$m^4Adapter$

This repository is used in our paper:

$m^4Adapter$: Multilingual Multi-Domain Adaptation for Machine Translation with a Meta-Adapter (Findings of EMNLP 2022) paper link

Please cite our paper and kindly give a star for this repository if you use this code.

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Requirements

1. torch==1.8.1
2. transformers
3. adapter-transformers
4. deepspeed==0.6.0

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Updates (2023-03-28): upload the code for using adapter in m2m_100 model. please copy the adapters/m2m.py to the adapter-transformer path

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Step 1: preprocess

• Download the original corpus from OPUS, contains different domains (EUbookshop, KDE, OpenSubtitles, QED, TED, Ubuntu, Bible, UN, Tanzil, infopankki) and different language (en, de, fr, mk, sr, et, hr, hu, fi, uk, is, lt, ar, es, ru, zh).
• Limit the training dataset to 5000 samples in each domain and language pair and the adapting dataset to 500 samples in each domain and language pair, because there are some language pair without 5000 sentences in the specific domain (see more details in Appendix A.1).
• most of the preprocess scripts are in scripts/preprocess

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Step 2: Baselines

running baseline systems in Baselines

Step 3: Meta-Train

## run scripts in meta-train
deepspeed --num_gpus=8 main_deepspeed.py \
--domains EUbookshop,KDE4,OpenSubtitles,QED,TED2020,Ubuntu \
--model_name_or_path facebook/m2m100_418M \
--data_path YOUR_DATA_PATH \
--per_device_train_batch_size 4 --per_device_eval_batch_size 4 \
--cuda --log_interval 20 --temp 5.0

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Step 4: Meta-Adapt

## run scripts in meta-adapt
nohup python meta_adapt.py \
--device_id 6 \
--domain EUbookshop \
--finetune_scripts finetune_meta_adapter_unseen.py \
--generate_scripts generate_base_adapter.py \
--data_path YOUR_DATA_PATH \
--adapter_path ADAPTER_PATH \
--save_path MODEL_PATH \
--generate_path GENERATE_PATH \
> log.txt &

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Citation

@inproceedings{lai-etal-2022-4,
    title = "m{\textasciicircum}4 Adapter: Multilingual Multi-Domain Adaptation for Machine Translation with a Meta-Adapter",
    author = "Lai, Wen  and
      Chronopoulou, Alexandra  and
      Fraser, Alexander",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.315",
    pages = "4282--4296",
    abstract = "Multilingual neural machine translation models (MNMT) yield state-of-the-art performance when evaluated on data from a domain and language pair seen at training time. However, when a MNMT model is used to translate under domain shift or to a new language pair, performance drops dramatically. We consider a very challenging scenario: adapting the MNMT model both to a new domain and to a new language pair at the same time. In this paper, we propose m{\textasciicircum}4Adapter (Multilingual Multi-Domain Adaptation for Machine Translation with a Meta-Adapter), which combines domain and language knowledge using meta-learning with adapters. We present results showing that our approach is a parameter-efficient solution which effectively adapts a model to both a new language pair and a new domain, while outperforming other adapter methods. An ablation study also shows that our approach more effectively transfers domain knowledge across different languages and language information across different domains.",
}