This model can be used for translating text in source language (En) to a text in target language (Zh).
The model is based on Transformer "Big" architecture originally presented in "Attention Is All You Need" paper [1]. In this particular instance, the model has 6 layers in the encoder and 6 layers in the decoder. It is using YouTokenToMe tokenizer [2].
These models were trained on a collection of many publicly available datasets comprising of millions of parallel sentences. The NeMo toolkit [5] was used for training this model over roughly 300k steps.
While training this model, we used the following datasets:
We used the YouTokenToMe tokenizer [2] with separate encoder and decoder BPE tokenizers.
The accuracy of translation models are often measured using BLEU scores [3]. The model achieves the following sacreBLEU [4] scores on the WMT'18, WMT'19 and WMT'20 test sets
WMT18 - 35.0
WMT19 - 30.6
WMT20 - 36.4
The model is available for use in the NeMo toolkit [5], and can be used as a pre-trained checkpoint for inference or for fine-tuning on another dataset.
import nemo
import nemo.collections.nlp as nemo_nlp
nmt_model = nemo_nlp.models.machine_translation.MTEncDecModel.from_pretrained(model_name="nmt_en_zh_transformer6x6")
python [NEMO_GIT_FOLDER]/examples/nlp/machine_translation/nmt_transformer_infer.py --model=nmt_en_zh_transformer6x6.nemo --srctext=[TEXT_IN_SRC_LANGUAGE] --tgtout=[WHERE_TO_SAVE_TRANSLATIONS] --target_lang zh --source_lang en
This translate method of the NMT model accepts a list of de-tokenized strings.
The translate method outputs a list of de-tokenized strings in the target language.
No known limitations at this time.
[1] Vaswani, Ashish, et al. "Attention is all you need." arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03762 (2017).
[2] https://github.com/VKCOM/YouTokenToMe
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLEU
[4] https://github.com/mjpost/sacreBLEU
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