---
language:
- ru
- en
- multilingual
license: mit
tags:
- russian
---
This is a smaller version of the [google/mt5-base](https://huggingface.co/google/mt5-base) model with only Russian and some English embeddings left. 

* The original model has 582M parameters, with 384M of them being input and output embeddings. 
* After shrinking the `sentencepiece` vocabulary from 250K to 30K (top 10K English and top 20K Russian tokens) the number of model parameters reduced to 244M parameters, and model size reduced from 2.2GB to 0.9GB - 42% of the original one.

The creation of this model is described in the post [How to adapt a multilingual T5 model for a single language](https://cointegrated.medium.com/how-to-adapt-a-multilingual-t5-model-for-a-single-language-b9f94f3d9c90) along with the source code.