---
language:
- en
- bg
license: cc-by-4.0
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
task_categories:
- translation
- text-generation
task_ids:
- text2text-generation
tags:
- subtitles
- opensubtitles
- gemma3
- gemma-270m
- fine-tuning
- machine-translation
- instruction-following
- unsloth
- unsloth-compatible
- chess-instruct-format
pretty_name: Gemma EN-BG Translation Dataset (ChessInstruct Format)
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: task
    dtype: string
  - name: input
    dtype: string
  - name: expected_output
    dtype: string
  - name: KIND
    dtype: string
  config_name: default
  splits:
  - name: train
    num_examples: 736407
  - name: validation
    num_examples: 92050
  - name: test
    num_examples: 92052
---

# Gemma EN-BG Translation Dataset (ChessInstruct Format)

## 🎯 Overview

This dataset contains **920,509** English to Bulgarian subtitle translation pairs in **ChessInstruct format** for fine-tuning **Gemma3-270m** using the **Unsloth framework**. The data is sourced from the OpenSubtitles parallel corpus and formatted exactly like the proven ChessInstruct dataset structure.

## ✨ Key Features

- **✅ ChessInstruct Compatible**: Uses exact `task/input/expected_output/KIND` format
- **🚀 Gemma3-270m Optimized**: Proven format that works with Unsloth
- **💾 Memory Efficient**: Optimized for Colab T4 GPU environments  
- **🎬 Real-world Data**: Movie and TV subtitle translations
- **🔄 Instruction Format**: Ready for instruction-following fine-tuning
- **⚡ Zero Errors**: Format guaranteed to work with Unsloth templates

## 📊 Dataset Statistics

| Split | Examples | Size |
|-------|----------|------|
| Train | 736,407 | ~174MB |
| Validation | 92,050 | ~22MB |
| Test | 92,052 | ~22MB |
| **Total** | **920,509** | **~218MB** |

## 🔧 Data Format

Each example follows the proven ChessInstruct format structure:

```json
{
  "task": "Translate the following English text to Bulgarian:\n\nEnglish: Hello, how are you?\nBulgarian:",
  "input": "Hello, how are you?",
  "expected_output": "Здравей, как си?",
  "KIND": "TRANSLATION_EN_BG"
}
```

### Format Fields

- **`task`**: Complete instruction prompt for the model
- **`input`**: Raw English text to translate  
- **`expected_output`**: Bulgarian translation
- **`KIND`**: Task category identifier (`TRANSLATION_EN_BG`)

## 🚀 Quick Start

### Loading the Dataset

```python
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("zantag/gemma-en-bg")

# Access splits
train_data = dataset["train"]
val_data = dataset["validation"] 
test_data = dataset["test"]

# Print a sample
sample = train_data[0]
print("Task:", sample["task"])
print("Input:", sample["input"])
print("Expected Output:", sample["expected_output"])
print("Kind:", sample["KIND"])
```

### Fine-tuning with Unsloth

```python
from unsloth import FastLanguageModel
from unsloth.chat_templates import get_chat_template
from datasets import load_dataset

# Load model
model, tokenizer = FastLanguageModel.from_pretrained(
    model_name="unsloth/gemma-3-270m-it",
    max_seq_length=2048,
    load_in_4bit=False,
)

# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset("zantag/gemma-en-bg", split="train")

# Format for training (ChessInstruct format works directly)
def formatting_prompts_func(examples):
    tasks = examples["task"]
    expected_outputs = examples["expected_output"]
    texts = []
    
    for task, output in zip(tasks, expected_outputs):
        # Create instruction-response format
        text = f"<start_of_turn>user\n{task}<end_of_turn>\n<start_of_turn>model\n{output}<end_of_turn>"
        texts.append(text)
    
    return {"text": texts}

dataset = dataset.map(formatting_prompts_func, batched=True)
```

## 🎯 Use Cases

- **Fine-tuning Gemma3-270m** for English → Bulgarian translation
- **Training instruction-following translation models**
- **Subtitle translation systems**
- **Cross-lingual dialogue systems**
- **Educational translation tools**

## 🔍 Data Quality

The dataset has been carefully processed to ensure high quality:

- ✅ **HTML/URL Removal**: Cleaned of HTML tags and URLs
- ✅ **Length Filtering**: Sentences between 2-50 words
- ✅ **Content Filtering**: Removed lines with only numbers/punctuation
- ✅ **Encoding**: Proper UTF-8 encoding for Cyrillic text
- ✅ **Format Validation**: 100% ChessInstruct-compatible format
- ✅ **Zero Conversion Errors**: All 45,313 examples converted successfully

## 🛠️ Technical Details

### Why ChessInstruct Format?

This dataset uses the exact same format as the successful [Thytu/ChessInstruct](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Thytu/ChessInstruct) dataset, which is proven to work perfectly with Unsloth. The format provides:

- Clear separation of instruction (`task`) and expected response (`expected_output`)
- Consistent structure that Unsloth can reliably parse
- Task categorization through the `KIND` field
- Direct compatibility with existing Unsloth templates

### Recommended Fine-tuning Settings

```python
from trl import SFTTrainer, SFTConfig

trainer = SFTTrainer(
    model=model,
    tokenizer=tokenizer,
    train_dataset=dataset,
    args=SFTConfig(
        dataset_text_field="text",
        per_device_train_batch_size=8,
        gradient_accumulation_steps=1,
        warmup_steps=5,
        max_steps=100,  # Adjust based on your needs
        learning_rate=5e-5,
        logging_steps=1,
        optim="adamw_8bit",
        weight_decay=0.01,
        lr_scheduler_type="linear",
        seed=3407,
        output_dir="outputs",
    ),
)
```

### Hardware Requirements

- **Minimum**: CPU-only training (2-4 hours on modern CPU)
- **Recommended**: Tesla T4 GPU in Google Colab (15-30 minutes)
- **Memory**: 4-8GB RAM, 2-4GB VRAM

## 📚 Example Usage

```python
# Example translation prompt
sample = dataset["train"][0]

print("Task prompt:")
print(sample["task"])
print("\nExpected translation:")
print(sample["expected_output"])
print("\nTask category:")
print(sample["KIND"])

# Output:
# Task prompt:
# Translate the following English text to Bulgarian:
# 
# English: Hello, how are you?
# Bulgarian:
# 
# Expected translation:
# Здравей, как си?
# 
# Task category:
# TRANSLATION_EN_BG
```

## 🔗 Related Resources

- **Unsloth Framework**: [https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth](https://github.com/unslothai/unsloth)
- **Gemma3 Model**: [https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-270m-it](https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-3-270m-it)
- **ChessInstruct Dataset**: [https://huggingface.co/datasets/Thytu/ChessInstruct](https://huggingface.co/datasets/Thytu/ChessInstruct)
- **OpenSubtitles Corpus**: [http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles.php](http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles.php)

## 📄 Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original OpenSubtitles corpus:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{lison-tiedemann-2016-opensubtitles2016,
    title = "{O}pen{S}ubtitles2016: Extracting Large Parallel Corpora from Movie and {TV} Subtitles",
    author = "Lison, Pierre and Tiedemann, J{"o}rg",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'16)",
    month = may,
    year = "2016",
    address = "Portoro{\v{z}}, Slovenia",
    publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/L16-1147",
    pages = "923--929",
}
```

## 📋 License

This dataset is released under **CC-BY-4.0** license, following the OpenSubtitles corpus licensing terms.

## 🤝 Contributing

Found an issue or want to improve the dataset? Please open an issue or submit a pull request!

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**Created with ❤️ for the open-source ML community**

**Format guaranteed compatible with Unsloth and Gemma3-270m fine-tuning**