Study measures gender bias in machine translation using multiple reference points.
problem Measuring and identifying gender bias in machine translation.
method Used an optimal non-biased translator, reference points from occupational statistics and survey.
result Found bias against both genders, but more against women, and found occupations have a greater effect than adjectives.
We view molecular optimization as a graph-to-graph translation problem. The goal is to learn to map from one molecular graph to another with better properties based on an available corpus of paired molecules. Since molecules can be optimized in different ways, there are multiple viable translations for each input graph…
BBRT improves molecular properties through iterative translation.
problem Optimizing molecular structures for improved biochemical properties.
method Iterative translation of molecules using a black box approach.
result Improvement in molecular properties with each iteration of the translator.
We provide the construction of a set of square matrices whose translates and rotates provide a Parseval frame that is optimal for approximating a given dataset of images. Our approach is based on abstract harmonic analysis techniques. Optimality is considered with respect to the quadratic error of approximation of the …
We prove some non-existence theorems for translating solutions to Lagrangian mean curvature flow. More precisely, we show that translating solutions with an L2 bound on the mean curvature are planes and that almost-calibrated translating solutions which are static are also planes. Recent work of D. Joyce, Y.-I. Lee,…
Study finds optimal vocabulary size for neural machine translation.
problem Imbalanced class distribution in language data affects NMT performance.
method Casts NMT as a classification task, analyzes vocabulary sizes, and tests multiple languages.
result Certain vocabulary sizes outperform others, explaining NMT performance.
This paper develops optimal transport methods on the roto-translation group SE2.
problem Optimal transport on the roto-translation group SE2 for image analysis.
method Develops a computational framework for optimal transportation over Lie groups, focusing on SE2. Uses Sinkhorn-like algorithm with efficient distance approximations.
result Advances in image barycentric interpolation, orientation field interpolation, and Wasserstein flows on SE2.
Cyclical learning rate improves neural machine translation performance.
problem Optimizing learning rate for neural machine translation.
method Applied cyclical learning rate to transformer-based neural networks.
result Cyclical learning rate significantly impacts neural machine translation performance.
The paper tightens bounds for estimating Schrödinger potentials in unpaired data translation.
problem Estimating Schrödinger potentials in unpaired data translation.
method Using stochastic optimal control and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, the paper derives tight bounds on the generalization ability of an empirical risk minimizer.
result The approach achieves almost optimal convergence rates for Gaussian mixtures.
This paper uses LLMs and cycle consistency for better machine translation evaluation.
problem Evaluating translation quality and LLM capabilities without ground truth.
method Generate translation candidates, back-translate, and evaluate cycle consistency.
result Larger LLMs or more inference passes improve cycle consistency.
NOT learns optimal transport plans, kernel costs improve performance.
problem NOT algorithm learns non-optimal plans with weak quadratic costs.
method Introduced kernel weak quadratic costs to improve NOT's performance.
result Kernel costs provide improved theoretical and practical guarantees.
Optimal transport aligns source and target distributions for linear regression in 2D.
problem Domain adaptation for linear regression in 2D with limited target data.
method Combining K-means and optimal transport for estimating geometric transformations.
result Optimal transport recovers geometric transformations like rotations, translations, and homotheties.
The paper introduces a method to assess machine translation quality with confidence intervals.
problem Evaluating the uncertainty and quality of machine translation.
method Utilizes conformal predictive distributions to produce prediction intervals with guaranteed coverage.
result The method outperforms a baseline on six language pairs in terms of coverage and sharpness.
Generalization and reliability of multilingual translation often highly depend on the amount of available parallel data for each language pair of interest. In this paper, we focus on zero-shot generalization---a challenging setup that tests models on translation directions they have not been optimized for at training t…
Domain Translation is the problem of finding a meaningful correspondence between two domains. Since in a majority of settings paired supervision is not available, much work focuses on Unsupervised Domain Translation (UDT) where data samples from each domain are unpaired. Following the seminal work of CycleGAN for UDT, …
New research optimizes HSIC estimation rate for translation-invariant kernels.
problem Optimizing the rate of HSIC estimation for translation-invariant kernels.
method Proved minimax optimal rate of O(n−1/2) for HSIC estimation. result Optimality of various HSIC estimators proven.
Given φ a pseudo-Anosov map, let ℓT(φ) denote the translation length of φ in the Teichmüller space, and let ℓC(φ) denote the stable translation length of φ in the curve graph. Gadre--Hironaka--Kent--Leininger showed that, as a function of Euler characteristic χ(S), the minimal po…
Classical Machine Learning (ML) pipelines often comprise of multiple ML models where models, within a pipeline, are trained in isolation. Conversely, when training neural network models, layers composing the neural models are simultaneously trained using backpropagation. We argue that the isolated training scheme of ML…
Paper introduces a novel map learning algorithm for domain translation and adaptation.
problem Learning a map between related data spaces that can be applied to out-of-sample data and satisfies application-specific constraints.
method Utilizes normalizing flows to parameterize a map that minimizes a probability distance and application-specific regularizers, solving a modified optimal transport problem.
result The proposed method (parOT) outperforms existing optimal transport approaches in domain adaptation and translation tasks.
The study examines translation lengths of pseudo-Anosov maps on curve graphs.
problem Estimating translation lengths of pseudo-Anosov maps on curve graphs.
method Analyzing geodesic axes and powers of Dehn twists.
result Determining minimal translation lengths and optimizing map ratios.
OTRE uses OT to improve retinal images, outperforming existing methods.
problem Improving quality of non-mydriatic retinal images for accurate diagnoses.
method OT theory for image-to-image translation, regularization by enhancing.
result OTRE outperforms state-of-the-art methods on various retinal image tasks.
The goal of counterfactual learning for statistical machine translation (SMT) is to optimize a target SMT system from logged data that consist of user feedback to translations that were predicted by another, historic SMT system. A challenge arises by the fact that risk-averse commercial SMT systems deterministically lo…
Despite some empirical success at correcting exposure bias in machine translation, scheduled sampling algorithms suffer from a major drawback: they incorrectly assume that words in the reference translations and in sampled sequences are aligned at each time step. Our new differentiable sampling algorithm addresses this…
The problem of accelerating drug discovery relies heavily on automatic tools to optimize precursor molecules to afford them with better biochemical properties. Our work in this paper substantially extends prior state-of-the-art on graph-to-graph translation methods for molecular optimization. In particular, we realize …
New algorithm computes Schrödinger Bridge for unpaired data translation.
problem Computing optimal transport maps for unpaired data translation.
method Schrödinger Bridge Flow, a discretization of a flow of path measures.
result Eliminates the need to train multiple DDM-like models.
Adaptive gradient-based optimizers such as Adagrad and Adam are crucial for achieving state-of-the-art performance in machine translation and language modeling. However, these methods maintain second-order statistics for each parameter, thus introducing significant memory overheads that restrict the size of the model b…
Empirical law predicts accuracy of Google Translate's translation chains.
problem Predicting accuracy in machine translation with multiple hops.
method Empirical testing of Google Translate's sequential translation.
result Accuracy decreases with the number of translating hops, following a power law.
The authors of (Cho et al., 2014a) have shown that the recently introduced neural network translation systems suffer from a significant drop in translation quality when translating long sentences, unlike existing phrase-based translation systems. In this paper, we propose a way to address this issue by automatically se…
Introduces new Wasserstein distances for more intrinsic metrics.
problem Improve metric for comparing distributions.
method Introduces RWp distances, designs algorithms for computation. result New distances are more intrinsic and computable.
Improves ASR accuracy for domain mismatch using machine translation.
problem Domain mismatch in ASR systems leads to suboptimal results.
method Machine translation to map out-of-domain ASR errors to in-domain terms.
result 7% absolute improvement in word error rate, 4 point BLEU score improvement.
We Microsoft Research Asia made submissions to 11 language directions in the WMT19 news translation tasks. We won the first place for 8 of the 11 directions and the second place for the other three. Our basic systems are built on Transformer, back translation and knowledge distillation. We integrate several of our rece…
Paper proposes a method to learn word translations bidirectionally.
problem Word translation between languages.
method Jointly learns translations in both directions with minimal supervision.
result Improves accuracy of translations over previous methods.
Study on rigidity of translating hypersurfaces not in graphical direction.
problem Rigidity of translating hypersurfaces not in graphical direction.
method Proved rigidity results for complete graphical translating hypersurfaces under specific conditions.
result Entire graphical translating surfaces are flat under certain conditions.
The natural automorphism group of a translation surface is its group of translations. For finite translation surfaces of genus g > 1 the order of this group is naturally bounded in terms of g due to a Riemann-Hurwitz formula argument. In analogy with classical Hurwitz surfaces, we call surfaces which achieve the maxima…
Researchers classify and describe Kα-translators in Euclidean space.
problem Classifying and describing Kα-translators in Euclidean space. method Rotationally symmetric and helicoidal motions.
result For each α, there is a Kα-translator intersecting orthogonally the rotation axis. Study on stable translation lengths of surface homeomorphisms and their approximations.
problem Understanding stable translation lengths of homeomorphisms and their finite approximations.
method Comparing stable translation lengths of homeomorphisms and their finite approximations on curve graphs.
result Stable translation length of homeomorphisms with dense periodic points equals the supremum of their approximations.
The quality of machine translation is rapidly evolving. Today one can find several machine translation systems on the web that provide reasonable translations, although the systems are not perfect. In some specific domains, the quality may decrease. A recently proposed approach to this domain is neural machine translat…
Transformer models align words through attention weights, closely approximating Optimal Transport.
problem Understanding the internal mechanism of transformer models in language processing.
method Empirical evidence and theoretical analysis of attention weights and their relation to Optimal Transport.
result Transformer models can simulate gradient descent on the dual of entropy-regularized OT problem, providing a theoretical foundation for token alignment.
Classifies and constructs translators for curvature flows.
problem Understanding translating solitons in curvature flows.
method Developed rotational theory, introduced signed-neck framework.
result Classified and constructed catenoidal-type translators.
Paper finds a non-existence theorem for certain translators in high dimensions.
problem Non-existence of certain translators in high-dimensional spaces.
method Developed a non-existence theorem and found an example of a translator.
result Non-existence of entire Qn−1-translators in Rn+1. Constructing translating solitons from Lagrangian Grim Reapers.
problem Creating Lagrangian translating solitons from intersections of Grim Reapers.
method Desingularizing intersections with special Lagrangian Lawlor necks.
result Constructing Lagrangian translating solitons with multiple ends and loops.
Study classifies translators for mean curvature flow in 3D.
problem Classifying semigraphical translators for mean curvature flow in R3. method Morse-Radó theory and angular maximum principle.
result No solution to the translator equation on the upper half-plane with alternating boundary values.
Study on singular points of translation surfaces under linearly dependent conditions.
problem Investigate singular points of translation surfaces under linearly dependent conditions.
method Use theories of generalised framed surfaces and framed surfaces.
result Introduce translation generalised framed surfaces and investigate their singular points.
Proves uniqueness of translators in 3D space.
problem Uniqueness of pitchfork and helicoid translators in mean curvature flow.
method Arc-counting argument and rotational maximum principle.
result Proves conjecture on uniqueness of translators.
An NMT system for Indic languages outperforms Google Translate.
problem Challenges in translating Indic languages efficiently.
method Encoder-decoder with attention mechanism for neural machine translation.
result Outperforms Google Translate with a 6 BLEU score margin on English-Gujarati translation.
New families of translation surfaces with multiple oblivious points discovered.
problem Identifying points on translation surfaces without nearby closed geodesics.
method Constructing new families of translation surfaces and proving existence in higher genera.
result Translation surfaces in every genus ≥3 have at least one oblivious point.
In this article we prove two non-existence results for translating solitons of the mean curvature flow (translators for short) in Rm+1. We also obtain an upper bound to the maximum height that a compact embedded translator in R3 can achieve. On the other hand, we study graphical perturbation…
This paper classifies grim reapers in a specific product space.
problem Classifying grim reapers in a product space.
method Analyzing mean curvature flow and translations in $\h^2 imes
$.
result A full classification of grim reapers in $\h^2 imes
$.