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It5 Base

Developed by gsarti
IT5 is the first attempt at large-scale sequence-to-sequence Transformer model pretraining specifically for Italian, based on the T5 model architecture.
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Release Time : 3/2/2022

Model Overview

This model is the base version for Italian text-to-text transformation, primarily used for Italian language understanding and generation tasks, and requires fine-tuning on downstream tasks before use.

Model Features

Italian-specific pretraining
The first large-scale pretrained sequence-to-sequence Transformer model specifically for Italian.
Based on improved T5 architecture
Uses the google/t5-v1_1-base improved configuration with gated GELU activation functions.
Large-scale training data
Trained on the cleaned Italian mC4 corpus (approximately 41 billion words).
Multi-framework support
Provides implementations in PyTorch, Flax, and TensorFlow.

Model Capabilities

Italian text understanding
Italian text generation
Sequence-to-sequence transformation

Use Cases

Text generation
News summarization
Automatic summarization of Italian news articles
Requires fine-tuning before use
Text transformation
Text paraphrasing
Rewriting and simplifying Italian text
Requires fine-tuning before use
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