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This research proposes a fragment-based reasoning framework that leverages explicit intermediate traces from in-context samples to enhance LLM-based machine translation. By distilling silver fragments and drafts from a teacher model, the approach significantly outperforms standard k-shot methods across multiple languages and domains using the Qwen3 architecture. The study highlights how structured reasoning over retrieved exemplars can improve translation reliability without requiring additional training data.
Reasoning about In-Context Samples for Machine-Translation
arXiv:2608.27036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can be trained to perform chain-of-thoughts reasoning in order to improve the reliability of their responses. In this work, we investigate how explicit reasoning can be leveraged for LLM-Based Machine Translation (MT) with in-context samples. We introduce a novel fragment-based reasoning framework in which the model first extracts parallel source-target fragments from retrieved similar exemplars, and uses these fragments as intermediate reasoning traces to produce the final translation. To train our model, we distill silver fragments and drafts from a large teacher model. Our experiments with the Qwen3 model family, over 6 languages, including up to 5 domains per language, demonstrate that fragment-based MT significantly outperforms alternative methods like standard k-shot or basic drafting.
Abstract:Large Language Models (LLMs) can be trained to perform chain-of-thoughts reasoning in order to improve the reliability of their responses. In this work, we investigate how explicit reasoning can be leveraged for LLM-Based Machine Translation (MT) with in-context samples. We introduce a novel fragment-based reasoning framework in which the model first extracts parallel source-target fragments from retrieved similar exemplars, and uses these fragments as intermediate reasoning traces to produce the final translation. To train our model, we distill silver fragments and drafts from a large teacher model. Our experiments with the Qwen3 model family, over 6 languages, including up to 5 domains per language, demonstrate that fragment-based MT significantly outperforms alternative methods like standard k-shot or basic drafting.
Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2608.27036 [cs.CL]
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