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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- CANINE-c (CANINE pre-trained with autoregressive character loss)
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Model overview
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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Model facts
- 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
Compatibility and lineage
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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