arXiv:2609.13916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present North Small Translate, an open-weight, LLM-based machine translation (MT) model with instruction-following capabilities built on the same fo...
The paper introduces the Last Translation Benchmark (LTB), a live dataset of human-authored and peer‑reviewed examples—including texts, images, audio, and videos—that are designed to break current state‑of‑the‑art machine translation models. Each example is accompanied by handcrafted verification rules that specify concrete failure cases, providing a reliable and actionable evaluation method. The benchmark aims to overcome the limitations of existing automatic metrics and gold human evaluations, which often lack reproducibility, objectivity, and scalability.
The paper introduces a training strategy for cascaded simultaneous speech translation that allows the system to dynamically decide how much of the source prefix to translate. By fine‑tuning a large language model (Qwen3‑8B) on stable prefixes—pairs of source prefixes and the longest shared translation with the full sentence—the authors enable contextual read‑write decisions beyond fixed wait‑k or target‑suffix deletion. Experiments on English‑to‑German, Japanese, and Chinese demonstrate that stable prefixes improve the quality‑latency tradeoff across various test sets.
arXiv:2607.29397v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deploying large language models in realistic server environments poses challenges, as the system needs to provide high-quality responses with low l...
The paper introduces Hikari, a policy‑free, end‑to‑end model that performs simultaneous speech‑to‑text translation and streaming transcription. It employs a Decoder Time Dilation mechanism to mitigate overuse of WAIT tokens during training and a supervised fine‑tuning strategy that helps the model recover from delays, improving the quality‑latency trade‑off. Despite its modest size, Hikari achieves competitive translation quality at consistently low latency, outperforming larger published IWSLT 2026 submissions and proprietary API systems on en‑ja, en‑de, and en‑ru tasks.
arXiv:2609.18516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models excel in natural language processing, efficiently extending their capabilities to spoken input remains a significant challe...
As state-of-the-art machine translation models saturate standard benchmarks, the field needs more challenging evaluations to distinguish between models of varying quality. We propose augmenting existi...
arXiv:2609.00588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reranking methods, such as Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding and Quality Estimation (QE) reranking, are widely used in modern neural machine translatio...
arXiv:2608. 10812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study reference-free post-training for multilingual machine translation with open large language models.
While Large Language Models excel in natural language processing, efficiently extending their capabilities to spoken input remains a significant challenge. Existing methods for building SpeechLLMs oft...
arXiv:2509.17930v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multilingual translation suffers from computational redundancy, especially when translating into multiple languages simultaneously. In additi...
arXiv:2608. 07629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual neural machine translation models such as NLLB-200 cover 200 languages but leave thousands unsupported, including most Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon.