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Mitigating Hallucinations and Off-target Machine Translation with Source-Contrastive and Language-Contrastive Decoding

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2024
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Sennrich, R., Vamvas, J., & Mohammadshahi, A. (2024). Mitigating Hallucinations and Off-target Machine Translation with Source-Contrastive and Language-Contrastive Decoding. 21–33. https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-short.4

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Hallucinations and off-target translation remain unsolved problems in MT, especially for low-resource languages and massively multilingual models. In this paper, we introduce two related methods to mitigate these failure cases with a modified decoding objective, without either requiring retraining or external models. In source-contrastive decoding, we search for a translation that is probable given the correct input, but improbable given a random input segment. In language-contrastive decoding, we search for a translation that is prob

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Proceedings of the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)

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St. Julian’s

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Malta

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2024-03-01

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2024-03-01

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21

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33

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English

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2024-08-22

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Sennrich, R., Vamvas, J., & Mohammadshahi, A. (2024). Mitigating Hallucinations and Off-target Machine Translation with Source-Contrastive and Language-Contrastive Decoding. 21–33. https://aclanthology.org/2024.eacl-short.4

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