Deterministic Non-Autoregressive Neural Sequence Modeling by Iterative Refinement [article]

Jason Lee, Elman Mansimov, Kyunghyun Cho
2018 arXiv   pre-print
We propose a conditional non-autoregressive neural sequence model based on iterative refinement. The proposed model is designed based on the principles of latent variable models and denoising autoencoders, and is generally applicable to any sequence generation task. We extensively evaluate the proposed model on machine translation (En-De and En-Ro) and image caption generation, and observe that it significantly speeds up decoding while maintaining the generation quality comparable to the autoregressive counterpart.
arXiv:1802.06901v3 fatcat:idmxzsinwvdplga7oiklfbfgrq