| license: mit | |
| language: | |
| - nl | |
| # hmByT5 - Preliminary Language Models | |
| Preliminary Historic Multilingual and Monolingual ByT5 Models. Following languages are currently covered: | |
| * Dutch (Delpher Corpus) | |
| 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 ICDAR Europeana dataset: | |
| | Configuration | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 5 | Avg. | | |
| |------------------------------------------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|--------------| | |
| | `wsFalse-bs4-e10-lr0.00015-poolingfirst` | 88.02 | 88.71 | 87.17 | 87 | 88.62 | 87.9 ± 0.71 | | |
| | `wsFalse-bs8-e10-lr0.00015-poolingfirst` | 87.1 | 86.72 | 87.15 | 88.29 | 87.35 | 87.32 ± 0.53 | | |
| | `wsFalse-bs8-e10-lr0.00016-poolingfirst` | 87.23 | 87.19 | 87.11 | 87.62 | 87.11 | 87.25 ± 0.19 | | |
| | `wsFalse-bs4-e10-lr0.00016-poolingfirst` | 85.98 | 87.5 | 84.22 | 87.08 | 86.48 | 86.25 ± 1.14 | | |
| # 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 ❤️ | |