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wikineural-multilingual-ner

by Babelscape Babelscape/wikineural-multilingual-ner

This is the model card for the EMNLP 2021 paper WikiNEuRal: Combined Neural and Knowledge-based Silver Data Creation for Multilingual NER.

Parameters177M
Context512
Weights1.4 GB
Licensecc-by-nc-sa-4.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads677.1k

Runs On

What it takes to serve wikineural-multilingual-ner (177M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 0.4 GB 0.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.2 GB 0.2 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.1 GB 0.1 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on wikineural-multilingual-ner

Nine languages, a 512-token window, 0.4 GB of memory. That is the envelope for Babelscape's wikineural-multilingual-ner, a BERT token classifier with 177 million parameters that tags named entities in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese and Russian, trained on all nine at once. At 16-bit the weights and the memory needed are both 0.4 GB, and the cheapest listed host is a 192 GB MI300X at $1.85 an hour. We would never dedicate a card to it.

The license decides this deployment. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 permits non-commercial sharing and adapting with credit, requires adaptations to carry the same license, and requires separate permission for commercial use, so a revenue-producing pipeline needs Babelscape's permission first. Also check the 512-token context, which forces long documents to be chunked, and the training set, Babelscape/wikineural, which the model was fine-tuned on for 3 epochs and which sets what the tagger knows.

Model Card

This is the model card for the EMNLP 2021 paper WikiNEuRal: Combined Neural and Knowledge-based Silver Data Creation for Multilingual NER. We fine-tuned a multilingual language model (mBERT) for 3 epochs on our WikiNEuRal dataset for Named Entity Recognition (NER). The resulting multilingual NER model supports the 9 languages covered by WikiNEuRal (de, en, es, fr, it, nl, pl, pt, ru), and it was trained on all 9 languages jointly. If you use the model, please reference this work in your paper: The original repository for the paper can be found at https://github.com/Babelscape/wikineural. You can use this model with Transformers pipeline for NER. This model is trained on WikiNEuRal, a…

Excerpt from the card by Babelscape, licensed cc-by-nc-sa-4.0.

Configuration

Architecture
BertForTokenClassification
Context length (tokens)
512
Layers
12
Hidden size
768
Feed-forward size
3,072
Attention heads
12
Vocabulary size
119,547
Stored precision
float32
Model type
bert

Identity and Version

Repository
Babelscape/wikineural-multilingual-ner
Publisher
Babelscape
Task
Token classification
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
177M parameters
Languages
de, en, es, fr, it, nl, pl, pt
Revision
bed6ee7a45d2827b6c90a4fd7983f0241ae0a5c1
First published
2022-03-02
Last updated
2023-05-23

Files and Weights

14 files, 1.4 GB in total. The weights are 3 files totalling 1.4 GB in bin, safetensors.

Weights3 files · 1.4 GB
Configuration2 files · 1.3 KB
Tokenizer3 files · 3.0 MB
Documentation1 file · 4.4 KB
Other3 files · 28.2 KB
Repository2 files · 1.2 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights709.1 MB 34b3e27fbcd0
pytorch_model.binWeights709.2 MB a9e728df32b1
training_args.binWeights3.1 KB c57db5ce7431
config.jsonConfiguration1.2 KB
special_tokens_map.jsonConfiguration112 B
README.mdDocumentation4.4 KB
runs/Jan31_12-50-32_1d34b266184b/1643633475.0376945/events.out.tfevents.1643633475.1d34b266184b.643930.1Other4.8 KB 180d60d533bf
runs/Jan31_12-50-32_1d34b266184b/events.out.tfevents.1643633473.1d34b266184b.643930.0Other22.8 KB b98ecc90dea1
runs/Jan31_12-50-32_1d34b266184b/events.out.tfevents.1643637756.1d34b266184b.643930.2Other521 B 4dcd5f2816df
.gitattributesRepository1.2 KB
.gitignoreRepository13 B
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer2.0 MB
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer333 B
vocab.txtTokenizer995.5 KB

License and Download

License
cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
1.4 GB
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Released by Babelscape through its official repository on Hugging Face.

Built From

  • Trained on (disclosed) Babelscape/wikineural

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published1.4 GB
16-bit0.4 GB
8-bit0.2 GB
4-bit0.1 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

Questions About wikineural-multilingual-ner

How much GPU memory does wikineural-multilingual-ner need?

About 0.4 GB at 16-bit and 0.1 GB at 4-bit: the weights (177M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run wikineural-multilingual-ner on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use wikineural-multilingual-ner commercially?

Not without separate permission. wikineural-multilingual-ner is released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 permits non-commercial sharing and adapting with credit, and requires adaptations to use the same license. Commercial use needs separate permission.

What is wikineural-multilingual-ner's context length?

512 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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