---
language:
- nl
inference: false
tags:
- BERT
- HPLT
- encoder
license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- HPLT/hplt_monolingual_v1_2
---

# HPLT Bert for Dutch

<img src="https://hplt-project.org/_next/static/media/logo-hplt.d5e16ca5.svg" width=12.5%>

This is one of the encoder-only monolingual language models trained as a first release by the [HPLT project](https://hplt-project.org/).
It is a so called masked language models. In particular, we used the modification of the classic BERT model named [LTG-BERT](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-eacl.146/).

A monolingual LTG-BERT model is trained for every major language in the [HPLT 1.2 data release](https://hplt-project.org/datasets/v1.2) (*75* models total).

All the HPLT encoder-only models use the same hyper-parameters, roughly following the BERT-base setup:
- hidden size: 768
- attention heads: 12
- layers: 12
- vocabulary size: 32768

Every model uses its own tokenizer trained on language-specific HPLT data. 
See sizes of the training corpora, evaluation results and more in our [language model training report](https://hplt-project.org/HPLT_D4_1___First_language_models_trained.pdf).

[The training code](https://github.com/hplt-project/HPLT-WP4).

[The training statistics of all 75 runs](https://api.wandb.ai/links/ltg/kduj7mjn)

## Example usage

This model currently needs a custom wrapper from `modeling_ltgbert.py`, you should therefore load the model with `trust_remote_code=True`.

```python
import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForMaskedLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("HPLT/hplt_bert_base_en")
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained("HPLT/hplt_bert_base_en", trust_remote_code=True)

mask_id = tokenizer.convert_tokens_to_ids("[MASK]")
input_text = tokenizer("It's a beautiful[MASK].", return_tensors="pt")
output_p = model(**input_text)
output_text = torch.where(input_text.input_ids == mask_id, output_p.logits.argmax(-1), input_text.input_ids)

# should output: '[CLS] It's a beautiful place.[SEP]'
print(tokenizer.decode(output_text[0].tolist()))
```

The following classes are currently implemented: `AutoModel`, `AutoModelMaskedLM`, `AutoModelForSequenceClassification`, `AutoModelForTokenClassification`, `AutoModelForQuestionAnswering` and `AutoModeltForMultipleChoice`.

## Cite us

```bibtex
@misc{degibert2024new,
      title={A New Massive Multilingual Dataset for High-Performance Language Technologies}, 
      author={Ona de Gibert and Graeme Nail and Nikolay Arefyev and Marta Bañón and Jelmer van der Linde and Shaoxiong Ji and Jaume Zaragoza-Bernabeu and Mikko Aulamo and Gema Ramírez-Sánchez and Andrey Kutuzov and Sampo Pyysalo and Stephan Oepen and Jörg Tiedemann},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2403.14009},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```