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🚀 Google's UMT5

UMT5 is a multilingual model pretrained on an updated mC4 corpus, covering 107 languages, offering more uniform language coverage and better performance.

🚀 Quick Start

UMT5 is a multilingual model with powerful language processing capabilities. It is pre - trained on an updated version of the mC4 corpus, covering 107 languages, including Afrikaans, Albanian, and many others.

✨ Features

• Multilingual Support: Covers 107 languages, enabling cross - language tasks.
• Updated Corpus: Pretrained on an updated version of the mC4 corpus, ensuring more comprehensive language data.
• New Sampling Method: Utilizes the UniMax sampling method, providing more uniform language coverage and mitigating overfitting on tail languages.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache - 2.0 license.

📚 Documentation

Model Information

• Model Link: [Google's UMT5](https://github.com/google - research/multilingual - t5)
• Pretraining Dataset: mC4
• Other Community Checkpoints: here
• Paper: UniMax, Fairer and More Effective Language Sampling for Large - Scale Multilingual Pretraining
• Authors: Hyung Won Chung, Xavier Garcia, Adam Roberts, Yi Tay, Orhan Firat, Sharan Narang, Noah Constant

Abstract

Pretrained multilingual large language models have typically used heuristic temperature - based sampling to balance between different languages. However previous work has not systematically evaluated the efficacy of different pretraining language distributions across model scales. In this paper, we propose a new sampling method, UniMax, that delivers more uniform coverage of head languages while mitigating overfitting on tail languages by explicitly capping the number of repeats over each language's corpus. We perform an extensive series of ablations testing a range of sampling strategies on a suite of multilingual benchmarks, while varying model scale. We find that UniMax outperforms standard temperature - based sampling, and the benefits persist as scale increases. As part of our contribution, we release: (i) an improved and refreshed mC4 multilingual corpus consisting of 29 trillion characters across 107 languages, and (ii) a suite of pretrained umT5 model checkpoints trained with UniMax sampling.

Note

⚠️ Important Note

UMT5 was only pre - trained on mC4 excluding any supervised training. Therefore, this model has to be fine - tuned before it is useable on a downstream task.

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