readme: # RobIt
  
  **RobIt** is a RoBERTa-base model for Italian. It has been trained from scratch on the Italian portion of the OSCAR dataset using [Flax](https://github.com/google/flax), including training scripts.
  
  This is part of the
  [Flax/Jax Community Week](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/open-to-the-community-community-week-using-jax-flax-for-nlp-cv/7104), organised by [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/) and TPU usage sponsored by Google.
  
  ## Team members
  - Prateek Agrawal (prateekagrawal)
  - Tanay Mehta (yotanay)
  - Shreya Gupta (Sheyz-max)
  - Ruchi Bhatia (ruchi798)
  
  ## Dataset :
  
  [OSCAR](https://huggingface.co/datasets/oscar)
  
  - config : **unshuffled_deduplicated_it**
  - Size of downloaded dataset files: **26637.62 MB**
  - Size of the generated dataset: **70661.48 MB**
  - Total amount of disk used: **97299.10 MB**
  
  ## Useful links
  - [Community Week timeline](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/open-to-the-community-community-week-using-jax-flax-for-nlp-cv/7104#summary-timeline-calendar-6)
  - [Community Week README](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/master/examples/research_projects/jax-projects/README.md)
  - [Community Week thread](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/robit-pretrain-roberta-base-from-scratch-in-italian/7564)
  - [Community Week channel](https://discord.gg/NTyQNUNs)
  - [Masked Language Modelling example scripts](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/master/examples/flax/language-modeling)
  - [Model Repository](https://huggingface.co/flax-community/robit-roberta-base-it/)
  