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English-to-Arabic Translation using GPT-2
This project demonstrates how to fine-tune the GPT-2 model for the task of English-to-Arabic translation. GPT-2, a Transformer-based language model, is primarily designed for text generation tasks but can be adapted for translation tasks through fine-tuning on parallel datasets (in this case, English-Arabic sentence pairs).
Project Overview
The core of this project involves fine-tuning the pre-trained GPT-2 model to learn the task of translating English text into Arabic. Key characteristics of GPT-2, such as its Transformer architecture and self-attention mechanism, are leveraged to model the relationships between English and Arabic words, making it capable of generating translations.
Key Features
GPT-2 Architecture: A Transformer-based, decoder-only language model.
Self-Attention Mechanism: Allows the model to understand long-range dependencies between words, essential for accurate translation.
Pre-trained Model: Fine-tuned on a dataset of parallel English-Arabic sentence pairs to adapt the model to translation tasks.
Output Generation: The model generates the Arabic translation word-by-word, based on the context of the input English sentence.
Project Structure
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/English-to-Arabic-Translation
βββ /data
β βββ english_arabic_data.csv # Parallel English-Arabic sentence pairs dataset
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βββ /scripts
β βββ fine_tune_gpt2.py # Script for fine-tuning GPT-2 on the dataset
β βββ translate.py # Script for generating translations using the fine-tuned model
β βββ preprocess.py # Script for preprocessing the dataset (tokenization, formatting)
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βββ /models
β βββ gpt2_finetuned_model # Directory containing the fine-tuned GPT-2 model
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βββ README.md # This file
Requirements
The following libraries and tools are required to run the project:
Python 3.6+
TensorFlow or PyTorch
Hugging Face Transformers library
pandas
numpy
tqdm
matplotlib (optional, for loss visualization)
You can install the necessary dependencies by running:
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pip install -r requirements.txt
Dataset:
https: //huggingface.co/datasets/saillab/taco-datasets/tree/main/multilingual-instruction-tuning-dataset/multilingual-alpaca-52k-gpt-4Links
This project requires a parallel English-Arabic dataset for fine-tuning. You can create your own dataset, or if available, use existing datasets like the Opus dataset or Tanzil for this purpose.
The dataset should be in a CSV format containing two columns: one for English sentences and one for Arabic sentences.
Example of the CSV format:
English Sentence Arabic Sentence
Hello, how are you? Ω
Ψ±ΨΨ¨Ψ§ ΩΩΩ ΨΨ§ΩΩΨ
What is your name? Ω
Ψ§ Ψ§Ψ³Ω
ΩΨ
Training Process
Fine-tuning GPT-2
To fine-tune the GPT-2 model on the English-Arabic translation dataset, run the following script:
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python scripts/fine_tune_gpt2.py
This will:
Load the pre-trained GPT-2 model.
Preprocess the dataset by tokenizing the English and Arabic sentences.
Fine-tune the model using the parallel English-Arabic sentences.
Save the fine-tuned model to the models/ directory.
Training details:
Epochs: 10 epochs (adjustable depending on model performance).
Optimizer: Adam optimizer.
Loss Function: Cross-entropy loss.
Monitoring Training
You can track training and validation losses during fine-tuning to ensure the model is learning. The training process may exhibit fluctuations in validation loss, indicating potential overfitting.
Translation Process
Once the model is fine-tuned, you can use it to generate Arabic translations from English input sentences by running:
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python scripts/translate.py --input_text "Hello, how are you?"
This will generate the Arabic translation for the input sentence using the fine-tuned GPT-2 model.
Evaluation Metrics
After training, the model is evaluated using the following metrics:
Perplexity: Measures how well the model predicts the next token in a sequence. Lower perplexity indicates better performance.
BLEU Score: Measures the precision of n-grams in the translation output compared to reference translations. A BLEU score of 0 indicates poor translation.
CHRF Score: Based on character-level n-grams, this score assesses translation quality.
During the initial tests, the BLEU score was 0, suggesting poor performance, and the perplexity was high (2849.448), indicating that the model had trouble predicting the next word.
Challenges & Limitations
Overfitting: The model may struggle to generalize well to new sentences, especially with small datasets or too many epochs.
Data Quality: Errors in the training data can result in poor translations.
Arabic Specificity: Arabic is a complex language with different forms and structures that can make translation difficult for a model not specifically designed for it.
Future Work
Increase Training Data: Using larger and more diverse parallel datasets can help improve model performance.
Fine-Tune for More Epochs: More epochs may help the model learn more accurate translations.
Experiment with Other Models: For better translation results, try models specifically designed for translation tasks like MarianMT or T5.
Conclusion
The GPT-2 model demonstrates potential for English-to-Arabic translation but requires more fine-tuning, data quality improvement, and training time to generate high-quality translations. Addressing overfitting, increasing the training data, and exploring specialized models will help improve results.