Make Translation LLM more flexible/general?

See Translation LLM

Currently you can only let it translate text and send translation example pairs, you cannot give more instruction to it, I cannot tell it “don’t translate jargon”.

Can it become a general LLM with good translation capability?

Hi @Long_Peng,

What kind of translation you are doing currently?? Can you provide any example and model name to repro the issue? Link you shared, i can’t click on that.

I have update the link in the post

An example is, I want to let Translation LLM to translate a text, I want it do not translate jargon. If it is a general LLM like gemini-2.5, I can do this by using prompt, but for Translation LLM, there is no way to put my prompt

Hey @Long_Peng, Thanks for clarification, now understood the issue.

My hunch is these translation models Like Neural Machine Translation (NMT) are made like this, they are only for translation purpose.

Gemini models are more advance and you can guide them as well through prompts and system instructions. Also, Gemini will provide highest quality translation and outperforms NMT.

Also, it’s purely based on use case to select between those, what kind of translation and latency you want.

I recommend using Gemini 2.5 models, they are much powerful and accurate.

Thanks

But I read the docs, it says Translation LLM is based on Gemini, it is not NMT