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gpt2-small-dutch

Available as managed deployment LLMs GroNLP Text gen 1 variants 165k dl/mo

gpt2-small-dutch is an open-weight language model from GroNLP. AxForge deploys and operates it for you on dedicated EU-owned hardware — with the licence handled where one is required.

Available as managed deployment — configured and operated for you on dedicated EU hardware, quoted per deployment.

What it is

Released byGroNLP
TypeLanguage models
TaskText gen
Parameters (lead)129M
Context1k tokens
Runs withtransformers
Released2022-03-02
Popularity165k downloads / month
LicenceUnknown

About

What gpt2-small-dutch is

Wietse de VriesMalvina Nissim

Model description

This model is based on the small OpenAI GPT-2 (gpt2) model.

For details, check out our paper on arXiv and the code on Github.

Read the full model card

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How to use

from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="GroNLP/gpt2-small-dutch")
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel, TFAutoModel

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("GroNLP/gpt2-small-dutch")
model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("GroNLP/gpt2-small-dutch")  # PyTorch
model = TFAutoModel.from_pretrained("GroNLP/gpt2-small-dutch")  # Tensorflow

BibTeX entry

@misc{devries2020good,
      title={As good as new. How to successfully recycle English GPT-2 to make models for other languages},
      author={Wietse de Vries and Malvina Nissim},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2012.05628},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

From the published model card. Full card on the HuggingFace links in the sidebar.

Using it via the API

Call it like any OpenAI endpoint

Once AxForge deploys gpt2-small-dutch for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (gpt2-small-dutch below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)

$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"gpt2-small-dutch","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'

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