llama-2-7b-chat-norwegian-sum

A QLoRA fine-tune of RuterNorway/Llama-2-7b-chat-norwegian for abstractive summarization of Norwegian text. Given structured sentiment snippets extracted from book reviews, the model produces a fluent 3-5 sentence Norwegian prose summary of reader reception.

Model Details

Model Description

• Developed by: GloriaABK1
• Model type: Causal LM with LoRA adapters (QLoRA)
• Language(s): Norwegian (Bokmål + Nynorsk)
• License: Same as base model (RuterNorway/Llama-2-7b-chat-norwegian); subject to the Llama 2 Community License
• Finetuned from: RuterNorway/Llama-2-7b-chat-norwegian

Model Sources

• Repository: https://github.com/GloriaABK/norwegian-book-review-summarization

Uses

Direct Use

Generate abstractive summaries of Norwegian text. The model expects the prompt format below and outputs a short prose paragraph in Norwegian.

Downstream Use

Built as part of an end-to-end Norwegian book review summarization pipeline:

1. 218 k reviews from Bokelskere.no are preprocessed and filtered to the 40 most-reviewed books
2. ltg/norbert3-large_TSA tags positive and negative sentiment spans per review
3. Spans are aggregated into a structured input string per book
4. This model generates a final prose summary

The adapter can also be loaded on top of the base model for general Norwegian summarization tasks.

Out-of-Scope Use

• Non-Norwegian text (model is not instruction-tuned for multilingual use)
• Long-document summarization (max input is 600 tokens)
• Factual question answering or retrieval

How to Get Started with the Model

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM, BitsAndBytesConfig
import torch

bnb_config = BitsAndBytesConfig(
 load_in_4bit=True,
 bnb_4bit_quant_type="nf4",
 bnb_4bit_compute_dtype=torch.float16,
 llm_int8_threshold=6.0,
)

repo = "GloriaABK1/llama-2-7b-chat-norwegian-sum"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
 repo,
 quantization_config=bnb_config,
 device_map="auto",
 trust_remote_code=True,
 low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
model.config.use_cache = False
model.eval()

def summarize(text: str) -> str:
 prompt = (
 "### Instruksjon:\n"
 "Du er en bokanmeldelsessammendragsgenerator. Gjor om folgende "
 "Leserne likte- og Leserne mislikte-tagger til et 3-5 setningers "
 "sammendrag pa norsk.\n\n"
 f"### Inndata:\n{text}\n\n### Sammendrag:"
 )
 inputs = tokenizer(
 prompt, return_tensors="pt", truncation=True, max_length=600
 ).to(model.device)
 with torch.inference_mode():
 out = model.generate(
 **inputs,
 max_new_tokens=120,
 num_beams=4,
 length_penalty=3.0,
 no_repeat_ngram_size=3,
 early_stopping=True,
 use_cache=False,
 )
 return tokenizer.decode(out[0], skip_special_tokens=True).split("### Sammendrag:")[-1].strip()

text = "Leserne likte: historien, karakterene, språket. Leserne mislikte: slutten, tempoet."
print(summarize(text))

Training Details

Training Data

Fine-tuned on SamiaT/NorSumm, a Norwegian summarization dataset with both Bokmål (nb) and Nynorsk (nn) subsets. Both subsets were merged and shuffled before training. The summaries column was exploded so each (article, summary) pair forms its own training row.

Inputs were tokenized with AutoTokenizer, truncated to 512 tokens; summaries truncated to 128 tokens.

Training Procedure

Method: QLoRA - 4-bit quantized base model with LoRA adapters trained in bf16.

Training Hyperparameters

Speeds, Sizes, Times

• Hardware: Google Colab A100 (40 GB)
• Adapter size: ~849 MB
• Training time: approximately 1-2 hours on A100

Evaluation

Testing Data and Metrics

Evaluated on the NorSumm test split (198 examples) using ROUGE-L F1, computed with the evaluate library. Early stopping during training monitored ROUGE-L on the 36-example validation set.

The model was also applied to the Bokelskere.no book review corpus and ROUGE-L was computed against aggregated review text as a pseudo-reference, providing a domain-specific quality signal.

Results

Bias, Risks, and Limitations

• The base model RuterNorway/Llama-2-7b-chat-norwegian is itself a fine-tune of Meta's Llama-2, which was primarily trained on English data. Norwegian cultural and linguistic nuances may therefore be underrepresented.
• The NorSumm training set is relatively small (144 training examples), which limits generalization and makes the model sensitive to prompt format.
• ROUGE-L against pseudo-references rewards extractive overlap; the model may copy source phrases rather than produce fully abstractive summaries.
• Use of this model is subject to Meta's Llama 2 Community License, which restricts commercial use above certain traffic thresholds.
• The model is not suitable for inference on personally identifiable information without appropriate data governance controls and on-premise deployment.

Recommendations

Use this model as part of a pipeline where inputs are pre-processed and validated. Evaluate outputs with human review before any production deployment. Ensure compliance with the Llama 2 Community License for any commercial application.

Environmental Impact

• Hardware type: NVIDIA A100 40 GB
• Cloud provider: Google (Colab)
• Compute region: Unknown
• Hours used: approximately 1-2
• Carbon emissions can be estimated using the ML Impact Calculator.

Technical Specifications

Model Architecture and Objective

Causal language model (Llama-2 architecture) with LoRA adapters on all attention projection layers and MLP gate/up/down projections plus the LM head. Base weights are frozen and loaded in 4-bit NF4 quantization via bitsandbytes. Only the LoRA adapter weights are trained.

Objective: Next-token prediction on (prompt + summary) sequences (SFTTrainer default).

Compute Infrastructure

Hardware

Google Colab A100 (40 GB HBM2)

Software

• transformers (HuggingFace)
• peft (LoRA implementation)
• trl (SFTTrainer)
• bitsandbytes (4-bit quantization)
• evaluate (ROUGE-L metrics)

Base model

RuterNorway/Llama-2-7b-chat-norwegian

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