Benchmark section added to the documentation

docs/source/benchmarks.md

+# Benchmarks
+
+This section is dedicated to the Benchmarks done by the library, both by maintainers, contributors and users. These 
+benchmark will help keep track of the preformance improvements that are brought to our models across versions.
+
+## Benchmarking all models for inference
+
+As of version 2.1 we have benchmarked all models for inference, across many different settings: using PyTorch, with
+and without TorchScript, using TensorFlow, with and without XLA. All of those tests were done across CPUs (except for
+TensorFlow XLA) and GPUs.
+
+The approach is detailed in the [following blogpost](https://medium.com/huggingface/benchmarking-transformers-pytorch-and-tensorflow-e2917fb891c2)
+
+The results are available [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sryqufw2D0XlUH4sq3e9Wnxu5EAQkaohzrJbd5HdQ_w/edit?usp=sharing).
+
+## TF2 with mixed precision, XLA, Distribution (@tlkh)
+
+This work was done by [Timothy Liu](https://github.com/tlkh).
+
+There are very positive results to be gained from the various TensorFlow 2.0 features:
+
+- Automatic Mixed Precision (AMP)
+- XLA compiler
+- Distribution strategies (multi-GPU)
+
+The benefits are listed here (tested on CoLA, MRPC, SST-2):
+
+- AMP: Between 1.4x to 1.6x decrease in overall time without change in batch size
+- AMP+XLA: Up to 2.5x decrease in overall time on SST-2 (larger dataset)
+- Distribution: Between 1.4x to 3.4x decrease in overall time on 4xV100
+- Combined: Up to 5.7x decrease in overall training time, or 9.1x training throughput
+
+The model quality (measured by the validation accuracy) fluctuates slightly. Taking an average of 4 training runs 
+on a single GPU gives the following results:
+
+- CoLA: AMP results in slighter lower acc (0.820 vs 0.824)
+- MRPC: AMP results in lower acc (0.823 vs 0.835)
+- SST-2: AMP results in slighter lower acc (0.918 vs 0.922)
+
+However, in a distributed setting with 4xV100 (4x batch size), AMP can yield in better results:
+
+CoLA: AMP results in higher acc (0.828 vs 0.812)
+MRPC: AMP results in lower acc (0.817 vs 0.827)
+SST-2: AMP results in slightly lower acc (0.926 vs 0.929)
+
+The benchmark script is available [here](https://github.com/NVAITC/benchmarking/blob/master/tf2/bert_dist.py).
+
+Note: on some tasks (e.g. MRPC), the dataset is too small. The overhead due to the model compilation with XLA as well
+as the distribution strategy setup does not speed things up. The XLA compile time is also the reason why although throughput 
+can increase a lot (e.g. 2.7x for single GPU), overall (end-to-end) training speed-up is not as fast (as low as 1.4x)
+
+The benefits as seen on SST-2 (larger dataset) is much clear.
+
+All results can be seen on this [Google Sheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1538MN224EzjbRL239sqSiUy6YY-rAjHyXhTzz_Zptls/edit#gid=960868445).

docs/source/index.rst

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     bertology
     torchscript
     multilingual
+    benchmarks
 
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