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Pull request: Standardize ByT5 model card format

# What does this PR do?

This PR updates the ByT5 model card to follow the standardized format as requested in #36979. 

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-# ByT5
-
-<div class="flex flex-wrap space-x-1">
-<img alt="PyTorch" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PyTorch-DE3412?style=flat&logo=pytorch&logoColor=white">
-<img alt="TensorFlow" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/TensorFlow-FF6F00?style=flat&logo=tensorflow&logoColor=white">
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-">
+<div style="float: right;">
+  <div class="flex flex-wrap space-x-1">
+    <img alt="PyTorch" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/PyTorch-DE3412?style=flat&logo=pytorch&logoColor=white">
+    <img alt="TensorFlow" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/TensorFlow-FF6F00?style=flat&logo=tensorflow&logoColor=white">
+    <img alt="Flax" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Flax-29a79b.svg?style=flat&logo=flax&logoColor=white">
+  </div>
 </div>
 
-## Overview
-
-The ByT5 model was presented in [ByT5: Towards a token-free future with pre-trained byte-to-byte models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.13626) by Linting Xue, Aditya Barua, Noah Constant, Rami Al-Rfou, Sharan Narang, Mihir
-Kale, Adam Roberts, Colin Raffel.
-
-The abstract from the paper is the following:
-
-*Most widely-used pre-trained language models operate on sequences of tokens corresponding to word or subword units.
-Encoding text as a sequence of tokens requires a tokenizer, which is typically created as an independent artifact from
-the model. Token-free models that instead operate directly on raw text (bytes or characters) have many benefits: they
-can process text in any language out of the box, they are more robust to noise, and they minimize technical debt by
-removing complex and error-prone text preprocessing pipelines. Since byte or character sequences are longer than token
-sequences, past work on token-free models has often introduced new model architectures designed to amortize the cost of
-operating directly on raw text. In this paper, we show that a standard Transformer architecture can be used with
-minimal modifications to process byte sequences. We carefully characterize the trade-offs in terms of parameter count,
-training FLOPs, and inference speed, and show that byte-level models are competitive with their token-level
-counterparts. We also demonstrate that byte-level models are significantly more robust to noise and perform better on
-tasks that are sensitive to spelling and pronunciation. As part of our contribution, we release a new set of
-pre-trained byte-level Transformer models based on the T5 architecture, as well as all code and data used in our
-experiments.*
-
-This model was contributed by [patrickvonplaten](https://huggingface.co/patrickvonplaten). The original code can be
-found [here](https://github.com/google-research/byt5).
+# ByT5
 
-<Tip>
+[ByT5](https://huggingface.co/papers/2105.13626) is tokenizer-free version of the [T5](./t5) model designed to works directly on raw UTF-8 bytes. This means it can process any language, more robust to noise like typos, and simpler to use because it doesn't require a preprocessing pipeline.
 
-ByT5's architecture is based on the T5v1.1 model, refer to [T5v1.1's documentation page](t5v1.1) for the API reference. They
-only differ in how inputs should be prepared for the model, see the code examples below.
+You can find all the original ByT5 checkpoints under the [Google](https://huggingface.co/google?search_models=byt5) organization.
 
-</Tip>
+> [!TIP]
+> Refer to the [T5](./t5) docs for more examples of how to apply ByT5 to different language tasks.
 
-Since ByT5 was pre-trained unsupervisedly, there's no real advantage to using a task prefix during single-task
-fine-tuning. If you are doing multi-task fine-tuning, you should use a prefix.
+The example below demonstrates how to generate text with [`Pipeline`], [`AutoModel`] and from the command line.
 
+<hfoptions id="usage">
+<hfoption id="Pipeline">
 
-## Usage example
+```python
+import torch
+from transformers import pipeline
+
+pipeline = pipeline(
+    task="text2text-generation",
+    model="google/byt5-small",
+    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+    device=0
+)
+pipeline("translate English to French: The weather is nice today")
+```
 
-ByT5 works on raw UTF-8 bytes, so it can be used without a tokenizer:
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="AutoModel">
 
 ```python
->>> from transformers import T5ForConditionalGeneration
->>> import torch
+import torch
+from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoTokenizer
+
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
+    "google/byt5-small"
+)
+model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(
+    "google/byt5-small",
+    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
+    device_map="auto"
+)
+
+input_ids = tokenizer("summarize: Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria convert light energy into chemical energy.", return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
+
+output = model.generate(**input_ids)
+print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
+```
 
->>> model = T5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("google/byt5-small")
+</hfoption>
+<hfoption id="transformers-cli">
 
->>> num_special_tokens = 3
->>> # Model has 3 special tokens which take up the input ids 0,1,2 of ByT5.
->>> # => Need to shift utf-8 character encodings by 3 before passing ids to model.
+```bash
+echo -e "translate English to French: Life is beautiful." | transformers-cli run --task text2text-generation --model google/byt5-small --device 0
+```
 
->>> input_ids = torch.tensor([list("Life is like a box of chocolates.".encode("utf-8"))]) + num_special_tokens
+</hfoption>
+</hfoptions>
 
->>> labels = torch.tensor([list("La vie est comme une boîte de chocolat.".encode("utf-8"))]) + num_special_tokens
+## Quantization
 
->>> loss = model(input_ids, labels=labels).loss
->>> loss.item()
-2.66
-```
+Quantization reduces the memory burden of large models by representing the weights in a lower precision. Refer to the [Quantization](../quantization/overview) overview for more available quantization backends. 
 
-For batched inference and training it is however recommended to make use of the tokenizer:
+The example below uses [torchao](../quantization/torchao) to only quantize the weights to int4.
 
 ```python
->>> from transformers import T5ForConditionalGeneration, AutoTokenizer
-
->>> model = T5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("google/byt5-small")
->>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/byt5-small")
-
->>> model_inputs = tokenizer(
-...     ["Life is like a box of chocolates.", "Today is Monday."], padding="longest", return_tensors="pt"
-... )
->>> labels_dict = tokenizer(
-...     ["La vie est comme une boîte de chocolat.", "Aujourd'hui c'est lundi."], padding="longest", return_tensors="pt"
-... )
->>> labels = labels_dict.input_ids
-
->>> loss = model(**model_inputs, labels=labels).loss
->>> loss.item()
-17.9
-```
+# pip install torchao
+import torch
+from transformers import TorchAoConfig, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoTokenizer
 
-Similar to [T5](t5), ByT5 was trained on the span-mask denoising task. However, 
-since the model works directly on characters, the pretraining task is a bit 
-different. Let's corrupt some characters of the 
-input sentence `"The dog chases a ball in the park."` and ask ByT5 to predict them 
-for us.
+quantization_config = TorchAoConfig("int4_weight_only", group_size=128)
 
-```python
->>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
->>> import torch
-
->>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/byt5-base")
->>> model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("google/byt5-base")
-
->>> input_ids_prompt = "The dog chases a ball in the park."
->>> input_ids = tokenizer(input_ids_prompt).input_ids
-
->>> # Note that we cannot add "{extra_id_...}" to the string directly
->>> # as the Byte tokenizer would incorrectly merge the tokens
->>> # For ByT5, we need to work directly on the character level
->>> # Contrary to T5, ByT5 does not use sentinel tokens for masking, but instead
->>> # uses final utf character ids.
->>> # UTF-8 is represented by 8 bits and ByT5 has 3 special tokens.
->>> # => There are 2**8+2 = 259 input ids and mask tokens count down from index 258.
->>> # => mask to "The dog [258]a ball [257]park."
-
->>> input_ids = torch.tensor([input_ids[:8] + [258] + input_ids[14:21] + [257] + input_ids[28:]])
->>> input_ids
-tensor([[ 87, 107, 104,  35, 103, 114, 106,  35, 258,  35, 100,  35, 101, 100, 111, 111, 257,  35, 115, 100, 117, 110,  49,   1]])
-
->>> # ByT5 produces only one char at a time so we need to produce many more output characters here -> set `max_length=100`.
->>> output_ids = model.generate(input_ids, max_length=100)[0].tolist()
->>> output_ids
-[0, 258, 108, 118,  35, 119, 107, 104,  35, 114, 113, 104,  35, 122, 107, 114,  35, 103, 114, 104, 118, 257,  35, 108, 113,  35, 119, 107, 104,  35, 103, 108, 118, 102, 114, 256, 108, 113,  35, 119, 107, 104, 35, 115, 100, 117, 110,  49,  35,  87, 107, 104,  35, 103, 114, 106, 35, 108, 118,  35, 119, 107, 104,  35, 114, 113, 104,  35, 122, 107, 114,  35, 103, 114, 104, 118,  35, 100,  35, 101, 100, 111, 111,  35, 108, 113, 255,  35, 108, 113,  35, 119, 107, 104,  35, 115, 100, 117, 110,  49]
-
->>> # ^- Note how 258 descends to 257, 256, 255
-
->>> # Now we need to split on the sentinel tokens, let's write a short loop for this
->>> output_ids_list = []
->>> start_token = 0
->>> sentinel_token = 258
->>> while sentinel_token in output_ids:
-...     split_idx = output_ids.index(sentinel_token)
-...     output_ids_list.append(output_ids[start_token:split_idx])
-...     start_token = split_idx
-...     sentinel_token -= 1
-
->>> output_ids_list.append(output_ids[start_token:])
->>> output_string = tokenizer.batch_decode(output_ids_list)
->>> output_string
-['<pad>', 'is the one who does', ' in the disco', 'in the park. The dog is the one who does a ball in', ' in the park.']
+model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(
+    "google/byt5-xl",
+    torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+    device_map="auto",
+    quantization_config=quantization_config
+)
+
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("google/byt5-xl")
+input_ids = tokenizer("translate English to French: The weather is nice today.", return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
+
+output = model.generate(**input_ids)
+print(tokenizer.decode(output[0], skip_special_tokens=True))
 ```
 
+## Notes
+
+- It is recommended to use the tokenizer for batched inference and training.
+- The example below shows how to use the model without a tokenizer.
+
+    ```python
+    import torch
+    from transformers import AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
+    
+    model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("google/byt5-small")
+    
+    num_special_tokens = 3
+    
+    input_ids = torch.tensor([list("Life is like a box of chocolates.".encode("utf-8"))]) + num_special_tokens
+    labels = torch.tensor([list("La vie est comme une boîte de chocolat.".encode("utf-8"))]) + num_special_tokens
+    loss = model(input_ids, labels=labels).loss
+    loss.item()
+    ```
+
+- ByT5 uses the top byte values (258, 257, etc.) for masking instead of sentinel tokens like `{extra_id_0}`.
+
+    ```python
+    # Example: character-level denoising with mask tokens
+    input_ids = tokenizer("The dog chases a ball in the park.").input_ids
+    masked_input = torch.tensor([input_ids[:8] + [258] + input_ids[14:21] + [257] + input_ids[28:]])
+    output = model.generate(masked_input, max_length=100)
+    ```
 
 ## ByT5Tokenizer
 
 [[autodoc]] ByT5Tokenizer
-
-See [`ByT5Tokenizer`] for all details.