This folder contains the original code used to train Distil* as well as examples showcasing how to use DistilBERT, DistilRoBERTa and DistilGPT2.
**December 6th, 2019 - Update** We release **DistilmBERT**: 92% of `bert-base-multilingual-cased` on XNLI. The model supports 104 different languages listed [here](https://github.com/google-research/bert/blob/master/multilingual.md#list-of-languages).
**November 19th, 2019 - Update** We release German **DistilBERT**: 98.8% of `bert-base-german-dbmdz-cased` on NER tasks.
**October 23rd, 2019 - Update** We release **DistilRoBERTa**: 95% of `RoBERTa-base`'s performance on GLUE, twice as fast as RoBERTa while being 35% smaller.
**October 3rd, 2019 - Update** We release our [NeurIPS workshop paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01108) explaining our approach on **DistilBERT**. It includes updated results and further experiments. We applied the same method to GPT2 and release the weights of **DistilGPT2**. DistilGPT2 is two times faster and 33% smaller than GPT2. **The paper superseeds our [previous blogpost](https://medium.com/huggingface/distilbert-8cf3380435b5) with a different distillation loss and better performances. Please use the paper as a reference when comparing/reporting results on DistilBERT.**
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We have applied the same method to other Transformer architectures and released the weights:
- GPT2: on the [WikiText-103](https://blog.einstein.ai/the-wikitext-long-term-dependency-language-modeling-dataset/) benchmark, GPT2 reaches a perplexity on the test set of 15.0 compared to 18.5 for **DistilGPT2** (after fine-tuning on the train set).
- RoBERTa: **DistilRoBERTa** reaches 95% of `RoBERTa-base` performance on GLUE while being twice faster and 35% smaller.
- and more to come! 🤗🤗🤗
- RoBERTa: **DistilRoBERTa** reaches 95% of `RoBERTa-base`'s performance on GLUE while being twice faster and 35% smaller.
- German BERT: **German DistilBERT** reaches 99% of `bert-base-german-dbmdz-cased`'s performance on German NER (CoNLL-2003).
- Multilingual BERT: **DistilmBERT** reaches 92% of Multilingual BERT's performance on XNLI while being twice faster and 25% smaller. The model supports 104 languages listed [here](https://github.com/google-research/bert/blob/master/multilingual.md#list-of-languages).
For more information on DistilBERT, please refer to our [NeurIPS workshop paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01108).
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<sup>1</sup> We did not use the MNLI checkpoint for fine-tuning but directy perform transfer learning on the pre-trained DistilRoBERTa.
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<sup>3</sup> We compute this score ourselves for completeness.
Here are the results on the *test* sets for 6 of the languages available in XNLI. The results are computed in the zero shot setting (trained on the English portion and evaluated on the target language portion):
| Model | English | Spanish | Chinese | German | Arabic | Urdu |
This part of the library has only be tested with Python3.6+. There are few specific dependencies to install before launching a distillation, you can install them with the command `pip install -r requirements.txt`.
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## How to use DistilBERT
Transformers includes two pre-trained Distil* models, currently only provided for English (we are investigating the possibility to train and release a multilingual version of DistilBERT):
Transformers includes five pre-trained Distil* models, currently only provided for English and German (we are investigating the possibility to train and release a multilingual version of DistilBERT):
-`distilbert-base-uncased`: DistilBERT English language model pretrained on the same data used to pretrain Bert (concatenation of the Toronto Book Corpus and full English Wikipedia) using distillation with the supervision of the `bert-base-uncased` version of Bert. The model has 6 layers, 768 dimension and 12 heads, totalizing 66M parameters.
-`distilbert-base-uncased-distilled-squad`: A finetuned version of `distilbert-base-uncased` finetuned using (a second step of) knwoledge distillation on SQuAD 1.0. This model reaches a F1 score of 86.9 on the dev set (for comparison, Bert `bert-base-uncased` version reaches a 88.5 F1 score).
-`distilbert-base-german-cased`: DistilBERT German language model pretrained on 1/2 of the data used to pretrain Bert using distillation with the supervision of the `bert-base-german-dbmdz-cased` version of German DBMDZ Bert. For NER tasks the model reaches a F1 score of 83.49 on the CoNLL-2003 test set (for comparison, `bert-base-german-dbmdz-cased` reaches a 84.52 F1 score), and a F1 score of 85.23 on the GermEval 2014 test set (`bert-base-german-dbmdz-cased` reaches a 86.89 F1 score).
-`distilgpt2`: DistilGPT2 English language model pretrained with the supervision of `gpt2` (the smallest version of GPT2) on [OpenWebTextCorpus](https://skylion007.github.io/OpenWebTextCorpus/), a reproduction of OpenAI's WebText dataset. The model has 6 layers, 768 dimension and 12 heads, totalizing 82M parameters (compared to 124M parameters for GPT2). On average, DistilGPT2 is two times faster than GPT2.
-`distilroberta-base`: DistilRoBERTa English language model pretrained with the supervision of `roberta-base` solely on [OpenWebTextCorpus](https://skylion007.github.io/OpenWebTextCorpus/), a reproduction of OpenAI's WebText dataset (it is ~4 times less training data than the teacher RoBERTa). The model has 6 layers, 768 dimension and 12 heads, totalizing 82M parameters (compared to 125M parameters for RoBERTa-base). On average DistilRoBERTa is twice as fast as Roberta-base.
-and more to come! 🤗🤗🤗
-`distilbert-base-multilingual-cased`: DistilmBERT multilingual model pretrained with the supervision of `bert-base-multilingual-cased` on the concatenation of Wikipedia in 104 different languages. The model supports the 104 languages listed [here](https://github.com/google-research/bert/blob/master/multilingual.md#list-of-languages). The model has 6 layers, 768 dimension and 12 heads, totalizing 134M parameters (compared to 177M parameters for mBERT-base). On average DistilmBERT is twice as fast as mBERT-base.
Using DistilBERT is very similar to using BERT. DistilBERT share the same tokenizer as BERT's `bert-base-uncased` even though we provide a link to this tokenizer under the `DistilBertTokenizer` name to have a consistent naming between the library models.
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Similarly, using the other Distil* models simply consists in calling the base classes with a different pretrained checkpoint:
### Tuning hyperparameters for bag-of-words control
1. Increase `--stepsize` to intensify topic control, and decrease its value to soften the control. `--stepsize 0` recovers the original uncontrolled GPT-2 model.
2. If the language being generated is repetitive (For e.g. "science science experiment experiment"), there are several options to consider: </br>
a) Reduce the `--stepsize`</br>
b) Increase `--kl_scale` (the KL-loss coefficient) or decrease `--gm_scale` (the gm-scaling term) </br>
c) Add `--grad-length xx` where xx is an (integer <=length,e.g.`--grad-length30`).</br>
## PPLM-Discrim
### Example command for discriminator based sentiment control
### Tuning hyperparameters for discriminator control
1. Increase `--stepsize` to intensify topic control, and decrease its value to soften the control. `--stepsize 0` recovers the original uncontrolled GPT-2 model.
2. Use `--class_label 3` for negative, and `--class_label 2` for positive