This model was pretrained on the Icelandic Gigaword Corpus, which contains approximately 1.69B tokens, using default settings. The model uses a WordPiece tokenizer with a vocabulary size of 32,105.

This research was supported with Cloud TPUs from Google's TPU Research Cloud (TRC).

This project was funded by the Language Technology Programme for Icelandic 2019-2023. The programme, which is managed and coordinated by Almannarómur, is funded by the Icelandic Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.