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XtremeDistil-Transformers for Distilling Massive Neural Networks
XtremeDistil is a distilled task-agnostic transformer model leveraging multi-task distillation techniques from the paper "XtremeDistil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models" and "MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers" with the following "Github code".
This l6-h384 checkpoint with 6 layers, 384 hidden size, 12 attention heads corresponds to 22 million parameters with 5.3x speedup over BERT-base.
The following table shows the results on GLUE dev set and SQuAD-v2.
| Models | #Params | Speedup | MNLI | QNLI | QQP | RTE | SST | MRPC | SQUAD2 | Avg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BERT | 109 | 1x | 84.5 | 91.7 | 91.3 | 68.6 | 93.2 | 87.3 | 76.8 | 84.8 |
| DistilBERT | 66 | 2x | 82.2 | 89.2 | 88.5 | 59.9 | 91.3 | 87.5 | 70.7 | 81.3 |
| TinyBERT | 66 | 2x | 83.5 | 90.5 | 90.6 | 72.2 | 91.6 | 88.4 | 73.1 | 84.3 |
| MiniLM | 66 | 2x | 84.0 | 91.0 | 91.0 | 71.5 | 92.0 | 88.4 | 76.4 | 84.9 |
| MiniLM | 22 | 5.3x | 82.8 | 90.3 | 90.6 | 68.9 | 91.3 | 86.6 | 72.9 | 83.3 |
| XtremeDistil-l6-h256 | 13 | 8.7x | 83.9 | 89.5 | 90.6 | 80.1 | 91.2 | 90.0 | 74.1 | 85.6 |
| XtremeDistil-l6-h384 | 22 | 5.3x | 85.4 | 90.3 | 91.0 | 80.9 | 92.3 | 90.0 | 76.6 | 86.6 |
| XtremeDistil-l12-h384 | 33 | 2.7x | 87.2 | 91.9 | 91.3 | 85.6 | 93.1 | 90.4 | 80.2 | 88.5 |
Tested with tensorflow 2.3.1, transformers 4.1.1, torch 1.6.0
If you use this checkpoint in your work, please cite:
@inproceedings{mukherjee-hassan-awadallah-2020-xtremedistil,
title = "{X}treme{D}istil: Multi-stage Distillation for Massive Multilingual Models",
author = "Mukherjee, Subhabrata and
Hassan Awadallah, Ahmed",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
month = jul,
year = "2020",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.202",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.202",
pages = "2221--2234",
}
@misc{wang2020minilm,
title={MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers},
author={Wenhui Wang and Furu Wei and Li Dong and Hangbo Bao and Nan Yang and Ming Zhou},
year={2020},
eprint={2002.10957},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}