---
license: llama2
datasets:
- HiTZ/euscrawl
language:
- eu
- en
metrics:
- accuracy
- f1
- perplexity
pipeline_tag: text-generation
---

# **Model Card for Latxa 70b**

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  <img src="https://github.com/hitz-zentroa/latxa/blob/b9aa705f60ee2cc03c9ed62fda82a685abb31b07/assets/latxa_round.png?raw=true" style="height: 350px;">
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<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold">IMPORTANT:</span> This model is outdated and made available publicly for reproducibility purposes only. Please utilize the most recent version found in [our HuggingFace collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/HiTZ/latxa-65a697e6838b3acc53677304).

Latxa is a collection of foundation models specifically tuned for Basque. Based on Meta’s LLaMA 2 model family, these models were further trained with Euscrawl, a highly curated Basque corpora ([Artetxe et al., 2022](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.499/)). Ranging from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters, these models are currently the biggest and best-performing LLMs built for Basque. This is the 70b repository, links to other models can be found in the [Latxa Collection](https://huggingface.co/collections/HiTZ/latxa-65a697e6838b3acc53677304).

Read more about Latxa in our [website](https://www.hitz.eus/en/node/340) or in [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/presenting-latxa-largest-language-model-built-basque-hitz-zentroa-63qdf)!


# **Model Details**


## **Model Description**

Latxa is a family of Large Language Models (LLM) based on Meta’s [LLaMA models](https://huggingface.co/meta-llama). Current LLMs exhibit incredible performance for high-resource languages such as English, but, in the case of Basque and other low-resource languages, their performance is close to a random guesser. These limitations widen the gap between high- and low-resource languages when it comes to digital development. We present Latxa to overcome these limitations and promote the development of LLM-based technology and research for the Basque language. Latxa models follow the same architecture as their original counterparts and were further trained in Euscrawl v1 ([Artetxe et al., 2022](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.499/)), a high-quality Basque corpora. 

The models are released in three sizes: 7B, 13B and 70B.



* **Developed by:** HiTZ Research Center & IXA Research group (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU)
* **Model type:** Language model
* **Language(s) (NLP):** en, eu
* **License:** llama2
* **Parent Model:** meta-llama/Llama-2-70b
* **Contact:** hitz@ehu.eus 


## **Getting started**

Use the code below to get started with the model.

```python

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model=”HiTZ/latxa-70b-v1”)

text = "Euskara adimen artifizialera iritsi da!"

pipe(text, max_new_tokens=50, num_beams=5)

>> [
 {
  'generated_text': 'Euskara adimen artifizialera iritsi da!\nEuskararen eta adimen artifizialaren arteko harremana aspaldikoa da,'
  ' baina azken urteotan aurrerapauso handiak eman dira arlo horretan'
 }
]

```


# **Uses**

Latxa models are intended to be used with Basque data; for any other language the performance is not guaranteed. Same as the original, Latxa inherits the [LLaMA-2 License](https://ai.meta.com/llama/license/) which allows for commercial and research use. 


## **Direct Use**

Latxa family models are pre-trained LLMs without any task-specific or instruction fine-tuning. That is, the model can either be prompted to perform a specific task or further fine-tuned for specific use cases.


## **Out-of-Scope Use**

The model was not fine-tuned to follow instructions or to work as a chat assistant, therefore, this kind of usage is not tested nor recommended. 


# **Bias, Risks, and Limitations**

In an effort to alleviate the potentially disturbing or harmful content, Latxa has been trained on carefully selected and processed data which comes mainly from local media, national/regional newspapers, encyclopedias and blogs (see Euscrawl below). Still, the model is based on LLaMA models and can potentially carry the same bias, risk and limitations. 

Please see the LLaMA’s _Ethical Considerations and Limitations _for further information.


# **Training Details**


## **Training Data**

The models were trained on EusCrawl v1, a high-quality corpus for Basque comprising 1.72M documents, 288M words, totalling 2.1GiB of uncompressed text. EusCrawl was built using ad-hoc scrapers to extract text from 33 Basque websites with high-quality content, resulting in cleaner text compared to general-purpose approaches.	

See more details in the [EusCrawl](https://huggingface.co/datasets/HiTZ/euscrawl) dataset card. 

Additionally, 100K documents of English data randomly selected from the [Pile](https://huggingface.co/datasets/EleutherAI/pile) dataset were also included to avoid catastrophic forgetting.


## **Training Procedure**

The models were trained using the GPT-Neox library on the HPC CINECA computing cluster. All the models were approximately trained with an effective batch size of 2M tokens for 1000 to 2000 steps. 


<table>
  <tr>
   <td>Model
   </td>
   <td>Steps
   </td>
   <td>Sequence length
   </td>
   <td>Effective Batch size
   </td>
   <td>Total tokens
   </td>
   <td>GPU hours
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Latxa 7B
   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
2000</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
4096</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
2M tokens/step</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
4B</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
359.2h</p>

   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Latxa 13B
   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
1000</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
4096</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
2M tokens/step</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
2B</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
468.8h</p>

   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Latxa 70B
   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
1680</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
4096</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
2M tokens/step</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
3.4B</p>

   </td>
   <td><p style="text-align: right">
*6475.52h</p>

   </td>
  </tr>
</table>


* indicates the time for the entire training process (2000 steps), however the weights of the step 1680 are shared as it is the best checkpoint according to validation loss.


# **Evaluation**

We evaluated the models on zero-shot and few-shot settings on generative, multiple-choice and classification tasks. We used the basque partitions of each dataset.


## **Testing Data, Factors & Metrics**


### **Testing Data**



* **Belebele** ([Bandarkar et al.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16884)): Belebele is a multiple-choice machine reading comprehension (MRC) dataset spanning 122 language variants. We evaluated the model in a 5-shot fashion.
    * Data card: [https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/belebele](https://huggingface.co/datasets/facebook/belebele)
* **X-StoryCloze** ([Lin et al.](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10668)): XStoryCloze consists of the professionally translated version of the English StoryCloze dataset to 10 non-English languages. Story Cloze is a commonsense reasoning dataset which consists of choosing the correct ending to a four-sentence story. We evaluated the model in a 0-shot fashion.
    * Data card: [https://huggingface.co/datasets/juletxara/xstory_cloze](https://huggingface.co/datasets/juletxara/xstory_cloze)
* **BasqueGLUE** ([Urbizu et al.](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.172.pdf)): BasqueGLUE is a NLU benchmark for Basque. We evaluated the model in a 5-shot fashion on the following tasks:
    * Data card:[ https://huggingface.co/datasets/orai-nlp/basqueGLUE](https://huggingface.co/datasets/orai-nlp/basqueGLUE).
    * Tasks:
        * **BEC2016eu**: Sentiment analysis on tweets about the 2016 Basque elections campaign.
        * **VaxxStance**: Stance detection on tweets around the anti-vaccine movement.
        * **BTHCv2**: Topic classification of news extracts with 12 categories.
        * **EpecKorrefBin**: Correference detection task similar to WSC.
        * **QNLIeu**: Q&A NLI built from the Basque Wikipedia.
        * **WiCeu**: Basque Word-in-Context task.


### **Metrics**



* **Accuracy**: Belebele, X-StoryCloze, EpecKorrefBin, QNLI-eu, and, WiC-eu
* **Micro F1**: BEC2016-eu and BHTCv2
* **Macro F1**: VaxxStance (favor & against)


## **Results**

The model was evaluated using the LM Evaluation harness library from Eleuther AI.
In order to reproduce our results please follow the instructions in Latxa's [Github repository](https://github.com/hitz-zentroa/latxa?tab=readme-ov-file#evaluation).


<table>
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Model</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Belebele</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>X-StoryCloze</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>BEC</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Vaxx</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>BHTC</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>coref</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>QNLI</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>WiC</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>Average</strong>
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>Random
   </td>
   <td>25.00
   </td>
   <td>50.00
   </td>
   <td>33.33
   </td>
   <td>33.33
   </td>
   <td>8.33
   </td>
   <td>50.00
   </td>
   <td>50.00
   </td>
   <td>50.00
   </td>
   <td>37.50
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>LLaMA 2 7B
   </td>
   <td>26.22
   </td>
   <td>50.43
   </td>
   <td>41.63
   </td>
   <td>18.60
   </td>
   <td>20.06
   </td>
   <td>50.94
   </td>
   <td>48.32
   </td>
   <td>49.64
   </td>
   <td>38.23
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>LLaMA 2 13B
   </td>
   <td>32.00
   </td>
   <td>50.63
   </td>
   <td>41.09
   </td>
   <td>18.25
   </td>
   <td>27.35
   </td>
   <td>49.23
   </td>
   <td>48.74
   </td>
   <td>49.21
   </td>
   <td>39.56
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>LLaMA 2 70B
   </td>
   <td>33.56
   </td>
   <td>51.62
   </td>
   <td>47.47
   </td>
   <td>21.01
   </td>
   <td>31.01
   </td>
   <td>52.98
   </td>
   <td>51.26
   </td>
   <td>51.57
   </td>
   <td>42.56
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>BLOOM 7B
   </td>
   <td>27.00
   </td>
   <td>57.18
   </td>
   <td>37.94
   </td>
   <td>20.72
   </td>
   <td>39.10
   </td>
   <td>48.21
   </td>
   <td>47.48
   </td>
   <td>47.57
   </td>
   <td>40.65
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>XGLM 7B
   </td>
   <td>23.88
   </td>
   <td>57.71
   </td>
   <td>39.94
   </td>
   <td>21.58
   </td>
   <td>36.73
   </td>
   <td>50.94
   </td>
   <td>50.42
   </td>
   <td>49.21
   </td>
   <td>41.30
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Latxa 7B</strong>
   </td>
   <td>35.67
   </td>
   <td>63.13
   </td>
   <td>55.61
   </td>
   <td>45.93
   </td>
   <td>44.44
   </td>
   <td>50.43
   </td>
   <td>55.04
   </td>
   <td>50.14
   </td>
   <td>50.05
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Latxa 13B</strong>
   </td>
   <td>53.56
   </td>
   <td>65.85
   </td>
   <td>53.23
   </td>
   <td>48.66
   </td>
   <td><strong>53.61</strong>
   </td>
   <td>62.52
   </td>
   <td>57.14
   </td>
   <td>54.21
   </td>
   <td>56.10
   </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td><strong>Latxa 70B</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>71.78</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>67.57</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>63.52</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>48.95</strong>
   </td>
   <td>49.51
   </td>
   <td><strong>79.90</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>58.82</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>55.50</strong>
   </td>
   <td><strong>61.94</strong>
   </td>
  </tr>
</table>



# **Environmental Impact**

Carbon emissions are estimated using the[ Machine Learning Impact calculator](https://mlco2.github.io/impact#compute) presented in[ Lacoste et al. (2019)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09700).



* **Hardware Type:** HPC Cluster, 4x A100 64Gb nodes
* **Hours used:** 359.2h + 468.8h + 6475.52h = 7303.52h
* **Compute cluster:** CINECA HPC
* **Compute Region:** Italy
* **Carbon Emitted:** 673.75kg CO<sub>2</sub> eq


# **Acknowledgements**

This work has been partially supported by the Basque Government (IKER-GAITU project). The models were trained on the Leonardo supercomputer at CINECA under the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, project EHPC-EXT-2023E01-013.