arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-31
Translation with Thought: Difficulty-Adaptive Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Domain Machine Translation
Yongshi Ye, Biao Fu, Chongxuan Huang, Yidong Chen, Xiaodong Shi
Multi-domain machine translation (MDMT) poses a unique challenge due to varying levels of linguistic complexity across domains. Inspired by human translators' ability to adapt reasoning effort based on difficulty, we propose TwT (Translation with Thought), a resource-rational fra…