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What is the state of GPT-3 for text classification in spanish?


I would like to know if it is possible to reuse gpt-3 in a different language, Spanish in this case.

Do I need a gpt-3 model specifically trained with a Spanish corpus, or can I use transfer learning to produce Spanish text?


Solution

  • GPT-3 is only available via an API and only to people who apply for the access. The model is too big to run it locally on any reasonable hardware and fine-tuning is thus hardly an option.

    Given how well GPT-3 works machine translation, my guess is that it will work reasonably well for Spanish by default. However, if your task is text classification, you can do a much better job when using a pre-trained BERT-like model, Hugginface's Transformers already have several models for Spanish.