As Transfer Learning from large-scale pre-trained models becomes more prevalent in Natural Language Processing (NLP), operating these large models in on-theedge and/or under constrained computational training or inference budgets remains challenging. In this work, we propose a method to pre-train a smaller generalpurpose language representation model, called DistilBERT, which can then be finetuned with good performances on a wide range of tasks like its larger counterparts. While most prior work investigated the use of distillation for building task-specific models, we leverage knowledge distillation during the pre-training phase and show that it is possible to reduce the size of a BERT model by 40%, while retaining 97% of its language understanding capabilities and being 60% faster. To leverage the inductive biases learned by larger models during pre-training, we introduce a triple loss combining language modeling, distillation and cosine-distance losses. Our smaller, faster and lighter model is cheaper to pre-train and we demonstrate its capabilities for on-device computations in a proof-of-concept experiment and a comparative on-device study.

基于变压器的语言模型应用于自然语言处理的广泛应用程序。但是，它们效率低，难以部署。近年来，已经提出了许多压缩算法来提高目标硬件上大型变压器的模型的实现效率。在这项工作中，我们通过整合体重修剪和模型蒸馏来提出一种训练稀疏预训练的变压器语言模型的新方法。这些稀疏的预训练型号可用于在维护稀疏模式的同时传输广泛的任务。我们展示了我们有三个已知的架构的方法，以创建稀疏的预训练伯特基，BERT-MAT​​RY和DISTOLBERT。我们展示了压缩稀疏的预训练模型如何培训他们的知识，以最小的精度损失将他们的知识转移到五种不同的下游自然语言任务。此外，我们展示了如何使用量化感知培训进一步将稀疏模型的重量压缩为8位精度。例如，在SQUAdv1.1上使用我们稀疏预训练的BERT频率，并量化为8位，我们为编码器达到40美元的压缩比，而不是1 \％$精度损失。据我们所知，我们的结果表明Bert-Base，Bert-Light和Distilbert的最佳压缩至准确率。

大型的语言模型（PRELMS）正在彻底改变所有基准的自然语言处理。但是，它们的巨大尺寸对于小型实验室或移动设备上的部署而言是过分的。修剪和蒸馏等方法可减少模型尺寸，但通常保留相同的模型体系结构。相反，我们探索了蒸馏预告片中的更有效的架构，单词的持续乘法（CMOW），该构造将每个单词嵌入为矩阵，并使用矩阵乘法来编码序列。我们扩展了CMOW体系结构及其CMOW/CBOW-HYBRID变体，具有双向组件，以提供更具表现力的功能，在预绘制期间进行一般（任务无义的）蒸馏的单次表示，并提供了两种序列编码方案，可促进下游任务。句子对，例如句子相似性和自然语言推断。我们的基于矩阵的双向CMOW/CBOW-HYBRID模型在问题相似性和识别文本范围内的Distilbert具有竞争力，但仅使用参数数量的一半，并且在推理速度方面快三倍。除了情感分析任务SST-2和语言可接受性任务COLA外，我们匹配或超过ELMO的ELMO分数。但是，与以前的跨架结构蒸馏方法相比，我们证明了检测语言可接受性的分数增加了一倍。这表明基于基质的嵌入可用于将大型预赛提炼成竞争模型，并激励朝这个方向进行进一步的研究。

Language model pre-training, such as BERT, has significantly improved the performances of many natural language processing tasks. However, pre-trained language models are usually computationally expensive, so it is difficult to efficiently execute them on resourcerestricted devices. To accelerate inference and reduce model size while maintaining accuracy, we first propose a novel Transformer distillation method that is specially designed for knowledge distillation (KD) of the Transformer-based models. By leveraging this new KD method, the plenty of knowledge encoded in a large "teacher" BERT can be effectively transferred to a small "student" Tiny-BERT. Then, we introduce a new two-stage learning framework for TinyBERT, which performs Transformer distillation at both the pretraining and task-specific learning stages. This framework ensures that TinyBERT can capture the general-domain as well as the task-specific knowledge in BERT. TinyBERT 41 with 4 layers is empirically effective and achieves more than 96.8% the performance of its teacher BERT BASE on GLUE benchmark, while being 7.5x smaller and 9.4x faster on inference. TinyBERT 4 is also significantly better than 4-layer state-of-the-art baselines on BERT distillation, with only ∼28% parameters and ∼31% inference time of them. Moreover, TinyBERT 6 with 6 layers performs on-par with its teacher BERT BASE .

在生物医学语料库中预先培训的语言模型，例如Biobert，最近在下游生物医学任务上显示出令人鼓舞的结果。另一方面，由于嵌入尺寸，隐藏尺寸和层数等因素，许多现有的预训练模型在资源密集型和计算上都是沉重的。自然语言处理（NLP）社区已经制定了许多策略来压缩这些模型，利用修剪，定量和知识蒸馏等技术，从而导致模型更快，更小，随后更易于使用。同样，在本文中，我们介绍了六种轻型模型，即Biodistilbert，Biotinybert，BioMobilebert，Distilbiobert，Tinybiobert和Cmpactactbiobert，并通过掩护的语言在PubMed DataSet上通过掩护数据进行了知识蒸馏而获得的知识蒸馏来获得。建模（MLM）目标。我们在三个生物医学任务上评估了所有模型，并将它们与Biobert-V1.1进行比较，以创建有效的轻量级模型，以与较大的对应物相同。所有模型将在我们的HuggingFace配置文件上公开可用，网址为https://huggingface.co/nlpie，用于运行实验的代码将在https://github.com/nlpie-research/compact-compact-biomedical-transformers上获得。

由于从大规模预先训练的语言模型的转移学习在自然语言处理中普遍存在，在计算受限环境中运行这些模型仍然是一个具有挑战性的问题。已经提出了包括知识蒸馏，网络量化或网络修剪的几种解决方案;然而，这些方法主要关注英语，从而在考虑低资源语言时扩大差距。在这项工作中，我们为罗马尼亚语推出了三种轻型和快速版本的罗马尼亚语言：Distil-Bert-Base-Ro，Distil-Robert-Base和DistilMulti-Bert-Bas-Ro。前两种模型因单独蒸馏在文献中提供的两个基础版本的罗马尼亚伯爵的知识，而最后一个是通过蒸馏它们的集合来获得的。为了我们的知识，这是第一次尝试创建公开可用的罗马尼亚蒸馏BERT模型，这是在五个任务上进行彻底评估的：语音标记，名为实体识别，情感分析，语义文本相似性和方言识别。这些基准测试的实验结果证明，我们的三种蒸馏模型在与老师的准确性方面保持最大的表现，而GPU的两倍于GPU和〜35 \％较小。此外，我们进一步测试了我们的学生和他们的老师之间的相似性，通过测量其标签和概率忠诚度以及回归忠诚度 - 在这项工作中引入的新指标。

We introduce a new language representation model called BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers. Unlike recent language representation models (Peters et al., 2018a;Radford et al., 2018), BERT is designed to pretrain deep bidirectional representations from unlabeled text by jointly conditioning on both left and right context in all layers. As a result, the pre-trained BERT model can be finetuned with just one additional output layer to create state-of-the-art models for a wide range of tasks, such as question answering and language inference, without substantial taskspecific architecture modifications.BERT is conceptually simple and empirically powerful. It obtains new state-of-the-art results on eleven natural language processing tasks, including pushing the GLUE score to 80.5% (7.7% point absolute improvement), MultiNLI accuracy to 86.7% (4.6% absolute improvement), SQuAD v1.1 question answering Test F1 to 93.2 (1.5 point absolute improvement) and SQuAD v2.0 Test F1 to 83.1 (5.1 point absolute improvement).

基于变压器的NLP模型是使用数亿甚至数十亿个参数训练的，从而限制了其在计算受限环境中的适用性。尽管参数的数量通常与性能相关，但尚不清楚下游任务是否需要整个网络。在最新的修剪和提炼预培训模型的工作中，我们探索了在预训练模型中放下层的策略，并观察修剪对下游胶水任务的影响。我们能够修剪Bert，Roberta和XLNet型号高达40％，同时保持其原始性能的98％。此外，我们证明，在大小和性能方面，您的修剪模型与使用知识蒸馏的型号相提并论。我们的实验产生有趣的观察结果，例如（i）下层对于维持下游任务性能最重要，（ii）某些任务（例如释义检测和句子相似性）对于降低层的降低和（iii）经过训练的模型更强大。使用不同的目标函数表现出不同的学习模式，并且层掉落。

用于预培训语言模型的自我监督学习的核心包括预训练任务设计以及适当的数据增强。语言模型中的大多数数据增强都是独立于上下文的。最近在电子中提出了一个开创性的增强，并通过引入辅助生成网络（发电机）来实现最先进的性能，以产生用于培训主要辨别网络（鉴别者）的上下文化数据增强。然而，这种设计引入了发电机的额外计算成本，并且需要调整发电机和鉴别器之间的相对能力。在本文中，我们提出了一种自增强策略（SAS），其中单个网络用于审视以后的时期的培训常规预训练和上下文化数据增强。基本上，该策略消除了单独的发电机，并使用单个网络共同执行具有MLM（屏蔽语言建模）和RTD（替换令牌检测）头的两个预训练任务。它避免了寻找适当大小的发电机的挑战，这对于在电子中证明的性能至关重要，以及其随后的变体模型至关重要。此外，SAS是一项常规策略，可以与最近或将来的许多新技术无缝地结合，例如杜伯塔省的解除关注机制。我们的实验表明，SAS能够在具有相似或更少的计算成本中优于胶水任务中的电磁和其他最先进的模型。

Masked language modeling (MLM) pre-training methods such as BERT corrupt the input by replacing some tokens with [MASK] and then train a model to reconstruct the original tokens. While they produce good results when transferred to downstream NLP tasks, they generally require large amounts of compute to be effective. As an alternative, we propose a more sample-efficient pre-training task called replaced token detection. Instead of masking the input, our approach corrupts it by replacing some tokens with plausible alternatives sampled from a small generator network. Then, instead of training a model that predicts the original identities of the corrupted tokens, we train a discriminative model that predicts whether each token in the corrupted input was replaced by a generator sample or not. Thorough experiments demonstrate this new pre-training task is more efficient than MLM because the task is defined over all input tokens rather than just the small subset that was masked out. As a result, the contextual representations learned by our approach substantially outperform the ones learned by BERT given the same model size, data, and compute. The gains are particularly strong for small models; for example, we train a model on one GPU for 4 days that outperforms GPT (trained using 30x more compute) on the GLUE natural language understanding benchmark. Our approach also works well at scale, where it performs comparably to RoBERTa and XLNet while using less than 1/4 of their compute and outperforms them when using the same amount of compute.

蒸馏工作导致语言模型更紧凑，没有严重的性能下降。蒸馏的标准方法培训了针对两个目标的学生模型：特定于任务的目标（例如，语言建模）和模仿目标，并鼓励学生模型的隐藏状态与较大的教师模型类似。在本文中，我们表明，增强蒸馏有利于第三个目标，鼓励学生通过交换干预培训（IIT）来模仿教师的因果计算过程。 IIT推动学生模型成为教师模型的因果抽象 - 一种具有相同因果结构的更简单的模型。 IIT是完全可差异的，容易实施，并与其他目标灵活结合。与伯特标准蒸馏相比，通过IIT蒸馏导致维基百科（屏蔽语言建模）逐步困惑，并对胶水基准（自然语言理解），队（问题接听）和Conll-2003（命名实体识别）进行了改进。

Recent progress in pre-trained neural language models has significantly improved the performance of many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. In this paper we propose a new model architecture DeBERTa (Decoding-enhanced BERT with disentangled attention) that improves the BERT and RoBERTa models using two novel techniques. The first is the disentangled attention mechanism, where each word is represented using two vectors that encode its content and position, respectively, and the attention weights among words are computed using disentangled matrices on their contents and relative positions, respectively. Second, an enhanced mask decoder is used to incorporate absolute positions in the decoding layer to predict the masked tokens in model pre-training. In addition, a new virtual adversarial training method is used for fine-tuning to improve models' generalization. We show that these techniques significantly improve the efficiency of model pre-training and the performance of both natural language understand (NLU) and natural langauge generation (NLG) downstream tasks. Compared to RoBERTa-Large, a DeBERTa model trained on half of the training data performs consistently better on a wide range of NLP tasks, achieving improvements on MNLI by +0.9% (90.2% vs. 91.1%), on SQuAD v2.0 by +2.3% (88.4% vs. 90.7%) and RACE by +3.6% (83.2% vs. 86.8%). Notably, we scale up DeBERTa by training a larger version that consists of 48 Transform layers with 1.5 billion parameters. The significant performance boost makes the single DeBERTa model surpass the human performance on the SuperGLUE benchmark (Wang et al., 2019a) for the first time in terms of macro-average score (89.9 versus 89.8), and the ensemble DeBERTa model sits atop the SuperGLUE leaderboard as of January 6, 2021, outperforming the human baseline by a decent margin (90.3 versus 89.8). The pre-trained DeBERTa models and the source code were released at: https://github.com/microsoft/DeBERTa 1 .

Despite achieving state-of-the-art performance on many NLP tasks, the high energy cost and long inference delay prevent Transformer-based pretrained language models (PLMs) from seeing broader adoption including for edge and mobile computing. Efficient NLP research aims to comprehensively consider computation, time and carbon emission for the entire life-cycle of NLP, including data preparation, model training and inference. In this survey, we focus on the inference stage and review the current state of model compression and acceleration for pretrained language models, including benchmarks, metrics and methodology.

将最新的变压器模型蒸馏成轻量级的学生模型是降低推理时计算成本的有效方法。学生模型通常是紧凑的变压器，参数较少，而昂贵的操作（例如自我发项）持续存在。因此，对于实时或大量用例，提高的推理速度仍然不令人满意。在本文中，我们旨在通过将教师模型提炼成更大，更稀疏的学生模型来进一步推动推理速度的极限 - 更大的是它们扩展到数十亿个参数；稀疏，大多数模型参数是N-gram嵌入。我们对六个单词文本分类任务的实验表明，这些学生模型平均保留了罗伯塔大师教师表现的97％，同时推理时GPU和CPU的加速速度最高为600倍。进一步的调查表明，我们的管道也有助于句子对分类任务和域泛化设置。

对于许多任务，基于变压器的体系结构已经实现了最新的结果，从而导致实践从使用特定于任务的架构到预先训练的语言模型的微调。持续的趋势包括具有越来越多的数据和参数的培训模型，这需要大量资源。它导致了强有力的搜索，以提高基于仅针对英语评估的算法和硬件改进的算法和硬件改进。这引发了有关其可用性的疑问，当应用于小规模的学习问题时，对于资源不足的语言任务，有限的培训数据可用。缺乏适当尺寸的语料库是应用数据驱动和转移学习的方法的障碍。在本文中，我们建立了致力于基于变压器模型的可用性的最新努力，并建议评估这些改进的法语表现，而法语的效果很少。我们通过通过数据增强，超参数优化和跨语性转移来调查各种培训策略来解决与数据稀缺有关的不稳定。我们还为法国弗拉伯特（Fralbert）引入了一种新的紧凑型模型，该模型在低资源环境中被证明具有竞争力。

我们从任务特定的BERT基教师模型执行知识蒸馏（KD）基准到各种学生模型：Bilstm，CNN，Bert-Tiny，Bert-Mini和Bert-small。我们的实验涉及在两个任务中分组的12个数据集：印度尼西亚语言中的文本分类和序列标记。我们还比较蒸馏的各个方面，包括使用Word Embeddings和未标记的数据增强的使用。我们的实验表明，尽管基于变压器的模型的普及程度不断上升，但是使用Bilstm和CNN学生模型，与修剪的BERT模型相比，使用Bilstm和CNN学生模型提供了性能和计算资源（CPU，RAM和存储）之间的最佳权衡。我们进一步提出了一些快速胜利，通过涉及涉及丢失功能，Word Embeddings和未标记的数据准备的简单选择的高效KD培训机制来生产小型NLP模型。

We revisit the performance of the classic gradual magnitude pruning (GMP) baseline for large language models, focusing on the classic BERT benchmark on various popular tasks. Despite existing evidence in the literature that GMP performs poorly, we show that a simple and general variant, which we call GMP*, can match and sometimes outperform more complex state-of-the-art methods. Our results provide a simple yet strong baseline for future work, highlight the importance of parameter tuning for baselines, and even improve the performance of the state-of-the-art second-order pruning method in this setting.

鉴于将语言模型转移到NLP任务的成功，我们询问全BERT模型是否始终是最好的，并且它存在一个简单但有效的方法，可以在没有的最先进的深神经网络中找到获胜的票复杂的计算。我们构建了一系列基于BERT的模型，具有不同的大小，并对8个二进制分类任务进行比较。结果表明，真正存在的较小的子网比完整模型更好。然后我们提供进一步的研究，并提出一种简单的方法在微调之前适当地收缩斜率。一些扩展实验表明，我们的方法可以省略甚至没有准确性损失的时间和存储开销。

大型的预训练的语言模型成功地用于多种语言的各种任务中。随着这种不断增加的使用，有害副作用的风险也会上升，例如通过再现和加强刻板印象。但是，在解决多种语言或考虑不同的偏见时，发现和缓解这些危害通常很难做到，并且在计算上变得昂贵。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了Fairdistiltation：一种基于知识蒸馏的跨语性方法，可以在控制特定偏见的同时构建较小的语言模型。我们发现，我们的蒸馏方法不会对大多数任务的下游性能产生负面影响，并成功减轻刻板印象和代表性危害。我们证明，与替代方法相比，Fairdistillation可以以低得多的成本创建更公平的语言模型。

Transformer-based models have pushed state of the art in many areas of NLP, but our understanding of what is behind their success is still limited. This paper is the first survey of over 150 studies of the popular BERT model. We review the current state of knowledge about how BERT works, what kind of information it learns and how it is represented, common modifications to its training objectives and architecture, the overparameterization issue and approaches to compression. We then outline directions for future research.