Addressing Posterior Collapse with Mutual Information for Improved Variational Neural Machine Translation (2020.acl-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing variational inference models ignore their latent variables, a phenomenon called posterior collapse. |
| Approach: | They propose a new loss function for conditional variational autoencoders that counteracts posterior collapse by using a modified evidence lower bound objective and a factorized decoder. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model yields improved translation quality compared to existing models on WMT RoEn and DeEn. |
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