
M2M100
Overview
The M2M100 model was proposed in Beyond English-Centric Multilingual Machine Translation by Angela Fan, Shruti Bhosale, Holger Schwenk, Zhiyi Ma, Ahmed El-Kishky,
Siddharth Goyal, Mandeep Baines, Onur Celebi, Guillaume Wenzek, Vishrav Chaudhary, Naman Goyal, Tom Birch, Vitaliy
Liptchinsky, Sergey Edunov, Edouard Grave, Michael Auli, Armand Joulin.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
Existing work in translation demonstrated the potential of massively multilingual machine translation by training a
single model able to translate between any pair of languages. However, much of this work is English-Centric by training
only on data which was translated from or to English. While this is supported by large sources of training data, it
does not reflect translation needs worldwide. In this work, we create a true Many-to-Many multilingual translation
model that can translate directly between any pair of 100 languages. We build and open source a training dataset that
covers thousands of language directions with supervised data, created through large-scale mining. Then, we explore how
to effectively increase model capacity through a combination of dense scaling and language-specific sparse parameters
to create high quality models. Our focus on non-English-Centric models brings gains of more than 10 BLEU when directly
translating between non-English directions while performing competitively to the best single systems of WMT. We
open-source our scripts so that others may reproduce the data, evaluation, and final M2M-100 model.
This model was contributed by valhalla.
Usage tips and examples
M2M100 is a multilingual encoder-decoder (seq-to-seq) model primarily intended for translation tasks. As the model is
multilingual it expects the sequences in a certain format: A special language id token is used as prefix in both the
source and target text. The source text format is [lang_code] X [eos], where lang_code is source language
id for source text and target language id for target text, with X being the source or target text.
The [M2M100Tokenizer] depends on sentencepiece so be sure to install it before running the
examples. To install sentencepiece run pip install sentencepiece.
Supervised Training
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from transformers import M2M100Config, M2M100ForConditionalGeneration, M2M100Tokenizer
model = M2M100ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained("facebook/m2m100_418M")
tokenizer = M2M100Tokenizer.from_pretrained("facebook/m2m100_418M", src_lang="en", tgt_lang="fr")
src_text = "Life is like a box of chocolates."
tgt_text = "La vie est comme une boîte de chocolat."
model_inputs = tokenizer(src_text, text_target=tgt_text, return_tensors="pt")
loss = model(**model_inputs).loss  # forward pass