michaelfeil / ct2fast-opus-mt-en-de

# Fast-Inference with Ctranslate2

Speedup inference by 2x-8x using int8 inference in C++

quantized version of Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de

pip install hf-hub-ctranslate2>=1.0.0 ctranslate2>=3.13.0

Converted using

ct2-transformers-converter --model Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de --output_dir /home/michael/tmp-ct2fast-opus-mt-en-de --force --copy_files README.md generation_config.json tokenizer_config.json vocab.json source.spm .gitattributes target.spm --quantization float16

Checkpoint compatible to ctranslate2 and hf-hub-ctranslate2

• compute_type=int8_float16 for device="cuda"
• compute_type=int8 for device="cpu"

from hf_hub_ctranslate2 import TranslatorCT2fromHfHub, GeneratorCT2fromHfHub
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

model_name = "michaelfeil/ct2fast-opus-mt-en-de"
# use either TranslatorCT2fromHfHub or GeneratorCT2fromHfHub here, depending on model.
model = TranslatorCT2fromHfHub(
        # load in int8 on CUDA
        model_name_or_path=model_name, 
        device="cuda",
        compute_type="int8_float16",
        tokenizer=AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de")
)
outputs = model.generate(
    text=["How do you call a fast Flan-ingo?", "User: How are you doing?"],
)
print(outputs)

Licence and other remarks:

This is just a quantized version. Licence conditions are intended to be idential to original huggingface repo.

Original description

opus-mt-en-de

Table of Contents

• Model Details
• Uses
• Risks, Limitations and Biases
• Training
• Evaluation
• Citation Information
• How to Get Started With the Model

Model Details

Model Description:

• Developed by: Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki
• Model Type: Translation
• Language(s):
  • Source Language: English
  • Target Language: German
• License: CC-BY-4.0
• Resources for more information:
  • GitHub Repo

Uses

Direct Use

This model can be used for translation and text-to-text generation.

Risks, Limitations and Biases

CONTENT WARNING: Readers should be aware this section contains content that is disturbing, offensive, and can propagate historical and current stereotypes.

Significant research has explored bias and fairness issues with language models (see, e.g., Sheng et al. (2021) and Bender et al. (2021) ).

Further details about the dataset for this model can be found in the OPUS readme: en-de

Training Data

Preprocessing

• pre-processing: normalization + SentencePiece

• dataset: opus

• download original weights: opus-2020-02-26.zip

• test set translations: opus-2020-02-26.test.txt

Evaluation

Results

• test set scores: opus-2020-02-26.eval.txt

Benchmarks

Citation Information

@InProceedings{TiedemannThottingal:EAMT2020,
  author = {J{\"o}rg Tiedemann and Santhosh Thottingal},
  title = {{OPUS-MT} — {B}uilding open translation services for the {W}orld},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conferenec of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)},
  year = {2020},
  address = {Lisbon, Portugal}
 }

How to Get Started With the Model

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de")

model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained("Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-de")