NLLB 3.3B - Poor translations from Chinese to English
Hey!I’m playing around with the NLLB 3.3B, and have encountered some problems when translating from (simplified) Chinese (FLORES language code: zho_Hans)  to English that I’m curious to know if anyone else has seen.The model reacts badly to city (e.g. Hanzhong) and company names (e.g. Midea)Example translations:Air Conditioning in Hanzhong City (汉中市空调) translates to Air conditioning in ChinaHanzhong (汉中) translates to ChineseMidea home central air conditioner (美的家用中央空调) translates to The house is central air conditionedI don’t know any Chinese so the “correct” translations are from Google Translate.The model is very sensitive to unexpected charactersPipes, parenthesis, 0-9, a-z results in nonsense output when translating from Chinese. Played around with M2M which isn’t nearly as sensitive to these characters.Have anyone else experienced this?BR,Felix
2023-01-12T11:35:07Z
Encountering similar issues with Japanese to English translations using NLLB, and in some instances for Korean as well.
2023-04-19T20:34:46Z
same experience with Chinese/Japanese/Korean to English.It hallucinates a lot.
2023-09-13T04:15:56Z
I think the translation for NLLB Chinese isn’t working as well as intended; please do correct me if I am utilizing it wrongly but…苹果 to English; I’ve gotten 果 for the translation instead of apple这里有西瓜 to English; I’ve gotten ‘There’s a little bit of a squirrel in there.’ instead of   ‘There’s a watermelon here’Anyone has any tips on how to improve the translation or a better model out there that I may have missed?
2024-05-07T14:35:23Z
An empty string “” fromzho_Hanttoeng_Latnresults in “What is the meaning of life?” for 1.3B, and even translation betweenzho_Hansandzho_Hantis off by a lot.