google/canine-c

feature-extraction model by google

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Pretrained CANINE model on 104 languages using a masked language modeling (MLM) objective. It was introduced in the paper CANINE: Pre-training an Efficient Tokenization-Free Encoder for Language Representation and first released in this repository. What's special about CANINE is that it doesn't require an explicit tokenizer (such as WordPiece or SentencePiece) as other models like BERT and RoBERTa. Instead, it directly operates at a character level: each character is turned into its Unicode code point. This means that input processing is trivial and can typically be accomplished as: The ord() function is part of Python, and turns each character into its Unicode code point. Disclaimer: The team releasing CANINE did not write a model card for this model so this model card has been written by the Hugging Face team. CANINE is a transformers model pretrained on a large corpus of multilingual data in a self-supervised fashion, similar to BERT.…

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google/canine-c is a feature-extraction model repository published by google on Hugging Face. The source reports the transformers library.

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Task
feature-extraction
Library
transformers
Recent downloads (30 days)
148,281
Cumulative likes
48
Hugging Face trending score
0
Reported safetensors parameters
132,099,328
Architecture
CanineModel
License
apache-2.0
Access
Not gated by Hugging Face
Created
2022-03-02T23:29:05.000Z
Last modified
2024-04-29T10:16:15.000Z

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Reported languages: multilingual, af, sq, ar, an, hy, ast, az, ba, eu, bar, be, bn, inc, bs, br, bg, my, ca, ceb, ce, zh, cv, hr, cs, da, nl, en, et, fi, fr, gl, ka, de, el, gu, ht, he, hi, hu

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