readme: ---
  language:
  - ru
  - en
  - multilingual
  license: mit
  tags:
  - russian
  ---
  This is a smaller version of the [google/mt5-base](https://huggingface.co/google/mt5-base) model with only Russian and some English embeddings left. 
  
  * The original model has 582M parameters, with 384M of them being input and output embeddings. 
  * After shrinking the `sentencepiece` vocabulary from 250K to 30K (top 10K English and top 20K Russian tokens) the number of model parameters reduced to 244M parameters, and model size reduced from 2.2GB to 0.9GB - 42% of the original one.
  
  The creation of this model is described in the post [How to adapt a multilingual T5 model for a single language](https://cointegrated.medium.com/how-to-adapt-a-multilingual-t5-model-for-a-single-language-b9f94f3d9c90) along with the source code.
  