normistral-7b-warm-norsumm

A QLoRA fine-tune of norallm/normistral-7b-warm 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: Gloria Anne Babile Kasangu
• Model type: Causal LM with LoRA adapters (QLoRA)
• Language(s): Norwegian (Bokmål + Nynorsk)
• License: Same as base model (norallm/normistral-7b-warm)
• Finetuned from: norallm/normistral-7b-warm

Model Sources

• Repository: https://github.com/GloriaABK/norwegian-book-review-summarization
• Training notebook: See repository

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

Originally 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,
)

repo = "GloriaABK1/normistral-7b-warm-norsumm"
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
 repo,
 quantization_config=bnb_config,
 device_map="auto",
 low_cpu_mem_usage=True,
)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo)
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)
 inputs.pop("token_type_ids", None)
 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,
 )
 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 validation split was further divided 80/20 to create a dedicated validation set for early stopping.

Each example consists of a Norwegian article and one or more reference summaries. The summaries column was exploded so each (article, summary) pair forms its own training row.

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 using ROUGE-L F1, computed with the evaluate library. Early stopping during training used ROUGE-L on the 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 was pre-trained predominantly on English text; Norwegian cultural and linguistic nuances may be underrepresented compared to a natively trained Norwegian model.
• The NorSumm training set is small (~60 examples before splitting), 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.
• The model is not suitable for privacy-sensitive inference against real user data without on-premise deployment (see Downstream Use above).

Recommendations

Use this model as part of a pipeline where inputs are pre-processed and validated. Do not use for summarizing personally identifiable information without appropriate data governance controls. Evaluate outputs with human review before any production deployment.

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 (Mistral-7B 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; the prompt portion is not masked during loss computation (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

norallm/normistral-7b-warm

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