README.md

---
license: apache-2.0
language:
- tam
datasets:
- allenai/MADLAD-400
- oscar-corpus/OSCAR-2109
- allenai/nllb
- cis-lmu/Glot500
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
tags:
- goldfish
- arxiv:2408.10441
---

# tam_taml_100mb

Goldfish is a suite of monolingual language models trained for 350 languages.
This model is the <b>Tamil</b> (Tamil script) model trained on 100MB of data, after accounting for an estimated byte premium of 2.73; content-matched text in Tamil takes on average 2.73x as many UTF-8 bytes to encode as English.
The Goldfish models are trained primarily for comparability across languages and for low-resource languages; Goldfish performance for high-resource languages is not designed to be comparable with modern large language models (LLMs).

Note: This language is available in Goldfish with other scripts (writing systems). See: tam_latn.

Note: tam_taml is an [individual language](https://iso639-3.sil.org/code_tables/639/data) code. It is not contained in any macrolanguage codes contained in Goldfish (for script taml).

All training and hyperparameter details are in our paper, [Goldfish: Monolingual Language Models for 350 Languages (Chang et al., 2024)](https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.10441).

Training code and sample usage: https://github.com/tylerachang/goldfish

Sample usage also in this Google Colab: [link](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1rHFpnQsyXJ32ONwCosWZ7frjOYjbGCXG?usp=sharing)

## Model details:

To access all Goldfish model details programmatically, see https://github.com/tylerachang/goldfish/blob/main/model_details.json.
All models are trained with a [CLS] (same as [BOS]) token prepended, and a [SEP] (same as [EOS]) token separating sequences.
For best results, make sure that [CLS] is prepended to your input sequence (see sample usage linked above)!
Details for this model specifically:

* Architecture: gpt2
* Parameters: 124770816
* Maximum sequence length: 512 tokens
* Training text data (raw): 272.91MB
* Training text data (byte premium scaled): 100.005MB
* Training tokens: 20064256 (x10 epochs)
* Vocabulary size: 50000
* Compute cost: 1.02445289570304e+17 FLOPs or ~9.7 NVIDIA A6000 GPU hours

Training datasets (percentages prior to deduplication):
* 36.08815%: [MADLAD-400 (CommonCrawl)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/MADLAD-400)
* 33.39717%: [OSCAR 2021/09](https://huggingface.co/datasets/oscar-corpus/OSCAR-2109)
* 19.80765%: [NLLB (CommonCrawl and ParaCrawl)](https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/nllb)
* 10.41716%: [Glot500](https://huggingface.co/datasets/cis-lmu/Glot500), including [AI4Bharat](https://ai4bharat.org/), [Anuvaad](https://github.com/project-anuvaad/anuvaad-parallel-corpus), [CCNet](https://github.com/facebookresearch/cc_net), [OSCAR](https://oscar-project.org/), [TICO](https://tico-19.github.io/), [W2C](https://lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/xmlui/handle/11858/00-097C-0000-0022-6133-9), [WikiMatrix](https://github.com/facebookresearch/LASER/tree/main/tasks/WikiMatrix)
* 0.28987%: [eBible](https://ebible.org/find/)


## Citation

If you use this model, please cite:

```
@article{chang-etal-2024-goldfish,
  title={Goldfish: Monolingual Language Models for 350 Languages},
  author={Chang, Tyler A. and Arnett, Catherine and Tu, Zhuowen and Bergen, Benjamin K.},
  journal={Preprint},
  year={2024},
  url={https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2408.10441},
}
```