hmByT5 - Preliminary Language Models
Preliminary Historic Multilingual and Monolingual ByT5 Models. Following languages are currently covered:
- English (British Library Corpus - Books)
- German (Europeana Newspaper)
- French (Europeana Newspaper)
- Finnish (Europeana Newspaper)
More details can be found in our GitHub repository.
Pretraining
We use the official JAX/FLAX example in Hugging Face Transformers to pretrain a ByT5 model on a single v3-8 TPU. Details about the training can be found here.
Evaluation on Downstream Tasks (NER)
We evaluated the hmByT5 model on downstream tasks:
Model | English AjMC | German AjMC | French AjMC | Finnish NewsEye | Swedish NewsEye | Dutch ICDAR | French ICDAR | Avg. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
hmbyt5-preliminary/byt5-small-english-german-french-finnish |
85.30 ± 1.14 | 87.37 ± 0.53 | 84.12 ± 0.42 |
Acknowledgements
Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's TPU Research Cloud (TRC). Many Thanks for providing access to the TPUs ❤️
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