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license: mit
language:
- en
tags:
- babylm
---

# Lil-Bevo

Lil-Bevo is UT Austin's submission to the BabyLM challenge, specifically the *strict-small* track.

[Link to GitHub Repo](https://github.com/venkatasg/Lil-Bevo)

## TLDR:
- Unigram tokenizer trained on 10M BabyLM tokens plus MAESTRO dataset for a vocab size of 16k.
- `deberta-small-v3` trained on mixture of MAESTRO and 10M tokens for 5 epochs.
- Model continues training for 50 epochs on 10M tokens with sequence length of 128.
- Model is trained for 2 epochs with targeted linguistic masking with sequence length of 512.


  This README will be updated with more details soon.