README.md

metadata

language:
  - dv
license: apache-2.0

BERT base for Dhivehi

Pretrained model on Dhivehi language using masked language modeling (MLM).

Tokenizer

The WordPiece tokenizer uses several components:

• Normalization: lowercase and then NFKD unicode normalization.
• Pretokenization: splits by whitespace and punctuation.
• Postprocessing: single sentences are output in format [CLS] sentence A [SEP] and pair sentences in format [CLS] sentence A [SEP] sentence B [SEP].

Training

Training was performed over 16M+ Dhivehi sentences/paragraphs put together by @ashraq. An Adam optimizer with weighted decay was used with following parameters:

• Learning rate: 1e-5
• Weight decay: 0.1
• Warmup steps: 10% of data