Neural Machine Translation with Key-Value Memory-Augmented Attention
Abstract
Although attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has achieved remarkable progress in recent years, it still suffers from issues of repeating and dropping translations. To alleviate these issues, we propose a novel key-value memory-augmented attention model for NMT, called KVMEMATT. Specifically, we maintain a timely updated keymemory to keep track of attention history and a fixed value-memory to store the representation of source sentence throughout the whole translation process. Via nontrivial transformations and iterative interactions between the two memories, the decoder focuses on more appropriate source word(s) for predicting the next target word at each decoding step, therefore can improve the adequacy of translations. Experimental results on Chinese)English and WMT17 German,English translation tasks demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model.
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Meng et al. "Neural Machine Translation with Key-Value Memory-Augmented Attention." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018. doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2018/357Markdown
[Meng et al. "Neural Machine Translation with Key-Value Memory-Augmented Attention." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2018/meng2018ijcai-neural/) doi:10.24963/IJCAI.2018/357BibTeX
@inproceedings{meng2018ijcai-neural,
title = {{Neural Machine Translation with Key-Value Memory-Augmented Attention}},
author = {Meng, Fandong and Tu, Zhaopeng and Cheng, Yong and Wu, Haiyang and Zhai, Junjie and Yang, Yuekui and Wang, Di},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {2018},
pages = {2574-2580},
doi = {10.24963/IJCAI.2018/357},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2018/meng2018ijcai-neural/}
}