CPM: A Large-scale Generative Chinese Pre-trained Language Model

Zhang Zhengyan, Han Xu, Zhou Hao, Ke Pei, Gu Yuxian, Ye Deming, Qin Yujia, Su Yusheng, Ji Haozhe, Guan Jian, Qi Fanchao, Wang Xiaozhi, Zheng Yanan, Zeng Guoyang, Cao Huanqi, Chen Shengqi, Li Daixuan, Sun Zhenbo, Liu Zhiyuan, Huang Minlie, Han Wentao, Tang Jie, Li Juanzi, Zhu Xiaoyan, Sun Maosong. Arxiv 2020

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Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have proven to be beneficial for various downstream NLP tasks. Recently, GPT-3, with 175 billion parameters and 570GB training data, drew a lot of attention due to the capacity of few-shot (even zero-shot) learning. However, applying GPT-3 to address Chinese NLP tasks is still challenging, as the training corpus of GPT-3 is primarily English, and the parameters are not publicly available. In this technical report, we release the Chinese Pre-trained Language Model (CPM) with generative pre-training on large-scale Chinese training data. To the best of our knowledge, CPM, with 2.6 billion parameters and 100GB Chinese training data, is the largest Chinese pre-trained language model, which could facilitate several downstream Chinese NLP tasks, such as conversation, essay generation, cloze test, and language understanding. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CPM achieves strong performance on many NLP tasks in the settings of few-shot (even zero-shot) learning. The code and parameters are available at https://github.com/TsinghuaAI/CPM-Generate.

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