Machado de Assis - Transformer-based Language Model

Installation

Create a virtual environment and install the dependencies:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Dataset

The dataset used in this project is a collection of the books written by Machado de Assis, a Brazilian writer. The dataset was downloaded from Kaggle and can be found here

After downloading the dataset, unzip it in the data folder then run the following command to prepare the data into a single .txt file that will be used to train our transformer model.

python data.py

Training

To train the simple bigram model, run the following command:

python train_bigram.py

To train the transformer model, run the following command:

python train.py

The weights of the transformer model will be saved in the weights folder. In total, this particular model takes about 15 minutes to train on a 4090.