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license: mit
language:
- en
- de
- fr
- fi
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# 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](https://github.com/stefan-it/hmByT5).
# 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](https://github.com/stefan-it/hmByT5/tree/main/hmbyt5-flax).
# 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`](https://huggingface.co/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](https://sites.research.google/trc/about/) (TRC).
Many Thanks for providing access to the TPUs ❤️
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