Machine Translation Weekly 96: On Evaluation of Non-Autoregressive MT Systems
I often review papers on non-autoregressive machine translation a tend the repeat the same things in my reviews. The papers often compare non-comparable things to show the non-autoregressive models in a better light. Apart from the usual flaws in MT evaluation, non-autoregressive papers often (with honorable exceptions) get lost in the knowledge distillation setup. In general, papers tend to motivate non-autoregressive MT by potential speedup. Although it is an important motivation, it is not the main motivation for me. By […]
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