Is it possible to finetune a OPUS model that has once been finetuned?

[Smilauer]

Is it possible to finetune a model that has once been finetuned? Thus, incrementally improving the model gradually. If not, I will have several new finetuned models. If I have several already finetuned models is it possible to use them at the same time or do I have to compose 2 new .tmx into one .tmx file before the fine-tuning??

[jorgtied]

Is that a question about finetuning in OPUS-CAT or using the procedures in OPUS-MT-train?

[Smilauer]

Hello,
my question is concerning the fine-tuning in the OPUS- CAT as described in the article OPUS-CAT: "Desktop NMT with CAT integration and local fine-tuning."
Tommi Nieminen
The University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 3, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
[email protected]
I have tried to use this excellent interactive software to make the translator English -> Interlingua (see www.interlingua.com) by fine-tuning English -> Catalan, see my paper in
http:https://www.interlingva.cz/Le_experimentos_con_le_machina_OPUS_CAT.pdf which is written in Interlingua (= simplified Latin, similar to Catalan ). The translation showed surprisingly good results. I repeatedly wanted to fine-tune this model again, with additional phrase pairs EN->IA, but the process was started and never has finished. I tried it with more combinations CZ (my mother language), IA, EN, and I have never experienced a successful ending when the source model was fine-tuned before. I would appreciate any advice, on how to subsequently improve the translators with Interlingua. See also the other papers on the page http:https://www.interlingva.cz/Le_Experimentos_con_traduction_automatic.pdf . Many thanks

[jorgtied]

Could we move this issue to https://github.com/Helsinki-NLP/OPUS-CAT?