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Meta-Curriculum Learning for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation

3 Mar 2021arXiv:2103.02262archive 2025-07-28

Runzhe Zhan, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao

Meta-learning has been sufficiently validated to be beneficial for low-resource neural machine translation (NMT). However, we find that meta-trained NMT fails to improve the translation performance of the domain unseen at the meta-training stage. In this paper, we aim to alleviate this issue by proposing a novel meta-curriculum learning for domain adaptation in NMT. During meta-training, the NMT first learns the similar curricula from each domain to avoid falling into a bad local optimum early, and finally learns the curricula of individualities to improve the model robustness for learning domain-specific knowledge. Experimental results on 10 different low-resource domains show that meta-curriculum learning can improve the translation performance of both familiar and unfamiliar domains. All the codes and data are freely available at https://github.com/NLP2CT/Meta-Curriculum.

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Domain AdaptationLow Resource Neural Machine TranslationLow-Resource Neural Machine TranslationMachine TranslationMeta-LearningNMTTranslation

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