Overview
The DistilBERT model was proposed in the blog post Smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter: Introducing DistilBERT, a
distilled version of BERT, and the paper DistilBERT, a
distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter. DistilBERT is a
small, fast, cheap and light Transformer model trained by distilling BERT base. It has 40% less parameters than
bert-base-uncased, runs 60% faster while preserving over 95% of BERT's performances as measured on the GLUE language
understanding benchmark.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
As Transfer Learning from large-scale pre-trained models becomes more prevalent in Natural Language Processing (NLP),
operating these large models in on-the-edge and/or under constrained computational training or inference budgets
remains challenging. In this work, we propose a method to pre-train a smaller general-purpose language representation
