[New paper] If you are sampling multiple outputs from a teacher LLM (e.g., Gemini 1.5 GPT), ranking them, and fine-tuning the student on the best output, you can do better. Simple idea: Fine-tune / Distill on the top-k outputs instead. Consistent gains on machine translation.

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🥳 LLMs are changing the game, even for datasets! NewsPaLM, a publicly released LLM-generated dataset, outperforms larger web-crawled corpora for MT. It includes sentence & paragraph-level, MBR-decoded data. See paper for more, incl. LLM self-distillation. arxiv.org/abs/2408.06537

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Translation is a complex task involving pre-translation research and post-translation stages. Can #LLMs handle this process step-by-step, relying solely on their internal knowledge? ✨We show that decomposing the translation process significantly improves #Gemini translation

[1/5] Are verbose #LLM translations skewing evaluation results? TLDR: Yes! Our recent work dives into the prevalence and impact of LLM verbosity in automatic and human evaluations. 📎 Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.00863

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Researchers from Google reveal that verbose #LLMs, 🤖 which offer multiple translations 🔄 or refuse to translate, 🚫 pose significant challenges ⚠️ to traditional #MT evaluation frameworks. #machinetranslation Eleftheria Briakou Colin Cherry Markus Freitag slator.com/google-finds-r…

Interested in doing research on Google Translate and Gemini? Good news! I’m hiring for full-time roles on the Google Translate Research Team! Apply here: google.com/about/careers/…

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LLMs are typically evaluated w/ automatic metrics on standard test sets, but metrics + test sets are developed independently. This raises a crucial question: Can we design automatic metrics specifically to excel on the test sets we prioritize? Answer: Yes! arxiv.org/abs/2411.15387

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😼SMOL DATA ALERT! 😼Anouncing SMOL, a professionally-translated dataset for 115 very low-resource languages! Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12301 Huggingface: huggingface.co/datasets/googl…

Externally retrieving knowledge empowers LLMs for domain-adapted MT ⚖️🩺. But how is knowledge best represented, and how viable is generating it from an LLM itself? Our Google AI paper investigates these questions through a careful experimental setup 📜. arxiv.org/abs/2503.05010

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