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**October 23, 2019 - Update** We release **DistilRoBERTa**: 95% of `RoBERTa-base`'s performance on GLUE, twice as fast as RoBERTa while being 35% smaller.
**October 3, 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.**
**October 3, 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 supersedes 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.**
**September 19, 2019 - Update:** We fixed bugs in the code and released an upadted version of the weights trained with a modification of the distillation loss. DistilBERT now reaches 99% of `BERT-base`'s performance on GLUE, and 86.9 F1 score on SQuAD v1.1 dev set (compared to 88.5 for `BERT-base`). We will publish a formal write-up of our approach in the near future!
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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.
<sup>1</sup> We did not use the MNLI checkpoint for fine-tuning but directly perform transfer learning on the pre-trained DistilRoBERTa.
<sup>2</sup> Macro-score computed without WNLI.
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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 79.8 on the dev set (for comparison, Bert `bert-base-uncased` version reaches a 82.3 F1 score).
-`distilbert-base-uncased-distilled-squad`: A finetuned version of `distilbert-base-uncased` finetuned using (a second step of) knowledge distillation on SQuAD 1.0. This model reaches a F1 score of 79.8 on the dev set (for comparison, Bert `bert-base-uncased` version reaches a 82.3 F1 score).
-`distilbert-base-cased`: 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-cased` version of Bert. The model has 6 layers, 768 dimension and 12 heads, totalizing 65M parameters.
-`distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad`: A finetuned version of `distilbert-base-cased` finetuned using (a second step of) knwoledge distillation on SQuAD 1.0. This model reaches a F1 score of 87.1 on the dev set (for comparison, Bert `bert-base-cased` version reaches a 88.7 F1 score).
-`distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad`: A finetuned version of `distilbert-base-cased` finetuned using (a second step of) knowledge distillation on SQuAD 1.0. This model reaches a F1 score of 87.1 on the dev set (for comparison, Bert `bert-base-cased` version reaches a 88.7 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.
Our implementation of masked language modeling loss follows [XLM](https://github.com/facebookresearch/XLM)'s one and smoothes the probability of masking with a factor that put more emphasis on rare words. Thus we count the occurences of each tokens in the data:
Our implementation of masked language modeling loss follows [XLM](https://github.com/facebookresearch/XLM)'s one and smoothes the probability of masking with a factor that put more emphasis on rare words. Thus we count the occurrences of each tokens in the data:
