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Nov 17, 2019 7 tweets 2 min read
Of the many excellent papers at #emnlp2019, this is the one I can't stop thinking about.

On NMT Search Errors and Model Errors: Cat Got Your Tongue?
by Felix Stahlberg & Bill Byrne
aclweb.org/anthology/D19-…

Our current NMT models might be "wrong"🚫

👇thread 👇 1/7 2/7. One relatively well known open dirty secrets of NMT was that if you increase the beam width at decoding, your BLEU sometime decreases