Cendol: Open Instruction-tuned Generative Large Language Models for Indonesian Languages

Cendol is an open-source collection of fine-tuned generative large language models in Indonesian languages covering decoder-only and encoder-decoder transformer model architectures ranging in scale from 300 million to 13 billion parameters.

This is the repository for the 580M Cendol mT5-base Instruct model. Links to other models can be found below.

Model Details

Note: Use of Cendol is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license

Overview

IndoNLP developed and publicly released the Cendol family of large language models (LLMs), a collection of pretrained and fine-tuned generative text models ranging in scale from 560 million to 13 billion parameters.

Cendol models cover two instruction-tuned versions:

1. Cendol-Instruct that is instruction-tuned on tasks-specific NLP data such as sentiment analysis, topic modeling, machine translation, summarization, question answering, paraphrasing, etc
2. Cendol-Chat that is continuously instruction-tuned from Cendol-Instruct on general knowledge and human-centric prompts.

Both Cendol-Instruct and Cendol-Chat are designed for a single-turn conversation. Cendol outperforms open-source multilingual and region-specific LLMs on most benchmarks we tested by a huge margin, with the smaller version (<1B parameters) of Cendol being highly competitive with other LLMs with 7B parameters.

Model Developers: IndoNLP

Variations

Cendol comes from 2 base models (mT5 and LLaMA-2) each with a range of parameter sizes. mT5-based Cendol comes with 300M (mT5-small), 580M (mT5-base), 1.2B (mT5-large), 3.7B (mT5-XL), and 13B (mT5-XXL) models, while LLaMA-2-based Cendol comes with 7B (LLaMA2-7B) and 13B (LLaMA2-13B) models. Both variants come with Cendol-Instruct and Cendol-Chat variations. All 13B parameter models are tuned with LoRA, while others are fully fine-tuned.

In our paper, we showcase that adapting region-specific LLMs using LoRA is ineffective and inefficient, i.e., the 13B (mT5-XXL) Cendol models perform slightly worse than the 1.2B (mT5-large) Cendol models, while having 3x slower training time and 4x slower inference time. As an alternative to LoRA, we showcase the benefits of vocabulary substitution as an effective and efficient strategy for region-specific adaptation, where we improve the efficiency by 11.50% and 18.71% for training and inference times, respectively. In terms of evaluation performance, we also showcase that the model performs on par with the Cendol model trained with the original vocabulary. We also release the Indonesian vocabulary-adapted model denoted as Indonesian-Vocab Instruct.

Input-Output: Models input and output are text only.

Model Architecture

Model Dates Cendol was trained between October 2023 and January 2024.

License Use of Cendol is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license

Research Paper "Cendol: Open Instruction-tuned Generative Large Language Models for Indonesian Languages"

Intended Use

Intended Use Cases Cendol is intended for research use especially on Indonesian languages. Cendol models are intended for a single turn instruction, with Cendol-Instruct models can be used for task-specific instruction, while Cendol-Chat models can be used for general knowledge instruction.

Out-of-scope Uses Use in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations (including trade compliance laws). Use in languages other than English and Indonesian languages. Use in any other way that is prohibited by the Acceptable Use Policy and Licensing Agreement for Cendol.

Evaluation Results

In this section, we report the results for the Cendol models on large-scale NLU and NLG benchmarks. For all the evaluations, we use our internal evaluations library.

NLU Performance

NLG Performance

Human evaluation

Ethical Considerations and Limitations

Cendol is a new technology that carries risks with its use. Testing conducted to date has been in Indonesian, and has not covered, nor could it cover all scenarios. For these reasons, as with all LLMs, Cendol’s potential outputs cannot be predicted in advance, and the model may in some instances produce inaccurate, biased or other objectionable responses to user prompts. Therefore, before deploying any applications of Cendol, developers should perform safety testing and tuning tailored to their specific applications of the model.

Citation

If you are using any resources including Cendol models, code, or data, please cite the following articles:

@misc{cahyawijaya-etal-2024-cendol,
      title={Cendol: Open Instruction-tuned Generative Large Language Models for Indonesian Languages}, 
      author={Samuel Cahyawijaya and Holy Lovenia and Fajri Koto and Rifki Afina Putri and Emmanuel Dave and Jhonson Lee and Nuur Shadieq and Wawan Cenggoro and Salsabil Maulana Akbar and Muhammad Ihza Mahendra and Dea Annisayanti Putri and Bryan Wilie and Genta Indra Winata and Alham Fikri Aji and Ayu Purwarianti and Pascale Fung},
      year={2024},
      eprint={2404.06138},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

@inproceedings{cahyawijaya-etal-2023-nusacrowd,
    title = "{N}usa{C}rowd: Open Source Initiative for {I}ndonesian {NLP} Resources",
    author = "Cahyawijaya, Samuel  and
      Lovenia, Holy  and
      Aji, Alham Fikri  and
      Winata, Genta  and
      Wilie, Bryan  and
      Koto, Fajri  and
      Mahendra, Rahmad  and
      Wibisono, Christian  and
      Romadhony, Ade  and
      Vincentio, Karissa  and
      Santoso, Jennifer  and
      Moeljadi, David  and
      Wirawan, Cahya  and
      Hudi, Frederikus  and
      Wicaksono, Muhammad Satrio  and
      Parmonangan, Ivan  and
      Alfina, Ika  and
      Putra, Ilham Firdausi  and
      Rahmadani, Samsul  and
      Oenang, Yulianti  and
      Septiandri, Ali  and
      Jaya, James  and
      Dhole, Kaustubh  and
      Suryani, Arie  and
      Putri, Rifki Afina  and
      Su, Dan  and
      Stevens, Keith  and
      Nityasya, Made Nindyatama  and
      Adilazuarda, Muhammad  and
      Hadiwijaya, Ryan  and
      Diandaru, Ryandito  and
      Yu, Tiezheng  and
      Ghifari, Vito  and
      Dai, Wenliang  and
      Xu, Yan  and
      Damapuspita, Dyah  and
      Wibowo, Haryo  and
      Tho, Cuk  and
      Karo Karo, Ichwanul  and
      Fatyanosa, Tirana  and
      Ji, Ziwei  and
      Neubig, Graham  and
      Baldwin, Timothy  and
      Ruder, Sebastian  and
      Fung, Pascale  and
      Sujaini, Herry  and
      Sakti, Sakriani  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu",
    editor = "Rogers, Anna  and
      Boyd-Graber, Jordan  and
      Okazaki, Naoaki",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.868",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.868",
    pages = "13745--13818"
}

Additionally, if you are inspired by our work on region-specific language models especially for Indonesian and its local languages, please also consider citing the following articles:

@inproceedings{cahyawijaya-etal-2023-nusawrites,
    title = "{N}usa{W}rites: Constructing High-Quality Corpora for Underrepresented and Extremely Low-Resource Languages",
    author = "Cahyawijaya, Samuel  and
      Lovenia, Holy  and
      Koto, Fajri  and
      Adhista, Dea  and
      Dave, Emmanuel  and
      Oktavianti, Sarah  and
      Akbar, Salsabil  and
      Lee, Jhonson  and
      Shadieq, Nuur  and
      Cenggoro, Tjeng Wawan  and
      Linuwih, Hanung  and
      Wilie, Bryan  and
      Muridan, Galih  and
      Winata, Genta  and
      Moeljadi, David  and
      Aji, Alham Fikri  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Fung, Pascale",
    editor = "Park, Jong C.  and
      Arase, Yuki  and
      Hu, Baotian  and
      Lu, Wei  and
      Wijaya, Derry  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Krisnadhi, Adila Alfa",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Nusa Dua, Bali",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.ijcnlp-main.60",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.ijcnlp-main.60",
    pages = "921--945"
}

@inproceedings{winata-etal-2023-nusax,
    title = "{N}usa{X}: Multilingual Parallel Sentiment Dataset for 10 {I}ndonesian Local Languages",
    author = "Winata, Genta Indra  and
      Aji, Alham Fikri  and
      Cahyawijaya, Samuel  and
      Mahendra, Rahmad  and
      Koto, Fajri  and
      Romadhony, Ade  and
      Kurniawan, Kemal  and
      Moeljadi, David  and
      Prasojo, Radityo Eko  and
      Fung, Pascale  and
      Baldwin, Timothy  and
      Lau, Jey Han  and
      Sennrich, Rico  and
      Ruder, Sebastian",
    editor = "Vlachos, Andreas  and
      Augenstein, Isabelle",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = may,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Dubrovnik, Croatia",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.57",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.eacl-main.57",
    pages = "815--834"
}

@inproceedings{aji-etal-2022-one,
    title = "One Country, 700+ Languages: {NLP} Challenges for Underrepresented Languages and Dialects in {I}ndonesia",
    author = "Aji, Alham Fikri  and
      Winata, Genta Indra  and
      Koto, Fajri  and
      Cahyawijaya, Samuel  and
      Romadhony, Ade  and
      Mahendra, Rahmad  and
      Kurniawan, Kemal  and
      Moeljadi, David  and
      Prasojo, Radityo Eko  and
      Baldwin, Timothy  and
      Lau, Jey Han  and
      Ruder, Sebastian",
    editor = "Muresan, Smaranda  and
      Nakov, Preslav  and
      Villavicencio, Aline",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = may,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Dublin, Ireland",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.500",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.500",
    pages = "7226--7249"
}

@inproceedings{cahyawijaya-etal-2021-indonlg,
    title = "{I}ndo{NLG}: Benchmark and Resources for Evaluating {I}ndonesian Natural Language Generation",
    author = "Cahyawijaya, Samuel  and
      Winata, Genta Indra  and
      Wilie, Bryan  and
      Vincentio, Karissa  and
      Li, Xiaohong  and
      Kuncoro, Adhiguna  and
      Ruder, Sebastian  and
      Lim, Zhi Yuan  and
      Bahar, Syafri  and
      Khodra, Masayu  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Fung, Pascale",
    editor = "Moens, Marie-Francine  and
      Huang, Xuanjing  and
      Specia, Lucia  and
      Yih, Scott Wen-tau",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.699",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.699",
    pages = "8875--8898"
}

@inproceedings{wilie-etal-2020-indonlu,
    title = "{I}ndo{NLU}: Benchmark and Resources for Evaluating {I}ndonesian Natural Language Understanding",
    author = "Wilie, Bryan  and
      Vincentio, Karissa  and
      Winata, Genta Indra  and
      Cahyawijaya, Samuel  and
      Li, Xiaohong  and
      Lim, Zhi Yuan  and
      Soleman, Sidik  and
      Mahendra, Rahmad  and
      Fung, Pascale  and
      Bahar, Syafri  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu",
    editor = "Wong, Kam-Fai  and
      Knight, Kevin  and
      Wu, Hua",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 10th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Suzhou, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.aacl-main.85",
    pages = "843--857"
}