---
language: en
tags:
- summarization
model-index:
- name: google/pegasus-wikihow
  results:
  - task:
      type: summarization
      name: Summarization
    dataset:
      name: xsum
      type: xsum
      config: default
      split: test
    metrics:
    - name: ROUGE-1
      type: rouge
      value: 26.8725
      verified: true
    - name: ROUGE-2
      type: rouge
      value: 8.0877
      verified: true
    - name: ROUGE-L
      type: rouge
      value: 19.9803
      verified: true
    - name: ROUGE-LSUM
      type: rouge
      value: 20.3022
      verified: true
    - name: loss
      type: loss
      value: 2.743246555328369
      verified: true
    - name: gen_len
      type: gen_len
      value: 43.6887
      verified: true
---

### Pegasus Models
See Docs: [here](https://huggingface.co/transformers/master/model_doc/pegasus.html)

Original TF 1 code [here](https://github.com/google-research/pegasus)

Authors: Jingqing Zhang, Yao Zhao, Mohammad Saleh and Peter J. Liu on Dec 18, 2019

Maintained by: [@sshleifer](https://twitter.com/sam_shleifer)

Task: Summarization

The following is copied from the authors' README.

# Mixed & Stochastic Checkpoints

We train a pegasus model with sampled gap sentence ratios on both C4 and HugeNews, and stochastically sample important sentences. The updated the results are reported in this table.

| dataset | C4 | HugeNews | Mixed & Stochastic|
| ---- | ---- | ---- | ----|
| xsum | 45.20/22.06/36.99 | 47.21/24.56/39.25 | 47.60/24.83/39.64|
| cnn_dailymail | 43.90/21.20/40.76 | 44.17/21.47/41.11 | 44.16/21.56/41.30|
| newsroom | 45.07/33.39/41.28 | 45.15/33.51/41.33 | 45.98/34.20/42.18|
| multi_news | 46.74/17.95/24.26 | 47.52/18.72/24.91 | 47.65/18.75/24.95|
| gigaword | 38.75/19.96/36.14 | 39.12/19.86/36.24 | 39.65/20.47/36.76|
| wikihow | 43.07/19.70/34.79 | 41.35/18.51/33.42 | 46.39/22.12/38.41 *|
| reddit_tifu | 26.54/8.94/21.64 | 26.63/9.01/21.60 | 27.99/9.81/22.94|
| big_patent | 53.63/33.16/42.25 | 53.41/32.89/42.07 | 52.29/33.08/41.66 *|
| arxiv | 44.70/17.27/25.80 | 44.67/17.18/25.73 | 44.21/16.95/25.67|
| pubmed | 45.49/19.90/27.69 | 45.09/19.56/27.42 | 45.97/20.15/28.25|
| aeslc | 37.69/21.85/36.84 | 37.40/21.22/36.45 | 37.68/21.25/36.51|
| billsum | 57.20/39.56/45.80 | 57.31/40.19/45.82 | 59.67/41.58/47.59|

The "Mixed & Stochastic" model has the following changes:
- trained on both C4 and HugeNews (dataset mixture is weighted by their number of examples). 
- trained for 1.5M instead of 500k (we observe slower convergence on pretraining perplexity).
- the model uniformly sample a gap sentence ratio between 15% and 45%.
- importance sentences are sampled using a 20% uniform noise to importance scores.
- the sentencepiece tokenizer is updated to be able to encode newline character.


(*) the numbers of wikihow and big_patent datasets are not comparable because of change in tokenization and data:
- wikihow dataset contains newline characters which is useful for paragraph segmentation, the C4 and HugeNews model's sentencepiece tokenizer doesn't encode newline and loose this information.
- we update the BigPatent dataset to preserve casing, some format cleanings are also changed, please refer to change in TFDS.


The "Mixed & Stochastic" model has the following changes (from pegasus-large in the paper):


trained on both C4 and HugeNews (dataset mixture is weighted by their number of examples).
trained for 1.5M instead of 500k (we observe slower convergence on pretraining perplexity).
the model uniformly sample a gap sentence ratio between 15% and 45%.
importance sentences are sampled using a 20% uniform noise to importance scores.
the sentencepiece tokenizer is updated to be able to encode newline character.


Citation
```


@misc{zhang2019pegasus,
    title={PEGASUS: Pre-training with Extracted Gap-sentences for Abstractive Summarization},
    author={Jingqing Zhang and Yao Zhao and Mohammad Saleh and Peter J. Liu},
    year={2019},
    eprint={1912.08777},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```