Shared task: Translation into Low-Resource Languages of Spain

This repository contains our participation to the WMT 2024 Shared Task of Translation into Low-Resource languages of Spain. The task consists in developing Machine Translation (MT) systems to translate from Spanish into Aragonese, Aranese and Asturian

Our submission consists of 4 submissions covering all language pairs with multilingual systems.

This table shows a summary of our submissions:

Submission #	Method	BLEU-arg	BLEU-arn	BLEU-ast	Params (M)	Size (MB)	Speed (s)
Submission 1	Fine-tuning	55.94	28.35	18.55	222.9	851	852.22
Submission 2	Distillation	54.24	28.19	18.53	67.5	258	361.33
Submission 3	Distillation	52.86	27.15	18.23	20.4	78	4.06
Submission 4	Distillation	56.99	30.19	18.50	67.5	258	891.76

Table 1: Summary of our submissions. BLEU refers to the BLEU score obtained by the best ensemble on the development set; Speed refers to the averaged decoding speed for submission across language pairs on one single AMD MI250x GPU.

Code

All our code is in the scripts folder.

Training data

The already preprocessed and filtered training data can be safely downloaded from this link: https://a3s.fi/degibert-2001194-pub/lowres-spain-data.zip

The password is "Helsinki-NLP".

Models

We release our fastest model from Submission 3. It can be safely downloaded from this link: https://object.pouta.csc.fi/degibert/lowres_sub_3.zip

Citation

Coming soon!