mGPT-1.3B-mari

🐻 Mari mGPT 1.3B

Language model for Mari. Model has 1.3B parameters as you can guess from it's name.

Mari belongs to Uralic language family. It's a very intricate language with approximately 0.4 million speakers. Here are some facts about it:

1. Spoken by the Mari people primarily in the Mari El Republic in Russia.
2. It has two main dialects: Hill Mari and Meadow Mari.
3. The Mari culture has one of the last surviving pagan traditions in Europe.

Technical details

It's one of the models derived from the base mGPT-XL (1.3B) model (see the list below) which was originally trained on the 61 languages from 25 language families using Wikipedia and C4 corpus.

We've found additional data for 23 languages most of which are considered as minor and decided to further tune the base model. Mari mGPT 1.3B was trained for another 5000 steps with batch_size=4 and context window of 2048 tokens on 1 A100.

Final perplexity for this model on validation is 21.19.

Chart of the training loss and perplexity:

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Feedback

If you'll found a bug of have additional data to train model on your language — please, give us feedback.

Model will be improved over time. Stay tuned!