study whether modularity affects translation quality; as well as how well modular architectures generalize across different evaluation scenarios. For a given computational budget, we find non-modular architectures to be always comparable or preferable to all modular designs we study.
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spellingShingle I Have an Attention Bridge to Sell You: Generalization Capabilities of Modular Translation Architectures
Mickus, Timothee
Vázquez, Raúl
Attieh, Joseph
Computation and Language
Modularity is a paradigm of machine translation with the potential of bringing forth models that are large at training time and small during inference. Within this field of study, modular approaches, and in particular attention bridges, have been argued to improve the generalization capabilities of models by fostering language-independent representations. In the present paper, we study whether modularity affects translation quality; as well as how well modular architectures generalize across different evaluation scenarios. For a given computational budget, we find non-modular architectures to be always comparable or preferable to all modular designs we study.
title I Have an Attention Bridge to Sell You: Generalization Capabilities of Modular Translation Architectures
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17918