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Loong: A Human-Like Long Document Translation Agent with Observe-and-Act Adaptive Context Selection

Yutong Wang, Xuebo Liu, Derek F. Wong, Zhilin Li, Rongqing Jiang, Min Zhang, Shimin Tao, Daimeng Wei, Min Zhang · May 28, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Evidence quality

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Abstract

Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while simultaneously suffering from redundant contextual information that degrades translation quality. To address this, we propose a human-like long document translation agent called Loong, which leverages a 3E memory module (Essence-Exemplar-Entity) to store summaries, sentence pairs, and entity records as historical context. Instead of passively attending to all history, Loong performs deep reasoning to adaptively identify the optimal context for translation guidance. Loong optimizes its context policy through reinforcement learning, utilizing preference data derived from its own sampled observe-and-act reasoning trajectories. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Loong achieves substantial translation quality improvements in English $\Leftrightarrow$ Chinese, German, and French directions, with average gains of up to 13.0 points across the three evaluation metrics. Furthermore, Loong exhibits strong generalization across domains and robustness against contextual noise, while maintaining remarkable stability in ultra-long document translation. Our code is released at https://github.com/YutongWang1216/LoongDocMT.

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  • The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.
  • The abstract does not clearly describe the evaluation setup.
  • The abstract does not clearly name benchmarks or metrics.

Should You Rely On This Paper?

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Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

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Main weakness

The available metadata is too thin to trust this as a primary source.

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

40/100 • Low

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Human Feedback Signal

Detected

Evaluation Signal

Weak / implicit signal

Usefulness for eval research

Adjacent candidate

Extraction confidence 45%

What We Could Verify

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Human Feedback Types

partial

Pairwise Preference

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"Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while simultaneously suffering from redundant contextual information that degrades translation quality."

Evaluation Modes

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"Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while simultaneously suffering from redundant contextual information that degrades translation quality."

Quality Controls

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No explicit QC controls found.

"Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while simultaneously suffering from redundant contextual information that degrades translation quality."

Benchmarks / Datasets

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No benchmark anchors detected.

"Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while simultaneously suffering from redundant contextual information that degrades translation quality."

Reported Metrics

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No metric anchors detected.

"Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while simultaneously suffering from redundant contextual information that degrades translation quality."

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: Yes
  • Feedback types: Pairwise Preference
  • Rater population: Not reported
  • Expertise required: Coding, Multilingual

Evaluation Details

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  • Agentic eval: None
  • Quality controls: Not reported
  • Evidence quality: Low
  • Use this page as: Background context only

Protocol And Measurement Signals

Benchmarks / Datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported Metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Research Brief

Metadata summary

Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while simultaneously suffering from redundant contextual information that degrades translation quality.

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Key Takeaways

  • Document-level translation remains one of the most challenging tasks for large language models, which are constrained by limited context windows that impede global cohesion, while simultaneously suffering from redundant contextual information that degrades translation quality.
  • To address this, we propose a human-like long document translation agent called Loong, which leverages a 3E memory module (Essence-Exemplar-Entity) to store summaries, sentence pairs, and entity records as historical context.
  • Instead of passively attending to all history, Loong performs deep reasoning to adaptively identify the optimal context for translation guidance.

Researcher Actions

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  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • To address this, we propose a human-like long document translation agent called Loong, which leverages a 3E memory module (Essence-Exemplar-Entity) to store summaries, sentence pairs, and entity records as historical context.
  • Loong optimizes its context policy through reinforcement learning, utilizing preference data derived from its own sampled observe-and-act reasoning trajectories.
  • Empirical evaluations demonstrate that Loong achieves substantial translation quality improvements in English \Leftrightarrow Chinese, German, and French directions, with average gains of up to 13.0 points across the three evaluation…

Why It Matters For Eval

  • To address this, we propose a human-like long document translation agent called Loong, which leverages a 3E memory module (Essence-Exemplar-Entity) to store summaries, sentence pairs, and entity records as historical context.
  • Loong optimizes its context policy through reinforcement learning, utilizing preference data derived from its own sampled observe-and-act reasoning trajectories.

Researcher Checklist

  • Pass: Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Pairwise Preference

  • Gap: Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Gap: Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Gap: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Gap: Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.

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