pszemraj/pegasus-x-large-book-summary

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Get SparkNotes-esque summaries of arbitrary text! Due to the model size, it's recommended to try it out in Colab (linked above) as the API textbox may time out.

This model is a fine-tuned version of google/pegasus-x-large on the kmfoda/booksum dataset for approx eight epochs.

Training and evaluation data

More information needed

Training procedure

Training hyperparameters

Epochs 1-4

TODO

Epochs 5 & 6

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 6e-05
• train_batch_size: 4
• eval_batch_size: 1
• seed: 42
• distributed_type: multi-GPU
• gradient_accumulation_steps: 32
• total_train_batch_size: 128
• optimizer: ADAN using lucidrains' adan-pytorch with default betas
• lr_scheduler_type: constant_with_warmup
• data type: TF32
• num_epochs: 2

Epochs 7 & 8

• epochs 5 & 6 were trained with 12288 tokens input
• this fixes that with 2 epochs at 16384 tokens input

The following hyperparameters were used during training:

• learning_rate: 0.0004
• train_batch_size: 4
• eval_batch_size: 1
• seed: 42
• distributed_type: multi-GPU
• gradient_accumulation_steps: 16
• total_train_batch_size: 64
• optimizer: ADAN using lucidrains' adan-pytorch with default betas
• lr_scheduler_type: cosine
• lr_scheduler_warmup_ratio: 0.03
• num_epochs: 2

Framework versions

• Transformers 4.22.0
• Pytorch 1.11.0a0+17540c5
• Datasets 2.4.0
• Tokenizers 0.12.1

Base model

google/pegasus-x-large

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