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language: hi
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# Releasing Hindi ELECTRA model

This is a first attempt at a Hindi language model trained with Google Research's [ELECTRA](https://github.com/google-research/electra).  **I don't modify ELECTRA until we get into finetuning**

<a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1R8TciRSM7BONJRBc9CBZbzOmz39FTLl_">Tokenization and training CoLab</a>

<a href="https://medium.com/@mapmeld/teaching-hindi-to-electra-b11084baab81">Blog post</a>

I was greatly influenced by: https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-train

## Corpus

Download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SXzisKq33wuqrwbfp428xeu_hDxXVUUu?usp=sharing

The corpus is two files:
- Hindi CommonCrawl deduped by OSCAR https://traces1.inria.fr/oscar/
- latest Hindi Wikipedia ( https://dumps.wikimedia.org/hiwiki/ ) + WikiExtractor to txt

Bonus notes:
- Adding English wiki text or parallel corpus could help with cross-lingual tasks and training

## Vocabulary

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-6tXrii3tVxjkbrpSJE9MOG_HhbvP66V/view?usp=sharing

Bonus notes:
- Created with HuggingFace Tokenizers; could be longer or shorter, review ELECTRA vocab_size param

## Training

Structure your files, with data-dir named "trainer" here

```
trainer
- vocab.txt
- pretrain_tfrecords
-- (all .tfrecord... files)
- models
-- modelname
--- checkpoint
--- graph.pbtxt
--- model.*
```

CoLab notebook gives examples of GPU vs. TPU setup

[configure_pretraining.py](https://github.com/google-research/electra/blob/master/configure_pretraining.py)

## Using this model with Transformers

Sample movie reviews classifier: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1mSeeSfVSOT7e-dVhPlmSsQRvpn6xC05w

Slightly outperforms Multilingual BERT on these Hindi Movie Reviews from https://github.com/sid573/Hindi_Sentiment_Analysis