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Register a new userRevisiting the Weaknesses of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation
إعادة النظر في نقاط الضعف في التعزيز لتعليم الترجمة الآلية العصبية
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وجدت خوارزميات التدرج السياسي اعتماد واسع في NLP، لكنها أصبحت مؤخرا عرضة للنقد، مما يشك في ملاءمتها ل NMT.تشوشين وآخرون.(2020) حدد نقاط ضعف متعددة والشك في تحديد نجاحهم من خلال شكل توزيعات الإخراج بدلا من المكافأة.في هذه الورقة، نلتأكيد هذه المطالبات ودراسةها تحت مجموعة أوسع من التكوينات.تكشف تجاربنا على التكيف في المجال والمجال عبر المجال أهمية الاستكشاف والمكافآت، وتوفير الأدلة المضادة التجريبية لهذه المطالبات.
Policy gradient algorithms have found wide adoption in NLP, but have recently become subject to criticism, doubting their suitability for NMT. Choshen et al. (2020) identify multiple weaknesses and suspect that their success is determined by the shape of output distributions rather than the reward. In this paper, we revisit these claims and study them under a wider range of configurations. Our experiments on in-domain and cross-domain adaptation reveal the importance of exploration and reward scaling, and provide empirical counter-evidence to these claims.
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