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Shallow-to-Deep Training for Neural Machine Translation

8 October 2020
Bei Li
Ziyang Wang
Hui Liu
Yufan Jiang
Quan Du
Tong Xiao
Huizhen Wang
Jingbo Zhu
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Abstract

Deep encoders have been proven to be effective in improving neural machine translation (NMT) systems, but training an extremely deep encoder is time consuming. Moreover, why deep models help NMT is an open question. In this paper, we investigate the behavior of a well-tuned deep Transformer system. We find that stacking layers is helpful in improving the representation ability of NMT models and adjacent layers perform similarly. This inspires us to develop a shallow-to-deep training method that learns deep models by stacking shallow models. In this way, we successfully train a Transformer system with a 54-layer encoder. Experimental results on WMT'16 English-German and WMT'14 English-French translation tasks show that it is 1.41.41.4 ×\times× faster than training from scratch, and achieves a BLEU score of 30.3330.3330.33 and 43.2943.2943.29 on two tasks. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/libeineu/SDT-Training/.

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