# google-t5/t5-base

This model is a language model with 220 million parameters that uses a text to text format where inputs and outputs are always text strings. It was pretrained on a multitask mixture and is used for machine translation, summarization, question answering, classification, and regression.

## Cite this

- Page: https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base
- Citation: google-t5/t5-base. The Hugging Bay model record. https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base (retrieved 2026-11-14).
- Check a downloaded file: run `shasum -a 256 <file>` (macOS), `sha256sum <file>` (Linux) or `Get-FileHash -Algorithm SHA256 <file>` (Windows), then compare with that file's SHA-256 at https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/files?limit=100. How checks work: https://huggingbay.xyz/verification

## Facts

- Type: LLM
- Task: translation
- Framework: transformers
- License: apache-2.0: Permissive open license: commercial use, modification, and redistribution are permitted. (https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html)
- Source: https://huggingface.co/google-t5/t5-base
- Hosting: hosted (9 files)
- Files: 9 hosted of 11 listed
- File counts: "listed" is every file in the source repository; only hosted files download from Hugging Bay, and the download plan lists the files it selects for one download, so its count can differ.
- Hosted here: 9 hosted of 11 listed
- Full repo upstream: 4.46 GB
- Recommended file: 891.6 MB · model.safetensors
- Download: https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/download-plan (download plan: https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/download-plan)
- Per-file SHA-256: available for 9 of 9 hosted files via https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/files?limit=100
- Availability: Ready
- Downloadable: yes
- Run-ready: no (Hugging Bay has not certified a run path for this model; hosted bytes are downloadable and hash-checkable only)
- Peer-assisted fallbacks: 0 verified, 0 pending review
- Downloads: 2691482
- Stars: 811
- Card completeness: 92%

## Description

This model is a language model with 220 million parameters that uses a text to text format where inputs and outputs are always text strings. It was pretrained on a multitask mixture and is used for machine translation, summarization, question answering, classification, and regression.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: translation
- Library: transformers
- Task categories: translation
- Languages: en, fr, ro, de
- Referenced datasets: c4
- Paper ids: 1805.12471, 1708.00055, 1704.05426, 1606.05250, 1808.09121, 1810.12885
- File hints: 11 upstream file samples

## Referenced Data

- Dataset: c4
- Paper: 1805.12471
- Paper: 1708.00055
- Paper: 1704.05426
- Paper: 1606.05250
- Paper: 1808.09121
- Paper: 1810.12885
- Paper: 1905.10044
- Paper: 1910.09700

## File Hints

- .gitattributes
- README.md
- config.json
- flax_model.msgpack
- generation_config.json
- model.safetensors
- pytorch_model.bin
- rust_model.ot
- spiece.model
- tf_model.h5
- tokenizer.json

## Quality Checklist

- Summary: passed
- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
- File inventory: passed
- Hosted bytes: passed
- Scan result: passed
- Manifest signature: passed

## Safety Notes

- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-07-29T22:21:46.068Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
- Model card references dataset context: c4.
- Not a run kit: hosted, hash-checked bytes only; run readiness is not certified for this model yet.

## Actions

- Web: https://huggingbay.xyz/artifact/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base
- Files API: https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/files?limit=100
- Metadata: https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/metadata.json
- Distribution: https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/distribution
- Manifest: https://huggingbay.xyz/api/manifests/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base
- Download plan (per-file SHA-256 + signed download URLs): https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/download-plan
- Hosted download rows: https://huggingbay.xyz/api/downloadable-files?artifactId=hf-model-google-t5-t5-base&limit=100
- Request mirror: not applicable.
- Submit peer fallback for review: POST https://huggingbay.xyz/api/artifacts/hf-model-google-t5-t5-base/decentralized-fallbacks