Model Description: This model is designed to translate text from English to Persian (Farsi) using the MT5-Small architecture. MT5 is a multilingual variant of the T5 model, pretrained on a diverse set of languages.

Intended Use: The model is intended for use in applications where automatic translation from English to Persian is required. It can be used for translating documents, web pages, or any other text-based content.

Model Architecture:

Model Type: MT5-Small
Language Pair: English (en) to Persian (fa)

Training Data

Dataset: The model was trained on a dataset consisting of 100,000 parallel sentences of English and Persian text. The data includes various sources to cover a wide range of topics and ensure diversity.

Data Preprocessing:

Text normalization was performed to ensure consistency.
Tokenization was done using the SentencePiece tokenizer.

Training Procedure

Training Configuration:

Number of Epochs: 4
Batch Size: 8
Learning Rate: 5e-5
Optimizer: AdamW

Hardware:

Training Environment: NVIDIA P100 GPU
Training Time: Approximately 4 hours

How To Use

python

import torch
from transformers import pipeline, MT5ForConditionalGeneration, MT5Tokenizer, Text2TextGenerationPipeline

# Function to translate using the pipeline
def translate_with_pipeline(text):
    translator = Text2TextGenerationPipeline(model='NLPclass/mt5_en_fa_translation',tokenizer='NLPclass/mt5_en_fa_translation')
    return translator(text,, max_length=128,num_beams=4)[0]['generated_text']


# Example usage
text = "Hello, how are you?"

# Using pipeline
print("Pipeline Translation:", translate_with_pipeline(text))

Ethical Considerations

The model's translations are only as good as the data it was trained on, and biases present in the training data may propagate through the model's outputs.
Users should be cautious when using the model for critical tasks, as automatic translations can sometimes be inaccurate or misleading.

Citation

If you use this model in your research or applications, please cite it as follows:

bibtex

@misc{mt5_en_fa_translation,
  author = {mansoorhamidzadeh},
  title = {English to Persian Translation using MT5-Small},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/mansoorhamidzadeh/mt5_en_fa_translation}},
}