readme: ---
  language: fr
  license: cc-by-sa-4.0
  datasets:
  - wikipedia
  - cc100
  widget:
  - text: "Je vais à la gare, et"
  - text: "J'aime le café, donc"
  - text: "Nous avons parlé"
  - text: "Je m'appelle"
  ---
  
  ## GPT2 French base model (Uncased)
  
  ### Prerequisites
  
  transformers==4.19.2
  
  ### Model architecture
  
  This model uses GPT2 base setttings except vocabulary size.
  
  ### Tokenizer
  
  Using BPE tokenizer with vocabulary size 50,000.
  
  ### Training Data 
  
  * [wiki40b/fr](https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/wiki40b#wiki40bfr) (French Wikipedia)
  * Subset of [CC-100/fr](https://data.statmt.org/cc-100/) : Monolingual Datasets from Web Crawl Data
  
  ### Usage
  
  ```python
  from transformers import pipeline
  
  generator = pipeline('text-generation', model='ClassCat/gpt2-base-french')
  generator("Je vais à la", max_length=50, num_return_sequences=5)
  ```