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Journal Articles


HW-TSC 2024 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task

Published in Workshop, 2024

This paper focuses on Huawei Translation Services Center’s (HW-TSC’s) submission to the sentence-level QE shared task.

Recommended citation: Shan W, Zhu M, Li Y, et al. HW-TSC 2024 Submission for the Quality Estimation Shared Task[C]//Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation. 2024: 535-540.
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The NiuTrans Machine Translation Systems for WMT22

Published in Workshop, 2022

Our models are based on several advanced Transformer variants, e.g., Transformer-ODE, Universal Multiscale Transformer (UMST). The main workflow consists of data filtering, large-scale data augmentation (i.e., iterative back-translation, iterative knowledge distillation), and specific-domain fine-tuning.

Recommended citation: Zhang Y, Wang Z, Cao R, et al. The niutrans machine translation systems for wmt20[C]//Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation. 2020: 338-345.
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Conference Papers


[Co-author] Leveraging Unit Language Guidance to Advance Speech Modeling in Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation

Published in ACL 2025 Fingdings, 2025

We propose the unit language to overcome the two modeling challenges. The unit language can be considered a text-like representation format, constructed using n-gram language modeling.

Recommended citation: Zhang Y, Ma X, Kou K, et al. Leveraging Unit Language Guidance to Advance Speech Modeling in Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.15333, 2025.
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Optimizing Speech Multi-View Feature Fusion through Conditional Computation

Published in ICASSP IEEE, 2024

We propose a novel generalized feature fusion framework grounded in conditional computation, mitigates feature conflicts and bolsters model robustness to multi-view input features.

Recommended citation: Shan W, Zhang Y, Han Y, et al. Optimizing Speech Multi-View Feature Fusion through Conditional Computation[C]//ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE, 2025: 1-5.
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[Co-author] PartialFormer: Modeling Part Instead of Whole for Machine Translation

Published in ACL 2024 Fingdings, 2024

We introduce PartialFormer, a parameter-efficient Transformer architecture utilizing multiple smaller FFNs to reduce parameters and computation while maintaining essential hidden dimensions.

Recommended citation: Zhang Y, Ma X, Kou K, et al. Leveraging Unit Language Guidance to Advance Speech Modeling in Textless Speech-to-Speech Translation[J]. arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.15333, 2025.
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