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New RLHF framework improves Vietnamese translation of historical manuscripts

Researchers have developed a new multimodal Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) framework to translate historical Han-Nom manuscripts into modern Vietnamese. This approach leverages both the visual information from manuscript images and aligned Han-Nom text to improve translation quality, addressing challenges like degraded pages and limited parallel data. The framework integrates multiple language models and vision encoders, and experiments showed that Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) outperformed Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) and Khi-squared Optimization (KTO) in various metrics, including BLEU-4 and BERTScore, demonstrating the effectiveness of preference optimization for low-resource historical translation. AI

IMPACT This research advances multimodal AI capabilities for low-resource historical translation tasks.

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New RLHF framework improves Vietnamese translation of historical manuscripts

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Direct Image-to-Modern Vietnamese Translation of Han-Nom Manuscripts via Multimodal RLHF Preference Alignment

    Translating Han-Nom manuscripts into modern Vietnamese is challenging because historical pages are often degraded, the script contains rare logographic characters, and parallel supervision is limited. We propose a multimodal RLHF preference-alignment framework that conditions Vie…