What is Marco?

Marco is the latest large-scale commercial translation model launched by Alibaba International, supporting 15 global mainstream languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and French. It outperforms competitors like Google Translate, DeepL, and GPT-4 in BLEU evaluation metrics, offering context-based precise translations to avoid ambiguity caused by literal meanings. Marco is based on multilingual data filtering technology and parameter expansion methods, ensuring translation quality and reducing service costs. The Marco translation model is now available for large-scale commercial use, providing efficient and accurate translation services to global users, meeting diverse translation needs. Marco has been released on Alibaba International's AI platform, Aidge, and is open to global users.

Key Features of Marco

• Multilingual Translation Support: Provides translation capabilities for 15 global mainstream languages.
• Context-Based Accurate Translation: Offers precise translations based on context to avoid ambiguity.
• Cross-Border E-commerce Optimization: Particularly suitable for cross-border e-commerce, optimizing product titles and descriptions.
• Diverse Translation Styles: Supports different translation styles to meet personalized needs.
• High Concurrency Processing: Designed for large-scale commercial use, supporting high concurrency calls.

Technical Principles of Marco

• Large Language Model Driven: Based on deep learning technology, trained with a large amount of multilingual text data, enabling a deep understanding of language structure and semantics, providing more natural and accurate translations.
• Multilingual Data Filtering: Uses advanced data filtering technology to ensure high-quality data is used in model training, employing multilingual mixed corpus identification and multi-dimensional data quality assessment to obtain precise and large-scale multilingual data.
• Mixed Experts and Parameter Expansion: Combines multilingual mixed expert systems, where each expert is responsible for specific language pairs or language features, improving translation quality in specific domains. Based on parameter expansion methods, it optimizes the overall performance of the model.
• Model Quantization and Acceleration: Uses model quantization techniques to reduce computational requirements, speeding up the translation process. Based on acceleration technologies like parallel computing and distributed training, it further enhances the model's response speed and processing capabilities.

Application Scenarios of Marco

• Product Information Localization: Accurately translates product titles, descriptions, attributes, and image captions uploaded by merchants into the target market's language, helping products better adapt to local markets.
• Multilingual Customer Service: Provides real-time chat translation services, helping merchants communicate smoothly with customers in different languages, enhancing customer service experience.
• Cross-Border E-commerce Platforms: Integrated into platforms like AliExpress, Lazada, and Trendyol, providing automatic translation services for merchants and buyers, eliminating language barriers.
• Personal Document Translation: Offers high-quality document translation services for individual users, including but not limited to resumes, academic papers, legal documents, supporting multiple languages.
• Content Creation and Publishing: Helps content creators translate articles, blogs, press releases, and more into different languages, expanding the global audience for their content.