Model Card: EUBERT

Overview

Model Name: EUBERT
Model Version: 1.1
Date of Release: 16 October 2023
Model Architecture: BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers)
Training Data: Documents registered by the European Publications Office
Model Use Case: Text Classification, Question Answering, Language Understanding

Model Description

EUBERT is a pretrained BERT uncased model that has been trained on a vast corpus of documents registered by the European Publications Office. These documents span the last 30 years, providing a comprehensive dataset that encompasses a wide range of topics and domains. EUBERT is designed to be a versatile language model that can be fine-tuned for various natural language processing tasks, making it a valuable resource for a variety of applications.

Intended Use

EUBERT serves as a starting point for building more specific natural language understanding models. Its versatility makes it suitable for a wide range of tasks, including but not limited to:

Text Classification: EUBERT can be fine-tuned for classifying text documents into different categories, making it useful for applications such as sentiment analysis, topic categorization, and spam detection.
Question Answering: By fine-tuning EUBERT on question-answering datasets, it can be used to extract answers from text documents, facilitating tasks like information retrieval and document summarization.
Language Understanding: EUBERT can be employed for general language understanding tasks, including named entity recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and text generation.

Performance

The specific performance metrics of EUBERT may vary depending on the downstream task and the quality and quantity of training data used for fine-tuning. Users are encouraged to fine-tune the model on their specific task and evaluate its performance accordingly.

Considerations

Data Privacy and Compliance: Users should ensure that the use of EUBERT complies with all relevant data privacy and compliance regulations, especially when working with sensitive or personally identifiable information.
Fine-Tuning: The effectiveness of EUBERT on a given task depends on the quality and quantity of the training data, as well as the fine-tuning process. Careful experimentation and evaluation are essential to achieve optimal results.
Bias and Fairness: Users should be aware of potential biases in the training data and take appropriate measures to mitigate bias when fine-tuning EUBERT for specific tasks.

Conclusion

EUBERT is a pretrained BERT model that leverages a substantial corpus of documents from the European Publications Office. It offers a versatile foundation for developing natural language processing solutions across a wide range of applications, enabling researchers and developers to create custom models for text classification, question answering, and language understanding tasks. Users are encouraged to exercise diligence in fine-tuning and evaluating the model for their specific use cases while adhering to data privacy and fairness considerations.

Training procedure

Dedicated Word Piece tokenizer vocabulary size 2**16,

Training hyperparameters

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

learning_rate: 5e-05
train_batch_size: 32
eval_batch_size: 32
seed: 42
optimizer: Adam with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08
lr_scheduler_type: linear
num_epochs: 1.85

Training results

Coming soon

Framework versions

Transformers 4.33.3
Pytorch 2.0.1+cu117
Datasets 2.14.5
Tokenizers 0.13.3

Infrastructure

Hardware Type: 4 x GPUs 24GB
GPU Days: 16
Cloud Provider: EuroHPC
Compute Region: Meluxina

Author(s)

Sébastien Campion sebastien.campion@europarl.europa.eu

EuropeanParliament
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