sshleifer/distill-pegasus-xsum-16-4

summarization model by sshleifer

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See Docs: here Original TF 1 code here Authors: Jingqing Zhang, Yao Zhao, Mohammad Saleh and Peter J. Liu on Dec 18, 2019 Maintained by: @sshleifer Task: Summarization The following is copied from the authors' README. We train a pegasus model with sampled gap sentence ratios on both C4 and HugeNews, and stochastically sample important sentences. The updated the results are reported in this table. The "Mixed & Stochastic" model has the following changes: () the numbers of wikihow and bigpatent datasets are not comparable because of change in tokenization and data: The "Mixed & Stochastic" model has the following changes (from…

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sshleifer/distill-pegasus-xsum-16-4 is a summarization model repository published by sshleifer on Hugging Face. The source reports the transformers library.

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Task
summarization
Library
transformers
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PegasusForConditionalGeneration
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Created
2022-03-02T23:29:05.000Z
Last modified
2020-10-14T16:16:54.000Z

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