| Challenge: | Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is an endto-end learning approach to machine translation. |
| Approach: | They propose a capsule network with dynamic routing for linear time Neural Machine Translation . they map the source sentence into a matrix with pre-determined size and apply a deep LSTM network to decode the target sequence from the source representation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed network achieves comparable results with the Transformer system on English-German and English-French tasks. |
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