The developers of the Text-To-Text Transfer Transformer (T5) write:

With T5, we propose reframing all NLP tasks into a unified text-to-text-format where the input and output are always text strings, in contrast to BERT-style models that can only output either a class label or a span of the input. Our text-to-text framework allows us to use the same model, loss function, and hyperparameters on any NLP task.

T5-Base is the checkpoint with 220 million parameters.

The model is pre-trained on the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus (C4), which was developed and released in the context of the same research paper as T5.

The model was pre-trained on a on a multi-task mixture of unsupervised and supervised tasks. Thereby, the following datasets were being used for:

• C4
• Wiki-DPR

• Sentence acceptability judgment
  • CoLA Warstadt et al., 2018
• Sentiment analysis
  • SST-2 Socher et al., 2013
• Paraphrasing/sentence similarity
  • MRPC Dolan and Brockett, 2005
  • STS-B Ceret al., 2017
  • QQP Iyer et al., 2017
• Natural language inference
  • MNLI Williams et al., 2017
  • QNLI Rajpurkar et al.,2016
  • RTE Dagan et al., 2005
  • CB De Marneff et al., 2019
• Sentence completion
  • COPA Roemmele et al., 2011
• Word sense disambiguation
  • WIC Pilehvar and Camacho-Collados, 2018
• Question answering
  • MultiRC Khashabi et al., 2018
  • ReCoRD Zhang et al., 2018
  • BoolQ Clark et al., 2019

In their abstract, the model developers write:

In this paper, we explore the landscape of transfer learning techniques for NLP by introducing a unified framework that converts every language problem into a text-to-text format. Our systematic study compares pre-training objectives, architectures, unlabeled datasets, transfer approaches, and other factors on dozens of language understanding tasks.

The framework introduced, the T5 framework, involves a training procedure that brings together the approaches studied in the paper. See the research paper for further details.

For full results for T5-Base, see the research paper, Table 14.

The developers evaluated the model on 24 tasks, see the research paper for full details.

{
    "input_data": [
        "translate English to French: Life is so beautiful, once you learn how to live with it",
        "translate English to German: Berlin is the capital of Germany"
    ]
}

[
  "La vie est si belle, une fois que vous apprenez à la vivre",
  "Berlin ist die Hauptstadt Deutschlands"
]

Version: 17

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View in Studio: https://ml.azure.com/registries/azureml/models/t5-base/version/17

License: apache-2.0

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SHA: fe6d9bf207cd3337512ca838a8b453f87a9178ef

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finetuning-tasks: summarization, text-classification, translation

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