In this work, we create a true Many-to-Many multilingual translation model that can translate directly between any pair of 100 languages. Our focus on non-English-Centric models brings gains of more than 10 BLEU when directly translating between non-English directions while performing competitively with the best single systems of WMT.
If you are new to using fairseq, read the following walkthrough. Otherwise, skip to the sections below.
0.**Generation Data**
To download the generation data, follow the below commands. Note that all datasets need to be detokenized *before* applying SPM in the data preprocessing step. If you use these evaluation datasets, please cite their associated papers.
# request to download: https://repo.sadilar.org/handle/20.500.12185/397
# Tatoeba Challenge
# available here: https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/Tatoeba-Challenge
```
1.**Training Data**
To produce the training data, we use a combination of [CCMatrix](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04944) and [CCAligned](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.06154). Check out the instructions [here](https://github.com/facebookresearch/LASER/tree/master/tasks/CCMatrix) to download the raw data.
2.**Preprocess Data**
After downloading raw data, you will need to postprocess the data, then apply SPM, then binarize. Note that it is very important you run the postprocessing script, because this removes any instance of the evaluation data in the mined training data.
To reproduce the training of our models, we train with fairseq-py's multilingual translation [task](https://github.com/pytorch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/multilingual). If you are interested in model parallel training, also check out [fairscale](https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale).
4.**Generation**
To generate from our models, follow the the commands in the generation section below.
If you use any of the resources listed here, please cite:
author={Fan, Angela and Bhosale, Shruti and Schwenk, Holger and Ma, Zhiyi and El-Kishky, Ahmed and Goyal, Siddharth and Baines, Mandeep and Celebi, Onur and Wenzek, Guillaume and Chaudhary, Vishrav and Goyal, Naman and Birch, Tom and Liptchinsky, Vitaliy and Edunov, Sergey and Grave, Edouard and Auli, Michael and Joulin, Armand},
journal={arXiv preprint},
year={2020}
}
@article{schwenk2019ccmatrix,
title={Ccmatrix: Mining billions of high-quality parallel sentences on the web},
author={Schwenk, Holger and Wenzek, Guillaume and Edunov, Sergey and Grave, Edouard and Joulin, Armand},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04944},
year={2019}
}
@article{el2019massive,
title={A Massive Collection of Cross-Lingual Web-Document Pairs},
author={El-Kishky, Ahmed and Chaudhary, Vishrav and Guzman, Francisco and Koehn, Philipp},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06154},
year={2019}
}
```
## Trained Models
### 418M and 1.2B Model
We include the last checkpoint for both of these models.
12B parameter model trained on many-to-many training data for 100 languages. We include the last checkpoint, average of last 5 checkpoints, average of last 10 checkpoints. There isn't a universally best choice out of these three, but all three versions are pretty close in accuracy. You can either sweep over the 3 checkpoints on a dev test and use the best performing checkpoint for final testing. Or the last checkpoint can be a good default choice.
Last Checkpoint | [12b_last_chk_2_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_last_chk_2_gpus.pt) | [12b_last_chk_4_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_last_chk_4_gpus.pt) | [12b_last_chk_6_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_last_chk_6_gpus.pt) | [12b_last_chk_8_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_last_chk_8_gpus.pt)
Average of last 5 checkpoints | [12b_avg5_chk_2_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_avg5_chk_2_gpus.pt) | [12b_avg5_chk_4_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_avg5_chk_4_gpus.pt) | [12b_avg5_chk_6_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_avg5_chk_6_gpus.pt) | [12b_avg5_chk_8_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_avg5_chk_8_gpus.pt)
Average of last 10 checkpoints | [12b_avg10_chk_2_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_avg10_chk_2_gpus.pt) | [12b_avg10_chk_4_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_avg10_chk_4_gpus.pt) | [12b_avg10_chk_6_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_avg10_chk_6_gpus.pt) | [12b_avg10_chk_8_gpus.pt](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/m2m_100/12b_avg10_chk_8_gpus.pt)
Note that generation can currently be run using 2 32GB / 4 16GB / 6 12GB / 8 8GB GPUs, and the corresponding model checkpoints and pipeline arguments can be found in the [12B Model Section](#12b-model).
We apply different tokenization strategies for different languages following the existing literature. Here we provide tok.sh a tokenizer that can be used to reproduce our results.
# MBART: Multilingual Denoising Pre-training for Neural Machine Translation
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08210]
## Introduction
MBART is a sequence-to-sequence denoising auto-encoder pre-trained on large-scale monolingual corpora in many languages using the BART objective. mBART is one of the first methods for pre-training a complete sequence-to-sequence model by denoising full texts in multiple languages, while previous approaches have focused only on the encoder, decoder, or reconstructing parts of the text.
## Pre-trained models
Model | Description | # params | Download
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`mbart.CC25` | mBART model with 12 encoder and decoder layers trained on 25 languages' monolingual corpus | 610M | [mbart.CC25.tar.gz](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/models/mbart/mbart.cc25.v2.tar.gz)
`mbart.ft.ro_en` | finetune mBART cc25 model on ro-en language pairs | 610M | [mbart.cc25.ft.enro.tar.gz](https://dl.fbaipublicfiles.com/fairseq/models/mbart/mbart.cc25.ft.enro.tar.gz)
Megatron-11b is a unidirectional language model with `11B` parameters based on [Megatron-LM](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08053.pdf). Following the original Megatron work, we trained the model using intra-layer model parallelism with each layer's parameters split across 8 GPUs.
Megatron-11b is trained on the same data and uses the same byte-pair encoding (BPE) as [RoBERTa](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.11692.pdf).