PORTULAN/gervasio-7b-portuguese-ptbr-decoder

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Gervásio 7B PTBR

Gervásio PT* is a fully open decoder for the Portuguese language.

It is a decoder of the LLaMA family, based on the neural architecture Transformer and developed over the LLaMA-2 7B model. Its further improvement through additional training was done over language resources that include new instruction data sets of Portuguese prepared for this purpose (extraGLUE-Instruct ).

It has different versions that were trained for different variants of Portuguese (PT), namely for the European variant, spoken in Portugal (gervasio-7b-portuguese-ptpt-decoder), and for the American variant, spoken in Brazil (gervasio-7b-portuguese-ptbr-decoder).

All versions of Gervásio are openly distributed for free under an open license, including thus for research and commercial purposes, and given its size, can be run on consumer-grade hardware.

Gervásio 7B PTBR is developed by NLX-Natural Language and Speech Group, at the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Informatics, Portugal.

For the record, its full name is Gervásio Produz Textos em Português, to which corresponds the natural acronym GPT PT, and which is known more shortly as Gervásio PT* or, even more briefly, just as Gervásio, among its acquaintances.

Gervásio 7B PTBR is developed by a team from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. For a fully detailed description, check the respective publication:

@misc{gervasio,
      title={Advancing Generative AI for Portuguese with
             Open Decoder Gervásio PT-*}, 
      author={Rodrigo Santos, João Silva, Luís Gomes,
              João Rodrigues, António Branco},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2402.18766},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

Please use the above cannonical reference when using or citing this model.

Model Description

This model card is for Gervásio 7B PTBR, with 7 billion parameters, a hidden size of 4,096 units, an intermediate size of 11,008 units, 32 attention heads, 32 hidden layers, and a tokenizer obtained using the Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) algorithm implemented with SentencePiece, featuring a vocabulary size of 32,000.

Gervásio 7B PTBR is distributed under an MIT license.

Training Data

Gervásio 7B PTBR was trained over standard supervised fine-tuning, and to keep some alignment with mainstream benchmarks for English, we resorted to tasks and respective datasets in the GLUE and the SuperGLUE collections.

We selected those datasets where the outcome of their machine translation into Portuguese could preserve, in the target language, the linguistic properties at stake.

From GLUE, we resorted to the following four tasks:

• MRPC (paraphrase Detection).
• RTE (recognizing Textual Entailment).
• STS-B (semantic textual similarity).
• WNLI (coreference and natural language inference).

And from SuperGLUE, we included these other four tasks:

• BoolQ (yes/no question answering).
• CB (inference with 3 labels).
• COPA (reasoning)
• MultiRC (question answering).

These datasets were machine translated into American Portuguese and from the extraGLUE dataset.

Furthermore, instruction templates have been manually crafted for each task. These take the various fields in the dataset and arrange them into prompts, which were collected into the extraGLUE-instruct dataset.

We also employed data augmentation techniques to enhance the size and diversity of our dataset. This involved repurposing the tasks in various ways, such as generation of answers from MultiRC, question generation from BoolQ, and other relevant modifications.

Training Details

We applied supervised fine-tuning with a causal language modeling training objective following a zero-out technique during the fine-tuning process. Specifically, while the entire prompt received attention during fine-tuning, only the response tokens were subjected to back-propagation.

In terms of hyper-parameters, the model was trained with a learning rate of 2 * 10^-5, a weight decay of 0.1, a two-epoch training regime without warm-up, and to ensure the same number of tokens back-propagated per step, we employed an input sequence of 512 tokens with a batch size of 16 and 16 accumulation steps.

Due to hardware limitations that imposed a shorter sequence length (512) compared to the base model (4096), instead of the typical practice of concatenating all training examples and then dividing them into batches with the same input sequence length, we separated each example individually. In other words, each example occupies the full input sequence length.

Performance

For testing, we reserved the translated datasets MRPC (similarity) and RTE (inference), from GLUE, and COPA (reasoning/qa), from SuperGLUE, which were taken as representatives of three major types of tasks, and were not seen during training.

Model	MRPC (F1)	RTE (F1)	COPA (F1)
Gervásio 7B PTBR	0.7822	0.8321	0.2134
LLaMA-2 (English)	0.0369	0.0516	0.4867
LLaMA-2 Chat (English)	0.5432	0.3807	0.5493

For further testing our decoder, in addition to the testing data described above, we also used datasets that were originally developed with texts from Portuguese: ASSIN2 RTE (entailment) and ASSIN2 STS (similarity), BLUEX (question answering), ENEM 2022 (question answering) and FaQuAD (extractive question-answering).

Model	ENEM 2022 (Accuracy)	BLUEX (Accuracy)	RTE (F1)	STS (Pearson)
Gervásio 7B PTBR	0.1977	0.2640	0.7469	0.2136
LLaMA-2 (English)	0.2458	0.2903	0.0913	0.1034
LLaMA-2 Chat (English)	0.2231	0.2959	0.5546	0.1750

In comparison with other decoder of the same dimension, namely Sabiá 1.5B, Gervásio shows a superior or competitive performance for the tasks in PTBR, while being the sole encoder of 1.5B dimmension for the PTPT variant of Portuguese and thus the state of art in this respect at the time of its publishing. For further evaluation data, see the respective publication.

How to use

You can use this model directly with a pipeline for causal language modeling:

>>> from transformers import pipeline
>>> generator = pipeline(model='PORTULAN/gervasio-7b-portuguese-ptbr-decoder')
>>> generator("A música brasileira é", max_new_tokens=10)

Acknowledgments

The research reported here was partially supported by: PORTULAN CLARIN—Research Infrastructure for the Science and Technology of Language, funded by Lisboa 2020, Alentejo 2020 and FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under the grant PINFRA/22117/2016; research project GPT-PT - Transformer-based Decoder for the Portuguese Language, funded by FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia under the grant CPCA-IAC/AV/478395/2022; innovation project ACCELERAT.AI - Multilingual Intelligent Contact Centers, funded by IAPMEI, I.P. - Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação under the grant C625734525-00462629, of Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência, call RE-C05-i01.01 – Agendas/Alianças Mobilizadoras para a Reindustrialização.