metadata

language:
  - en
  - bn
library_name: transformers
license: apache-2.0
tags:
  - transformers
  - gemma2
  - gemma

rishiraj/gemma-2-9b-bn

This repository extends the google/gemma-2-9b tokenizer by training it on Bengali text. The original tokenizer splits many Bengali words into subword components, leading to inefficiency and loss of meaning. Our extended Bengali tokenizer better preserves word integrity, tokenizing more effectively with fewer splits, ensuring more meaningful representation of the text.

Token Information

Tokenizer	Number of Tokens
`google/gemma-2-9b`	256,000
`rishiraj/gemma-2-9b-bn`	392,402

Why Fewer Tokens for Bengali?

While Bengali is very expressive and flexible, it hasn't undergone as much global influence as English in terms of absorbing new words from many different languages.

Tokenizer Comparison

Text:

আমি একজন ভালো ছেলে এবং আমি ফুটবল খেলতে পছন্দ করি

Tokenizer	Output
`google/gemma-2-9b`	['আ', 'মি', '▁এক', 'জন', '▁ভ', 'াল', 'ো', '▁', 'ছে', 'লে', '▁এবং', '▁আম', 'ি', '▁ফ', 'ু', 'ট', 'ব', 'ল', '▁খ', 'েল', 'তে', '▁প', 'ছ', 'ন্দ', '▁কর', 'ি']
`rishiraj/gemma-2-9b-bn`	['আমি', '▁একজন', '▁ভালো', '▁ছেলে', '▁এবং', '▁আমি', '▁ফুটবল', '▁খেলতে', '▁পছন্দ', '▁করি']

Usage

Install dependencies:
```
pip install transformers
```

Load and use the tokenizer:

from transformers import AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("rishiraj/gemma-2-9b-bn")
tokens = tokenizer.tokenize("আমি একজন ভালো ছেলে এবং আমি ফুটবল খেলতে পছন্দ করি")
print(tokens)