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+ language: de
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+ license: mit
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+ datasets:
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+ - german-nlp-group/german_common_crawl
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+ ---
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+ # GC4LM: A Colossal (Biased) language model for German
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+ This repository presents a colossal (and biased) language model for German trained on the recently released
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+ ["German colossal, clean Common Crawl corpus"](https://german-nlp-group.github.io/projects/gc4-corpus.html) (GC4),
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+ with a total dataset size of ~844GB.
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+ ---
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+ **Disclaimer**: the presented and trained language models in this repository are for **research only** purposes.
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+ The GC4 corpus - that was used for training - contains crawled texts from the internet. Thus, the language models can
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+ be considered as highly biased, resulting in a model that encodes stereotypical associations along gender, race,
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+ ethnicity and disability status. Before using and working with the released checkpoints, it is highly recommended
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+ to read:
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+ [On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?](https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/papers/Stochastic_Parrots.pdf)
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+ from Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major and Shmargaret Shmitchell.
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+ The aim of the released checkpoints is to boost research on large pre-trained language models for German, especially
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+ for identifying biases and how to prevent them, as most research is currently done only for English.
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+ Please use the new GitHub Discussions feature in order to discuss or present further research questions.
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+ Feel free to use `#gc4lm` on Twitter 🐦.
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