Evaluating Encoder Choices in Machine Translation
A machine translation development team is building a system to translate text from a source language to a target language. They are considering two approaches for the 'encoder' component, which is responsible for understanding the source text. The first approach is to train an encoder from scratch using only their specific translation dataset. The second approach is to use a large, general-purpose, pre-trained language model as the encoder and then fine-tune it on their dataset.
Critique the second approach. In your response, justify why using a pre-trained model could be advantageous for this task, and also explain a significant potential drawback or challenge this approach introduces compared to training an encoder from scratch.
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Evaluating Encoder Choices in Machine Translation
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