VBART is the first sequence-to-sequence LLM pre-trained on Turkish corpora from scratch on a large scale. It was pre-trained by VNGRS in February 2023.
The model is capable of conditional text generation tasks such as text summarization, paraphrasing, and title generation when fine-tuned.
It outperforms its multilingual counterparts, albeit being much smaller than other implementations.
VBART-XLarge is created by adding extra Transformer layers between the layers of VBART-Large. Hence it was able to transfer learned weights from the smaller model while doublings its number of layers.
VBART-XLarge improves the results compared to VBART-Large albeit in small margins.
This repository contains fine-tuned TensorFlow and Safetensors weights of VBART for sentence-level text paraphrasing task.
1from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM
23tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("vngrs-ai/VBART-XLarge-Paraphrasing",4 model_input_names=['input_ids','attention_mask'])5# Uncomment the device_map kwarg and delete the closing bracket to use model for inference on GPU6model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("vngrs-ai/VBART-XLarge-Paraphrasing")#, device_map="auto")78input_text="..."910token_input = tokenizer(input_text, return_tensors="pt")#.to('cuda')11outputs = model.generate(**token_input)12print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0]))
Training Details
Training Data
The base model is pre-trained on vngrs-web-corpus. It is curated by cleaning and filtering Turkish parts of OSCAR-2201 and mC4 datasets. These datasets consist of documents of unstructured web crawl data. More information about the dataset can be found on their respective pages. Data is filtered using a set of heuristics and certain rules, explained in the appendix of our paper.
This model is fine-tuned for paraphrasing tasks and finetuned in sentence level only. It is not intended to be used in any other case and can not be fine-tuned to any other task with full performance of the base model. It is also not guaranteed that this model will work without specified prompts.
Training Procedure
Pre-trained for 8 days and for a total of 84B tokens. Finetuned for 25 epoch.
Hardware
GPUs: 8 x Nvidia A100-80 GB
Software
TensorFlow
Hyperparameters
Pretraining
Training regime: fp16 mixed precision
Training objective: Sentence permutation and span masking (using mask lengths sampled from Poisson distribution λ=3.5, masking 30% of tokens)
@article{turker2024vbart,
title={VBART: The Turkish LLM},
author={Turker, Meliksah and Ari, Erdi and Han, Aydin},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.01308},
year={2024}
}