Sailor is a suite of Open Language Models tailored for South-East Asia (SEA), focusing on languages such as 🇮🇩Indonesian, 🇹🇭Thai, 🇻🇳Vietnamese, 🇲🇾Malay, and 🇱🇦Lao. Developed with careful data curation, Sailor models are designed to understand and generate text across diverse linguistic landscapes of SEA region. Built from Qwen 1.5 , Sailor encompasses models of varying sizes, spanning from 0.5B to 14B versions for different requirements. We further fine-tune the base model with open-source datasets to get instruction-tuned models, namedly Sailor-Chat. Benchmarking results demonstrate Sailor's proficiency in tasks such as question answering, commonsense reasoning, and other tasks in SEA languages.

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Model Summary

• Model Collections: Base Model & Chat Model
• Project Website: sea-sailor.github.io/blog/sailor1/
• Codebase: github.com/sail-sg/sailor-llm
• Technical Report: arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03608.pdf

Training details

Sailor is crafted by continually pre-training from language models like the remarkable Qwen 1.5 models, which already has a great performance on SEA languages. The pre-training corpus heavily leverages the publicly available corpus, including SlimPajama, SkyPile, CC100 and MADLAD-400. The instruction tuning corpus are all publicly available including aya_collection, aya_dataset, OpenOrca, UltraChat, UltraFeedback.

By employing aggressive data deduplication and careful data cleaning on the collected corpus, we have attained a high-quality dataset spanning various languages. Through systematic experiments to determine the weights of different languages, Sailor models undergo training from 200B to 400B tokens, tailored to different model sizes. The approach boosts their performance on SEA languages while maintaining proficiency in English and Chinese without significant compromise. Finally, we continually pre-train the Qwen1.5-0.5B model with 400 Billion tokens, and other models with 200 Billion tokens to obtain the Sailor models.

Requirements

The code of Sailor has been in the latest Hugging face transformers and we advise you to install transformers>=4.37.0.

Quickstart

Here provides a code snippet to show you how to load the tokenizer and model and how to generate contents.

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
device = "cuda"

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    'sail/Sailor-14B-Chat',
    torch_dtype="auto",
    device_map="auto"
)

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('sail/Sailor-14B-Chat')
system_prompt= \
'You are an AI assistant named Sailor created by Sea AI Lab. \
As an AI assistant, you need to answer a series of questions next, which may include languages such as English, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Malay, and so on. \
Your answer should be friendly, unbiased, faithful, informative and detailed.'

prompt = "Beri saya pengenalan singkat tentang model bahasa besar."
# prompt = "Hãy cho tôi một giới thiệu ngắn gọn về mô hình ngôn ngữ lớn."
# prompt = "ให้ฉันแนะนำสั้น ๆ เกี่ยวกับโมเดลภาษาขนาดใหญ่"

messages = [
    {"role": "system", "content": system_prompt},
    {"role": "user", "content": prompt}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
    messages,
    tokenize=False,
    add_generation_prompt=True
)

model_inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(device)
input_ids = model_inputs.input_ids.to(device)

generated_ids = model.generate(
    input_ids,
    max_new_tokens=512,
)

generated_ids = [
    output_ids[len(input_ids):] for input_ids, output_ids in zip(model_inputs.input_ids, generated_ids)
]
response = tokenizer.batch_decode(generated_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)[0]
print(response)

License

Sailor is distributed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0. No restrict on the research and the commercial use, but should comply with the Qwen License.

Citation

If you find sailor useful, please cite our work as follows:

@inproceedings{dou-etal-2024-sailor,
    title = "Sailor: Open Language Models for South-{E}ast {A}sia",
    author = "Dou, Longxu and Liu, Qian and Zeng, Guangtao and Guo, Jia  and Zhou, Jiahui and Mao, Xin and Jin, Ziqi and Lu, Wei and Lin, Min",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations",
    year = "2024",
}

Contact Us

If you have any questions, please raise an issue or contact us at doulx@sea.com or liuqian.sea@gmail.com.