Bert Small Japanese

🚀 BERT small Japanese finance

This is a pre - trained BERT model for Japanese texts, offering efficient language processing capabilities in the Japanese financial domain.

🚀 Quick Start

This is a BERT model pretrained on texts in the Japanese language. The codes for the pretraining are available at retarfi/language-pretraining.

✨ Features

• Pretrained on Japanese texts, suitable for Japanese language processing tasks.
• The model architecture is based on BERT small, providing a balance between performance and resource consumption.

📚 Documentation

Model architecture

The model architecture is the same as BERT small in the original ELECTRA paper; 12 layers, 256 dimensions of hidden states, and 4 attention heads.

Training Data

The models are trained on the Japanese version of Wikipedia. The training corpus is generated from the Japanese version of Wikipedia, using Wikipedia dump file as of June 1, 2021. The corpus file is 2.9GB, consisting of approximately 20M sentences.

Tokenization

The texts are first tokenized by MeCab with IPA dictionary and then split into subwords by the WordPiece algorithm. The vocabulary size is 32768.

Training

The models are trained with the same configuration as BERT small in the original ELECTRA paper; 128 tokens per instance, 128 instances per batch, and 1.45M training steps.

Citation

@article{Suzuki-etal-2023-ipm,
  title = {Constructing and analyzing domain-specific language model for financial text mining},
  author = {Masahiro Suzuki and Hiroki Sakaji and Masanori Hirano and Kiyoshi Izumi},
  journal = {Information Processing & Management},
  volume = {60},
  number = {2},
  pages = {103194},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103194}
}

📄 License

The pretrained models are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike 4.0.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP21K12010.