2025
Beyond the Mode: Sequence-Level Distillation of Multilingual Translation Models for Low-Resource Language Pairs
Aarón Galiano-Jiménez, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena
NAACL 2025findings
This paper delves into sequence-level knowledge distillation (KD) of multilingual pre-trained translation models. We posit that, beyond the approximated mode obtained via beam search, the whole output distribution of the teacher contains valuable insights for students. We explore the potential of n-…