tam_taml_1000mb

Goldfish is a suite of monolingual language models trained for 350 languages. This model is the Tamil (Tamil script) model trained on 1000MB of data, after accounting for an estimated byte premium of 2.73; content-matched text in Tamil takes on average 2.73x as many UTF-8 bytes to encode as English. The Goldfish models are trained primarily for comparability across languages and for low-resource languages; Goldfish performance for high-resource languages is not designed to be comparable with modern large language models (LLMs).

Note: This language is available in Goldfish with other scripts (writing systems). See: tam_latn.

Note: tam_taml is an individual language code. It is not contained in any macrolanguage codes contained in Goldfish (for script taml).

All training and hyperparameter details are in our paper, Goldfish: Monolingual Language Models for 350 Languages (Chang et al., 2024).

Training code and sample usage: https://github.com/tylerachang/goldfish

Sample usage also in this Google Colab: link

Model details:

To access all Goldfish model details programmatically, see https://github.com/tylerachang/goldfish/blob/main/model_details.json. All models are trained with a [CLS] (same as [BOS]) token prepended, and a [SEP] (same as [EOS]) token separating sequences. For best results, make sure that [CLS] is prepended to your input sequence (see sample usage linked above)! Details for this model specifically:

• Architecture: gpt2
• Parameters: 124770816
• Maximum sequence length: 512 tokens
• Training text data (raw): 2729.10MB
• Training text data (byte premium scaled): 1000.005MB
• Training tokens: 200523264 (x10 epochs)
• Vocabulary size: 50000
• Compute cost: 1.023409295327232e+18 FLOPs or ~96.8 NVIDIA A6000 GPU hours

Training datasets (percentages prior to deduplication):

• 36.08815%: MADLAD-400 (CommonCrawl)
• 33.39717%: OSCAR 2021/09
• 19.80765%: NLLB (CommonCrawl and ParaCrawl)
• 10.41716%: Glot500, including AI4Bharat, Anuvaad, CCNet, OSCAR, TICO, W2C, WikiMatrix
• 0.28987%: eBible

Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

@article{chang-etal-2024-goldfish,
  title={Goldfish: Monolingual Language Models for 350 Languages},
  author={Chang, Tyler A. and Arnett, Catherine and Tu, Zhuowen and Bergen, Benjamin K.},
  journal={Preprint},
  year={2024},
  url={https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.10441},
}