---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- en
- de
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

![image/png](https://huggingface.co/datasets/malteos/images/resolve/main/occiglot.medium.png)

# Occiglot-7B-DE-EN

> A [polyglot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism#In_individuals) language model for the [Occident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occident).
> 

**Occiglot-7B-DE-EN** is a generative language model with 7B parameters for German and English and trained by the [Occiglot Research Collective](occiglot.eu).
It is based on [Mistral-7B-v0.1](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1) and trained on 114B tokens of additional multilingual and code data with a block size of 8,192 tokens per sample.
Note that the model is a general-purpose base model and was not instruction-fine-tuned nor optimized for chat or other applications. We make an instruction tuned variant available as [occiglot-7b-de-en-instruct](https://huggingface.co/occiglot/occiglot-7b-de-en-instruct)

This is the first release of an ongoing open research project for multilingual language models. 
If you want to train a model for your own language or are working on evaluations, please contact us or join our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/wUpvYs4XvM). **We are open for collaborations!**


### Model details

- **Continued-pretraining from:** [Mistral-7B-v0.1](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1)
- **Model type:** Causal decoder-only transformer language model
- **Languages:** English, German, and code.
- **License:** [Apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)
- **Compute resources:** [HessianAI's 42](https://hessian.ai/)
- **Contributors:** Manuel Brack, Patrick Schramowski, Pedro Ortiz, Malte Ostendorff, Fabio Barth, Georg Rehm, Kristian Kersting
- **Research labs:** [Occiglot](https://ociglot.eu) with support from [SAINT](https://www.dfki.de/en/web/research/research-departments/foundations-of-systems-ai) and [SLT](https://www.dfki.de/en/web/research/research-departments/speech-and-language-technology)
- **Contact:** [Discord](https://discord.gg/wUpvYs4XvM) [hello@occiglot.org](mailto:hello@occiglot.org)

### How to use

You can use this model directly with a pipeline for text generation. Since the generation relies on some randomness, we
set a seed for reproducibility:

```python
>>> from transformers import pipeline, set_seed
>>> generator = pipeline('text-generation', model='occiglot/occiglot-7b-de-en')
>>> set_seed(42)
>>> generator("Hallo, Ich bin ein Sprachmodell,", max_length=40, num_return_sequences=1)
[{'generated_text': 'Hallo, Ich bin ein Sprachmodell, das dir bei der Übersetzung von Texten zwischen Deutsch und Englisch helfen kann. Wenn du mir einen Text in Deutsch'}]
```

## Dataset

The training data is the respective subset of the data used for [occiglot-7b-eu5](https://huggingface.co/occiglot/occiglot-7b-eu5), i.e. German plus English and Code.

The data distribution by language (estimated) is as follows:
- English: ~34%
- Code: ~13%
- German: ~52%

The training data was prepared using [lm-datasets](https://github.com/malteos/lm-datasets). 
The exact data configuration is [here](https://huggingface.co/occiglot/occiglot-7b-eu5/blob/main/lm-datasets-config.yml).

## Training settings

- Continual pre-training on 128 x A100-80GB on [HessianAI's 42](https://hessian.ai/). 
- Framework: [Determined](https://www.determined.ai/)
- Precision: bf16
- Optimizer: AdamW (lr: 0.00001, warmup_steps: 420)
- Global batch size: 512 (with 8192 blocksize) split over 128 GPUs
- Cosine Annealing with Warmup


## Tokenizer

Tokenizer is unchanged from [Mistral-7B-v0.1](https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1).

## Evaluation

Preliminary evaluation results can be found below. 
Please note that the non-English results are based on partially machine-translated datasets and English prompts ([Belebele](https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/belebele) and [Okapi framework](https://github.com/nlp-uoregon/Okapi)) and thus should be interpreted with caution, e.g., biased towards English model performance.
Currently, we are working on more suitable benchmarks for Spanish, French, German, and Italian.

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## Acknowledgements

The model training was supported by a compute grant at the [42 supercomputer](https://hessian.ai/)  which is a central component in the development of [hessian AI](https://hessian.ai/), the [AI Innovation Lab](https://hessian.ai/infrastructure/ai-innovationlab/) (funded by the [Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Art (HMWK)](https://wissenschaft.hessen.de) & the [Hessian Ministry of the Interior, for Security and Homeland Security (HMinD)](https://innen.hessen.de)) and the [AI Service Centers](https://hessian.ai/infrastructure/ai-service-centre/) (funded by the [German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)](https://www.bmwk.de/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html)).
The curation of the training data is partially funded by the [German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK)](https://www.bmwk.de/Navigation/EN/Home/home.html)
through the project [OpenGPT-X](https://opengpt-x.de/en/) (project no. 68GX21007D).


## License

[Apache 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html)

## See also

- https://huggingface.co/collections/occiglot/occiglot-eu5-7b-v01-65dbed502a6348b052695e01