Overview

Language model: deepset/roberta-base-squad2-distilled Language: English Training data: SQuAD 2.0 training set Eval data: SQuAD 2.0 dev set Infrastructure : 4x V100 GPU Published : Dec 8th, 2021

Details

• haystack's distillation feature was used for training. deepset/roberta-large-squad2 was used as the teacher model.

Hyperparameters

batch_size = 80
n_epochs = 4
max_seq_len = 384
learning_rate = 3e-5
lr_schedule = LinearWarmup
embeds_dropout_prob = 0.1
temperature = 1.5
distillation_loss_weight = 0.75

Performance

"exact": 79.8366040596311
"f1": 83.916407079888

Authors

Timo Möller: timo.moeller@deepset.ai Julian Risch: julian.risch@deepset.ai Malte Pietsch: malte.pietsch@deepset.ai Michel Bartels: michel.bartels@deepset.ai

About us

deepset is the company behind the open-source NLP framework Haystack which is designed to help you build production ready NLP systems that use: Question answering, summarization, ranking etc.

Some of our other work:

• Distilled roberta-base-squad2 (aka "tinyroberta-squad2")
• German BERT (aka "bert-base-german-cased")
• GermanQuAD and GermanDPR datasets and models (aka "gelectra-base-germanquad", "gbert-base-germandpr")

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