Fully Non-autoregressive Neural Machine Translation: Tricks of the Trade (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing non-autoregressive neural machine translation models are slow to learn the dependency between output tokens. |
| Approach: | They propose to use fully non-autoregressive neural machine translation (NAT) to predict tokens with single forward of neural networks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art results on three translation benchmarks with comparable performance to autoregressive and iterative NAT systems. |
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