π§ General Text Summarizer
This model is a fine-tuned version of sshleifer/distilbart-cnn-12-6, trained to generate concise and fluent summaries of general English text β including news articles, essays, stories, and blog posts.
π Model Description
- Base model: DistilBART (CNN/DailyMail)
- Framework: π€ Transformers (PyTorch)
- Training goal: Summarize text across multiple domains (not limited to one topic)
- Device optimized: CPU & Apple M-series chips (MPS compatible)
This model is suitable for lightweight summarization tasks on laptops or limited-resource machines.
π§Ύ Example Usage
from transformers import pipeline
summarizer = pipeline("summarization", model="Fathi7ma/general_text_summarizer_cpu")
text = """ Climate change continues to affect weather patterns across the globe. Scientists warn that without immediate action, rising temperatures may lead to irreversible damage to ecosystems and human livelihoods. """
summary = summarizer(text, max_length=80, min_length=25, do_sample=False) print(summary[0]['summary_text'])
Intended uses
This model can summarize: β’ News articles β’ Research abstracts β’ Reports and blogs β’ Long paragraphs of general English text
Example domains: general news, education, business summaries, and everyday content.
Training
β’ Dataset: A subset of CNN/DailyMail, filtered and balanced for general summarization.
β’ Approx. 10,000 samples used for CPU-efficient fine-tuning.
β’ Texts are trimmed and normalized for readability.
Training hyperparameters
The following hyperparameters were used during training:
- learning_rate: 2e-05
- train_batch_size: 1
- eval_batch_size: 1
- seed: 42
- optimizer: Use OptimizerNames.ADAMW_TORCH_FUSED with betas=(0.9,0.999) and epsilon=1e-08 and optimizer_args=No additional optimizer arguments
- lr_scheduler_type: linear
- num_epochs: 1
Training results
| Training Loss | Epoch | Step | Validation Loss | Rouge1 | Rouge2 | Rougel | Rougelsum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2534 | 1.0 | 600 | 2.1023 | 36.61 | 16.51 | 26.24 | 33.45 |
Framework versions
- Transformers 4.57.1
- Pytorch 2.9.0
- Datasets 4.3.0
- Tokenizers 0.22.1
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- RougeL on CNN/DailyMailself-reported26.240
- RougeLsum on CNN/DailyMailself-reported33.450