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language: dv
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# byt5-base-dv
Pretrained from scratch on Dhivei (language of the Maldives)
with ByT5, Google's new byte-level tokenizer strategy.
**Use byt5-dv for now; this is less accurate**
Corpus: Sofwath's Dhivehi corpus https://github.com/Sofwath/DhivehiDatasets
Pretraining Notebook:
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ERIZ1PyHn-yN_jo7dTQeODn22vrt-d1d?usp=sharing
## Fine-tuning Demo
On Dhivehi news classification task
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/11u5SafR4bKICmArgDl6KQ9vqfYtDpyWp?usp=sharing
## Issues
There was an issue with the vocabulary size, final layer, and/or accuracy on fine-tuning.