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Scaling Neural Machine Translation

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Ott, Myle, Edunov, Sergey, Grangier, David, Auli, Michael·2018·Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers

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Sequence to sequence learning models still require several days to reach state of the art performance on large benchmark datasets using a single machine.This paper shows that reduced precision and large batch training can speedup training by nearly 5x on a single 8-GPU machine with careful tuning and implementation.1 On WMT'14 English-German translation, we match the accuracy of Vaswani et al. (2017) in under 5 hours when training on 8 GPUs and we obtain a new state of the art of 29.3 BLEU after training for 85 minutes on 128 GPUs.We further improve these results to 29.8 BLEU by training on the much larger Paracrawl dataset.On the WMT'14 English-French task, we obtain a state-of-the-art BLEU of 43.2 in 8.5 hours on 128 GPUs.

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Authors
Ott, M., Edunov, S., Grangier, D., & Auli, M.
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Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers
Published
2018
Pages
1-9
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544
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conference paper
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en
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Ott, M., Edunov, S., Grangier, D., & Auli, M. (2018). Scaling Neural Machine Translation. Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Research Papers. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/w18-6301

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