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title = "{T}ran{SF}ormer: Slow-Fast Transformer for Machine Translation",
author = "Li, Bei and
Jing, Yi and
Tan, Xu and
Xing, Zhen and
Xiao, Tong and
Zhu, Jingbo",
editor = "Rogers, Anna and
Boyd-Graber, Jordan and
Okazaki, Naoaki",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
month = jul,
year = "2023",
address = "Toronto, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.430",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.430",
pages = "6883--6896",
abstract = "Learning multiscale Transformer models has been evidenced as a viable approach to augmenting machine translation systems. Prior research has primarily focused on treating subwords as basic units in developing such systems. However, the incorporation of fine-grained character-level features into multiscale Transformer has not yet been explored. In this work, we present a \textbf{S}low-\textbf{F}ast two-stream learning model, referred to as Tran\textbf{SF}ormer, which utilizes a {``}slow{''} branch to deal with subword sequences and a {``}fast{''} branch to deal with longer character sequences. This model is efficient since the fast branch is very lightweight by reducing the model width, and yet provides useful fine-grained features for the slow branch. Our TranSFormer shows consistent BLEU improvements (larger than 1 BLEU point) on several machine translation benchmarks.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T TranSFormer: Slow-Fast Transformer for Machine Translation
%A Li, Bei
%A Jing, Yi
%A Tan, Xu
%A Xing, Zhen
%A Xiao, Tong
%A Zhu, Jingbo
%Y Rogers, Anna
%Y Boyd-Graber, Jordan
%Y Okazaki, Naoaki
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
%D 2023
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Toronto, Canada
%F li-etal-2023-transformer
%X Learning multiscale Transformer models has been evidenced as a viable approach to augmenting machine translation systems. Prior research has primarily focused on treating subwords as basic units in developing such systems. However, the incorporation of fine-grained character-level features into multiscale Transformer has not yet been explored. In this work, we present a Slow-Fast two-stream learning model, referred to as TranSFormer, which utilizes a “slow” branch to deal with subword sequences and a “fast” branch to deal with longer character sequences. This model is efficient since the fast branch is very lightweight by reducing the model width, and yet provides useful fine-grained features for the slow branch. Our TranSFormer shows consistent BLEU improvements (larger than 1 BLEU point) on several machine translation benchmarks.
%R 10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.430
%U https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.430
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.430
%P 6883-6896
Markdown (Informal)
[TranSFormer: Slow-Fast Transformer for Machine Translation](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.430) (Li et al., Findings 2023)
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