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hmByT5 - Preliminary Language Models

Preliminary Historic Multilingual and Monolingual ByT5 Models. Following languages are currently covered:

  • English (British Library Corpus - Books)

More details can be found in our GitHub repository.

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.

This model was trained with mean_noise_span_length=20.

Evaluation on Downstream Tasks (NER)

We evaluated the hmByT5 Base model on English AjMC dataset:

Configuration Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Avg.
wsFalse-bs8-e10-lr0.00015-poolingfirst 86.51 87.2 86.22 85.78 86.46 86.43 ± 0.46
wsFalse-bs4-e10-lr0.00016-poolingfirst 86.12 87.04 87.01 85.25 86.74 86.43 ± 0.68
wsFalse-bs8-e10-lr0.00016-poolingfirst 86.49 85.27 86.12 86.29 85.61 85.96 ± 0.45
wsFalse-bs4-e10-lr0.00015-poolingfirst 86.33 86.05 84.48 85.68 86.16 85.74 ± 0.67

The ByT5 Small model achieves 85.65 ± 1.21 on this dataset.

Acknowledgements

Research supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's TPU Research Cloud (TRC). Many Thanks for providing access to the TPUs ❤️

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