AdvAug: Robust Adversarial Augmentation for Neural Machine Translation (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent work in neural machine translation has led to dramatic improvements in both research and commercial systems. |
| Approach: | They propose a adversarial augmentation method for Neural Machine Translation that minimizes vicinal risk over virtual sentences . they use a novel vicinity distribution for adversarials to describe a smooth interpolated embedding space . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method outperforms the current method on Chinese-English, English-French, and English-German translation benchmarks. |
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