metadata

license: apache-2.0
language:
  - kau
  - knc
datasets:
  - allenai/nllb
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
  - goldfish
  - arxiv:2408.10441

knc_arab_full

Goldfish is a suite of monolingual language models trained for 350 languages. This model is the Central Kanuri (Arabic script) model trained on 221MB of data (all our data in the language), after accounting for an estimated byte premium of 2.50; content-matched text in Central Kanuri takes on average 2.50x as many UTF-8 bytes to encode as English. The Goldfish models are trained primarily for comparability across languages and for low-resource languages; Goldfish performance for high-resource languages is not designed to be comparable with modern large language models (LLMs).

Note: This language is available in Goldfish with other scripts (writing systems). See: knc_latn.

Note: knc_arab is an individual language code. It is not contained in any macrolanguage codes contained in Goldfish (for script arab).

All training and hyperparameter details are in our paper, Goldfish: Monolingual Language Models for 350 Languages (Chang et al., 2024).

Training code and sample usage: https://github.com/tylerachang/goldfish

Sample usage also in this Google Colab: link

Model details:

To access all Goldfish model details programmatically, see https://github.com/tylerachang/goldfish/blob/main/model_details.json. All models are trained with a [CLS] (same as [BOS]) token prepended, and a [SEP] (same as [EOS]) token separating sequences. For best results, make sure that [CLS] is prepended to your input sequence (see sample usage linked above)! Details for this model specifically:

Architecture: gpt2
Parameters: 124770816
Maximum sequence length: 512 tokens
Training text data (raw): 554.56MB
Training text data (byte premium scaled): 221.655MB
Training tokens: 237422592 (x10 epochs)
Vocabulary size: 50000
Compute cost: 1.211661320454144e+18 FLOPs or ~114.6 NVIDIA A6000 GPU hours

Training datasets (percentages prior to deduplication):

100.00000%: NLLB (CommonCrawl and ParaCrawl)

Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

@article{chang-etal-2024-goldfish,
  title={Goldfish: Monolingual Language Models for 350 Languages},
  author={Chang, Tyler A. and Arnett, Catherine and Tu, Zhuowen and Bergen, Benjamin K.},
  journal={Preprint},
  year={2024},
  url={https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.10441},
}