# google-t5/t5-small

This model is a language model with 60 million parameters and it treats inputs and outputs as text strings. It supports machine translation, summarization, question answering, classification, and regression in English, French, Romanian, and German.

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## 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-small
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## Description

This model is a language model with 60 million parameters and it treats inputs and outputs as text strings. It supports machine translation, summarization, question answering, classification, and regression in English, French, Romanian, and German.

## Model Card Facts

- Declared license: apache-2.0
- Pipeline: translation
- Library: transformers
- Task categories: translation
- Languages: en, fr, ro, de, multilingual
- Referenced datasets: c4
- Paper ids: 1805.12471, 1708.00055, 1704.05426, 1606.05250, 1808.09121, 1810.12885
- File hints: 16 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

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- config.json
- flax_model.msgpack
- generation_config.json
- model.safetensors
- onnx/decoder_model.onnx
- onnx/decoder_model_merged.onnx
- onnx/decoder_model_merged_quantized.onnx
- onnx/decoder_model_quantized.onnx
- onnx/decoder_with_past_model.onnx
- onnx/decoder_with_past_model_quantized.onnx

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- Description: passed
- Model card metadata: passed
- License: passed
- Provenance: passed
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- Manifest signature: passed

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- External catalog metadata imported from Hugging Face public API on 2026-06-30T01:50:32.065Z.
- Open license detected as apache-2.0.
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