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Qwen-MT-Lumen advances instruction-specialized translation with novel training techniques

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Researchers have developed Qwen-MT-Lumen, an open-source model designed for instruction-specialized translation, which was submitted to the WMT 2026 General Machine Translation Shared Task. The model employs a four-stage pipeline that includes continued pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, an online preference optimization framework using an LLM judge, and on-policy distillation from a larger teacher model to a Qwen3-14B student. This approach aims to enhance multilingual translation competence and the ability to follow specific instructions regarding style, terminology, and structured output, achieving a mean score of 4.60 on a 1-5 rubric. AI

IMPACT This research introduces advanced techniques for instruction-specialized translation, potentially improving the accuracy and adaptability of machine translation systems.

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Qwen-MT-Lumen advances instruction-specialized translation with novel training techniques

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Hao Wang, Yangyang Liu, Xiaohu Zhao, Heng Liu, Zifu Shang, Tianhao Li, Ruize Gao, Jialong Tang, Liangying Shao, Haoran Wei, Baosong Yang, Linlong Xu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo ·

    Qwen-MT-Lumen at WMT2026: Instruction-Specialized Translation via Quality-Aware Training and On-Policy Distillation

    arXiv:2610.19758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Lumen, The open-source model is available at, our submission to the WMT 2026 General Machine Translation Shared Task. We focus on instruction-specialized translation, where systems must produce accurate translations while…

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