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Translation with Thought: Difficulty-Adaptive Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Domain Machine Translation

arXiv:2607. 29287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-domain machine translation (MDMT) poses a unique challenge due to varying levels of linguistic complexity across domains.

arXiv AI
Jul 22

LatentMT: Machine Translation with Latent Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 18618v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent-reasoning looped language models (LoopLMs) offer a different scaling path for machine translation (MT): instead of increasing parameter count or emitting explicit chain-of-thought tokens, they spend additional recurrent computation inside hidden states.

By Wei-Rui Chen, Samar M. Magdy, Chiyu Zhang, Wenhui Zhu, Zhipeng Wang, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

North Small Translate: Advanced Cost-Effective Translation (Cohere CAT+)

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...

By Tom Kocmi, Alexandre B\'erard, Phil Blunsom, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Shaun Cassini, Nicholas Frosst, Ona de Gibert, Aidan Gomez, Nithya Govindarajan, Shun Kiyono, Olivia Lasche, Lawrence Rogers, Kelly Marchisio, Nikita Moghe, Yash More, Camila Moran-Hidalgo, Yiyang Nan, Michael Sachs, Trisha Starostina, Daan van Stigt, Spencer Rarrick, Sebastian Vincent, Ivan Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

Learning When to Translate for Multilingual Reasoning

Reasoning language models (RLMs) achieve strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, but still exhibit substantial multilingual reasoning gaps, largely due to language-understanding failures in non-English inputs. English translation can mitigate these failures by expressing non-English inputs in a form that RLMs can more reliably interpret, yet translating every input is unnecessary when the model can reason reliably from the original query.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Reasoning over Grammar: Can Synthetic Linguistic Reasoning Traces Enhance Low-Resource Machine Translation?

The paper explores whether structured linguistic reasoning traces can improve low‑resource machine translation by guiding large language models (LLMs). It proposes a pipeline that automatically generates step‑by‑step reasoning traces from Universal Dependencies treebanks, dictionaries, and grammar‑rule banks, and evaluates these traces in in‑context learning, supervised fine‑tuning, and reinforcement fine‑tuning on Xibe and Chintang. The results show that providing reliable reasoning traces at inference time significantly boosts translation quality, whereas using them as training data yields smaller, less consistent gains, indicating that LLMs can benefit from grammatical guidance but struggle to generate accurate analyses themselves.

By Renhao Pei, Yihong Liu, Sampo Pyysalo, Hinrich Sch\"utze, Shaoxiong Ji
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

Unlocking Fine-Grained Translation Quality Estimation in LRMs through Mutually Boosting Implicit and Explicit Reasoning

arXiv:2605.31378v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) still struggle with fine-grained translation quality estimation (QE), even with long reasoning chains. We argue that...

By Renfei Dang, Xinye Wang, Zhejian Lai, Weilu Xu, Shimin Tao, Daimeng Wei, Min Zhang, Shujian Huang
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

Reasoning about In-Context Samples for Machine-Translation

The paper proposes a fragment‑based reasoning framework for large language model–based machine translation. It extracts parallel source‑target fragments from retrieved similar examples and uses these fragments as intermediate reasoning traces to generate the final translation. Experiments with the Qwen3 model across six languages and multiple domains show that this approach outperforms standard k‑shot or basic drafting methods.

By Maxime Bouthors, Josep Crego, Fran\c{c}ois Yvon