In plain words: Instead of picking training sentences for one subject, it tags each sentence by how relevant it is to several subjects and gradually focuses on cleaner, more relevant batches. It matched or beat a translator built for each subject, and beat training without the schedule.
Abstract · Learning a Multi-Domain Curriculum for Neural Machine Translation
Most data selection research in machine translation focuses on improving a single domain. We perform data selection for multiple domains at once. This is achieved by carefully introducing instance-level domain-relevance features and automatically constructing a training curriculum to gradually concentrate on multi-domain relevant and noise-reduced data batches. Both the choice of features and the use of curriculum are crucial for balancing and improving all domains, including out-of-domain. In large-scale experiments, the multi-domain curriculum simultaneously reaches or outperforms the individual performance and brings solid gains over no-curriculum training.
Wei Wang, Ye Tian, Jiquan Ngiam, Yinfei Yang, Isaac Caswell, Zarana Parekh
arXiv:1908.10940 · cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Aug 28, 2019 · updated May 2, 2020
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted at ACL2020