/THUMT

An open-source neural machine translation toolkit developed by Tsinghua Natural Language Processing Group

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THUMT: An Open Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation

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Introduction

Machine translation is a natural language processing task that aims to translate natural languages using computers automatically. Recent several years have witnessed the rapid development of end-to-end neural machine translation, which has become the new mainstream method in practical MT systems.

THUMT is an open-source toolkit for neural machine translation developed by the Natural Language Processing Group at Tsinghua University. The website of THUMT is: http://thumt.thunlp.org/.

Online Demo

The online demo of THUMT is available at http://translate.thumt.cn/. The languages involved include Ancient Chinese, Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Portugese, Russian, and Spanish.

Implementations

THUMT has currently three main implementations:

The following table summarizes the features of three implementations:

Implementation Model Criterion Optimizer LRP Additional Features
Theano RNNsearch MLE, MRT, SST SGD, AdaDelta, Adam RNNsearch N.A.
TensorFlow Seq2Seq, RNNsearch, Transformer MLE Adam RNNsearch, Transformer Distributed Training, Mixed Precision Training, Gradient Aggregation, Model Ensemble
PyTorch Transformer MLE SGD, Adadelta, Adam N.A. Distributed Training, Mixed Precision Training, Gradient Aggregation, Model Ensemble

We recommend using THUMT-TensorFlow or THUMT-PyTorch, which delivers better translation performance than THUMT-Theano. We will keep adding new features to THUMT-TensorFlow and THUMT-PyTorch.

It is also possible to exploit layer-wise relevance propagation to visualize the relevance between source and target words with THUMT:

Visualization with LRP

Notable Features

License

The source code is dual licensed. Open source licensing is under the BSD-3-Clause, which allows free use for research purposes. For commercial licensing, please email thumt17@gmail.com.

Citation

Please cite the following paper:

Jiacheng Zhang, Yanzhuo Ding, Shiqi Shen, Yong Cheng, Maosong Sun, Huanbo Luan, Yang Liu. 2017. THUMT: An Open Source Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation. arXiv:1706.06415.

Development Team

Project leaders: Maosong Sun, Yang Liu, Huanbo Luan

Project members: Jiacheng Zhang, Yanzhuo Ding, Shiqi Shen, Yong Cheng, Zhixing Tan

Contact

If you have questions, suggestions and bug reports, please email thumt17@gmail.com.

Derivative Repositories

  • UCE4BT (Improving Back-Translation with Uncertainty-based Confidence Estimation)
  • L2Copy4APE (Learning to Copy for Automatic Post-Editing)
  • Voting4SC (Modeling Voting for System Combination in Machine Translation)
  • Document-Transformer (Improving the Transformer Translation Model with Document-Level Context)
  • PR4NMT (Prior Knowledge Integration for Neural Machine Translation using Posterior Regularization)