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  # Sparse BERT base model (uncased)
  
  Pretrained model pruned to 70% sparsity.
  The model is a pruned version of the [BERT base model](https://huggingface.co/bert-base-uncased).
  
  ## Intended Use
  
  The model can be used for fine-tuning to downstream tasks with sparsity already embeded to the model.
  To keep the sparsity a mask should be added to each sparse weight blocking the optimizer from updating the zeros.