Language model for Chuvash. Model has 1.3B parameters as you can guess from it's name.
Chuvash belongs to Turkic language family. It's a very rich language with approximately 1.1 million speakers. Here are some facts about it:
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. Chuvash mGPT 1.3B was trained for another 1000 steps with batch_size=4 and context window of 2048 tokens on 1 A100.
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!
