PAGnol: An Extra-Large French Generative Model

PAGnol is a collection of large French language models, geared towards free-form text generation. With 1.5 billion parameters. PAGnol is based on the GPT architecture. PAGnol is the first language model trained by LightOn, in cooperation with the ALMAnaCH team of Inria.

These model were trained in early 2021 following the then scaling laws and using the exact same training data as the CamemBERT model trained on CCNet. We make it available for reproducibility purposes. They do not constitute the current state of the art nor are they aiming at it.

PAGnol was built by Julien Launay, E.L. Tommasone, Baptiste Pannier, François Boniface, Amélie Chatelain, Iacopo Poli, and Djamé Seddah. It is named after Marcel Pagnol (with PAG standing for pré-apprentissage génératif), and was trained on the IDRIS Jean Zay supercomputer thanks to a GENCI allocation.

The model was converted to the Hugging Face format by Wissam Antoun (ALMAnaCH's PhD student, co-supervised by Benoît Sagot and Djamé Seddah)

Usage

Using PAGnol with Huggingface

from transformers import pipeline

generator = pipeline('text-generation', model='lightonai/pagnol-xl', trust_remote_code=True)

output = generator(
    "Salut PAGnol, comment ça va ?",
    max_length=50,
    do_sample=True,
    temperature=0.7,
)[0]["generated_text"]

>>> "Très bien! Les jours d’été sont là ! Bientôt les premiers festivals..."

License

PAGnol is made available under the MIT licence: by downloading the models available below, you agree with the terms of the MIT licence agreement. Under no circumstances will LightOn and/or Inria be held responsible or liable in any way for any claims, damages, losses, expenses, costs or liabilities whatsoever (including, without limitation, any direct or indirect damages for loss of profits, business interruption or loss of information) resulting or arising directly or indirectly from your use of or inability to use PAGnol.

Available Models

lightonai/pagnol-small: 125M parameters
lightonai/pagnol-medium: 355M parameters
lightonai/pagnol-large: 773M parameters
lightonai/pagnol-xl: 1.5B parameters

Citation

@inproceedings{launay-etal-2022-pagnol,
    title = "{PAG}nol: An Extra-Large {F}rench Generative Model",
    author = "Launay, Julien  and
      Tommasone, E.l.  and
      Pannier, Baptiste  and
      Boniface, Fran{\c{c}}ois  and
      Chatelain, Am{\'e}lie  and
      Cappelli, Alessandro  and
      Poli, Iacopo  and
      Seddah, Djam{\'e}",
    editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta  and
      B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric  and
      Blache, Philippe  and
      Choukri, Khalid  and
      Cieri, Christopher  and
      Declerck, Thierry  and
      Goggi, Sara  and
      Isahara, Hitoshi  and
      Maegaard, Bente  and
      Mariani, Joseph  and
      Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne  and
      Odijk, Jan  and
      Piperidis, Stelios",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference",
    month = jun,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Marseille, France",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.455",
    pages = "4275--4284",
}

Contact

For research enquiries: pagnol@lighton.ai For business enquiries: customer.relations@lighton.ai