Imputer: Sequence Modelling via Imputation and Dynamic Programming
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The imputer is a sequence-to-sequence model that strikes a balance between fully autoregressive models with long inference times and fully non-autoregressive models with fast inference. The imputer achieves constant decoding time independent of sequence length by exploiting dynamic programming. https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08926 Abstract: This paper presents the Imputer, a neural sequence model that generates output sequences iteratively via imputations. The Imputer is an iterative generative model, requiring only a constant number of generation steps independent of the number of input or output tokens. The Imputer can be trained to approximately marginalize over all possible alignments between the input and output sequences, and all possible generation orders. We present a tractable dynamic programming training algorithm, which yields a lower bound on the log marginal likelihood. When applied to end-to-end speech recognition, the Imputer outperforms prior non-autoregressive models and achieves competitive results to autoregressive models. On LibriSpeech test-other, the Imputer achieves 11.1 WER, outperforming CTC at 13.0 WER and seq2seq at 12.5 WER. Authors: William Chan, Chitwan Saharia, Geoffrey Hinton, Mohammad Norouzi, Navdeep Jaitly Links: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/yannickilcher Twitter: https://twitter.com/ykilcher BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/yannic-kilcher Minds: https://www.minds.com/ykilcher
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