osiria/distilbert-base-italian-cased

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    Model: DistilBERT
    Lang: IT
  
 

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Model description

This is a DistilBERT [1] model for the Italian language, obtained using the multilingual DistilBERT (distilbert-base-multilingual-cased) as a starting point and focusing it on the Italian language by modifying the embedding layer (as in [2], computing document-level frequencies over the Wikipedia dataset)

The resulting model has 67M parameters, a vocabulary of 30.785 tokens, and a size of ~270 MB.

Quick usage

from transformers import BertTokenizerFast, DistilBertModel

tokenizer = DistilBertTokenizerFast.from_pretrained("osiria/distilbert-base-italian-cased")
model = DistilBertModel.from_pretrained("osiria/distilbert-base-italian-cased")

References

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01108

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.05609

License

The model is released under Apache-2.0 license