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Finds that step-by-step reasoning makes machine translation worse, then trains a model on structured draft-and-revise traces that improve it.
By Sara Rajaee, Sebastian Vincent, Alexandre Berard and 3 more · arXiv 2602.14763 · PDF
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- Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
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