Abstract
Training neural machine translation models requires large amount of diverse training corpora. It poses a challenge for collecting sufficient data. In addition, labeling monolingual corpus demands professional knowledge in certain domain. Building collaboration between different institutes produces other problems such as legality of data exchange and commercial data leakage.
In this paper, we proposed a federated neural machine translation model FedNMT to train a robust machine translation system without sharing raw data from participants. By applying FedNMT, neural machine translation (NMT) systems can be ameliorated from the corpus held by different contributors without directly exposing them to one another. This approach preserves the user privacy by utilizing the federated learning framework, encryption techniques. In the federated learning paradigms, a global model is distributed to user clients, and a central server is built to aggregate the learning parameters and update the gradients. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our model in comparison with the data-centralized model.
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This paper is supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China under grant No. 2018YFB0204403.
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Wang, J., Huang, Z., Kong, L., Li, D., Xiao, J. (2021). Modeling Without Sharing Privacy: Federated Neural Machine Translation. In: Zhang, W., Zou, L., Maamar, Z., Chen, L. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2021. WISE 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13080. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90888-1_18
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