| # Bangla-Electra | |
| This is a second attempt at a Bangla/Bengali language model trained with | |
| Google Research's [ELECTRA](https://github.com/google-research/electra). | |
| Tokenization and pre-training CoLab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1gpwHvXAnNQaqcu-YNx1kafEVxz07g2jL | |
| V1 - 120,000 steps | |
| V2 - 190,000 steps | |
| ## Benchmarks | |
| Classification with SimpleTransformers: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1vltPI81atzRvlALv4eCvEB0KdFoEaCOb | |
| On Soham Chatterjee's [news classification task](https://github.com/soham96/Bangla2Vec): | |
| (Random: 16.7%, mBERT: 72.3%, Bangla-Electra: 82.3%) | |
| Similar to mBERT on some tasks and configurations described in https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.07807 | |
| ## Corpus | |
| Trained on a web crawl from https://oscar-corpus.com/ (deduped version, 5.8GB) and 1 July 2020 dump of bn.wikipedia.org (414MB) | |
| ## Vocabulary | |
| Included as vocab.txt in the upload - vocab_size is 29898 | |