diff --git a/bert/bert-base-japanese-v3/README.md b/bert/bert-base-japanese-v3/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c5b3456 --- /dev/null +++ b/bert/bert-base-japanese-v3/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +license: apache-2.0 +datasets: +- cc100 +- wikipedia +language: +- ja +widget: +- text: 東北大学で[MASK]の研究をしています。 +--- + +# BERT base Japanese (unidic-lite with whole word masking, CC-100 and jawiki-20230102) + +This is a [BERT](https://github.com/google-research/bert) model pretrained on texts in the Japanese language. + +This version of the model processes input texts with word-level tokenization based on the Unidic 2.1.2 dictionary (available in [unidic-lite](https://pypi.org/project/unidic-lite/) package), followed by the WordPiece subword tokenization. +Additionally, the model is trained with the whole word masking enabled for the masked language modeling (MLM) objective. + +The codes for the pretraining are available at [cl-tohoku/bert-japanese](https://github.com/cl-tohoku/bert-japanese/). + +## Model architecture + +The model architecture is the same as the original BERT base model; 12 layers, 768 dimensions of hidden states, and 12 attention heads. + +## Training Data + +The model is trained on the Japanese portion of [CC-100 dataset](https://data.statmt.org/cc-100/) and the Japanese version of Wikipedia. +For Wikipedia, we generated a text corpus from the [Wikipedia Cirrussearch dump file](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/cirrussearch/) as of January 2, 2023. +The corpus files generated from CC-100 and Wikipedia are 74.3GB and 4.9GB in size and consist of approximately 392M and 34M sentences, respectively. + +For the purpose of splitting texts into sentences, we used [fugashi](https://github.com/polm/fugashi) with [mecab-ipadic-NEologd](https://github.com/neologd/mecab-ipadic-neologd) dictionary (v0.0.7). + +## Tokenization + +The texts are first tokenized by MeCab with the Unidic 2.1.2 dictionary and then split into subwords by the WordPiece algorithm. +The vocabulary size is 32768. + +We used [fugashi](https://github.com/polm/fugashi) and [unidic-lite](https://github.com/polm/unidic-lite) packages for the tokenization. + +## Training + +We trained the model first on the CC-100 corpus for 1M steps and then on the Wikipedia corpus for another 1M steps. +For training of the MLM (masked language modeling) objective, we introduced whole word masking in which all of the subword tokens corresponding to a single word (tokenized by MeCab) are masked at once. + +For training of each model, we used a v3-8 instance of Cloud TPUs provided by [TPU Research Cloud](https://sites.research.google/trc/about/). + +## Licenses + +The pretrained models are distributed under the Apache License 2.0. + +## Acknowledgments + +This model is trained with Cloud TPUs provided by [TPU Research Cloud](https://sites.research.google/trc/about/) program.