Colin Cherry

Researcher, Google

Joined

October 2017

Names

Colin Cherry

Emails

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****@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Confirmed)

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Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google (google.com)

2017 – Present

Researcher

National Research Council Canada (nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)

2009 – 2017

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2007 – 2009

PhD student

University of Alberta (ualberta.ca)

2001 – 2007

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Dekang Lin

2001 – 2007

Expertise

machine translation

deep learning

2016 – Present

information extraction

social media

clinical text

2008 – 2017

machine translation

structured prediction

morphology

2007 – 2013

machine translation

syntax

2003 – 2009

Publications

Don't Throw Away Data: Improving Sequence Knowledge Distillation with Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding
Jun Wang, Eleftheria Briakou, Hamid Dadkhahi, Rishabh Agarwal, Colin Cherry, Trevor Cohn
- SSI-FM Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Overestimation in LLM Evaluation: A Controlled Large-Scale Study on Data Contamination’s Impact on Machine Translation
Muhammed Yusuf Kocyigit, Eleftheria Briakou, Daniel Deutsch, Jiaming Luo, Colin Cherry, Markus Freitag
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Don’t Throw Away Data: Better Sequence Knowledge Distillation
Jun Wang, Eleftheria Briakou, Hamid Dadkhahi, Rishabh Agarwal, Colin Cherry, Trevor Cohn
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
When Scaling Meets LLM Finetuning: The Effect of Data, Model and Finetuning Method
Biao Zhang, Zhongtao Liu, Colin Cherry, Orhan Firat
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Quality Control at Your Fingertips: Quality-Aware Translation Models
Christian Tomani, David Vilar, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry, Subhajit Naskar, Mara Finkelstein, Daniel Cremers
- ICLR 2024 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages
Sebastian Ruder, Jonathan H. Clark, Alexander Gutkin, Mihir Kale, Min Ma, Massimo Nicosia, Shruti Rijhwani, Parker Riley, Jean Michel Amath Sarr, Xinyi Wang, John Frederick Wieting, Nitish Gupta, Anna Katanova, Christo Kirov, Dana L Dickinson, Brian Roark, Bidisha Samanta, Connie Tao, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Vera Axelrod et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- EMNLP 2023 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Few-shot Learning for Machine Translation
Xavier Garcia, Yamini Bansal, Colin Cherry, George Foster, Maxim Krikun, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
The unreasonable effectiveness of few-shot learning for machine translation
Xavier Garcia, Yamini Bansal, Colin Cherry, George F. Foster, Maxim Krikun, Fangxiaoyu Feng, Melvin Johnson, Orhan Firat
- 2023 (modified: 03 Apr 2023)
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
XTREME-UP: A User-Centric Scarce-Data Benchmark for Under-Represented Languages
Sebastian Ruder, Jonathan H. Clark, Alexander Gutkin, Mihir Kale, Min Ma, Massimo Nicosia, Shruti Rijhwani, Parker Riley, Jean Michel A. Sarr, Xinyi Wang, John Wieting, Nitish Gupta, Anna Katanova, Christo Kirov, Dana L. Dickinson, Brian Roark, Bidisha Samanta, Connie Tao, David I. Adelani, Vera Axelrod et al. (7 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 02 Jun 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
PaLM 2 Technical Report
Rohan Anil, Andrew M. Dai, Orhan Firat, Melvin Johnson, Dmitry Lepikhin, Alexandre Passos, Siamak Shakeri, Emanuel Taropa, Paige Bailey, Zhifeng Chen, Eric Chu, Jonathan H. Clark, Laurent El Shafey, Yanping Huang, Kathy Meier-Hellstern, Gaurav Mishra, Erica Moreira, Mark Omernick, Kevin Robinson, Sebastian Ruder et al. (33 additional authors not shown)
- Published: 01 Jan 2023, Last Modified: 10 Jun 2023
- CoRR 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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