| TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding | |
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| TinyBERT is 7.5x smaller and 9.4x faster on inference than BERT-base and achieves competitive performances in the tasks of natural language understanding. It performs a novel transformer distillation at both the pre-training and task-specific learning stages. In general distillation, we use the original BERT-base without fine-tuning as the teacher and a large-scale text corpus as the learning data. By performing the Transformer distillation on the text from general domain, we obtain a general TinyBERT which provides a good initialization for the task-specific distillation. We here provide the general TinyBERT for your tasks at hand. | |
| For more details about the techniques of TinyBERT, refer to our paper: | |
| [TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding](https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10351) | |
| Citation | |
| ======== | |
| If you find TinyBERT useful in your research, please cite the following paper: | |
| ``` | |
| @article{jiao2019tinybert, | |
| title={Tinybert: Distilling bert for natural language understanding}, | |
| author={Jiao, Xiaoqi and Yin, Yichun and Shang, Lifeng and Jiang, Xin and Chen, Xiao and Li, Linlin and Wang, Fang and Liu, Qun}, | |
| journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.10351}, | |
| year={2019} | |
| } | |
| ``` | |