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---
language:
- dutch
tags:
- seq2seq
- text-generation
datasets:
- mc4
---
# t5-base-dutch
> This model was created during the
[Flax/Jax Community Week](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/pretrain-t5-from-scratch-in-dutch/8109), organized by [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/) and TPU usage sponsored by Google.
Want to give it a try? Head over to Hugging Face Spaces [here](https://huggingface.co/spaces/flax-community/netherformer).
See also the fine-tuned [t5-base-dutch-demo](https://huggingface.co/flax-community/t5-base-dutch-demo) model, that is based on this model.
## Dataset
This model was trained on a cleaned version of C4.
See the `clean` directory for the clean script.
* Documents that contained words from a selection of the Dutch and English [List of Dirty Naught Obscene and Otherwise Bad Words](https://github.com/LDNOOBW/List-of-Dirty-Naughty-Obscene-and-Otherwise-Bad-Words) are removed
* Sentences with less than 3 words are removed
* Sentences with a word of more than 1000 characters are removed
* Documents with less than 5 sentences are removed
* Documents with "javascript", "lorum ipsum", "terms of use", "privacy policy", "cookie policy", "uses cookies",
"use of cookies", "use cookies", "elementen ontbreken", "deze printversie" are removed.
## Training
The model was trained for 63000 steps with a batch size of 128, ending in a evaluation loss = 1.79 and accuracy = 0.64.