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Alleviating the Inequality of Attention Heads for Neural Machine Translation

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arxiv 2009.09672 v2 pith:4EIPXE4U submitted 2020-09-21 cs.CL

Alleviating the Inequality of Attention Heads for Neural Machine Translation

classification cs.CL
keywords attentionheadsmethodspecifictranslationachievedalleviatinganalyses
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Recent studies show that the attention heads in Transformer are not equal. We relate this phenomenon to the imbalance training of multi-head attention and the model dependence on specific heads. To tackle this problem, we propose a simple masking method: HeadMask, in two specific ways. Experiments show that translation improvements are achieved on multiple language pairs. Subsequent empirical analyses also support our assumption and confirm the effectiveness of the method.

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