Summary of Advancing Translation Preference Modeling with Rlhf: a Step Towards Cost-effective Solution, by Nuo Xu et al.
Advancing Translation Preference Modeling with RLHF: A Step Towards Cost-Effective Solution
by Nuo Xu, Jun Zhao, Can Zu, Sixian Li, Lu Chen, Zhihao Zhang, Rui Zheng, Shihan Dou, Wenjuan Qin, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper explores innovative approaches to machine translation by leveraging reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) to improve translation quality. This method, which optimizes reward models by distinguishing between human and machine translations, can effectively enhance translation quality and benefits other translation directions not trained with RLHF. The authors propose a cost-effective preference learning strategy that addresses the challenge of collecting high-quality datasets for low-resource languages. Experimental results demonstrate that RLHF can improve machine translation quality and that language capabilities play a crucial role in preference learning. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about using artificial intelligence to make translations better. Right now, there’s no perfect way to measure how good a translation is, but the authors have found a new approach called reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF). This method helps machines learn what makes a translation good by comparing it to what humans would do. The paper shows that this approach can improve machine translations and make them better in general. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Reinforcement learning * Rlhf * Translation
