The DistilBERT model was proposed in the blog post Smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter: Introducing DistilBERT, adistilled version of BERT, and the paper DistilBERT, adistilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter. DistilBERT is a small, fast, cheap and light Transformer model trained by distilling BERT base. It has 40% less parameters than bert-base-uncased, runs 60% faster while preserving over 95% of BERT's performances as measured on the GLUE language understanding benchmark. This model is a fine-tune checkpoint of DistilBERT-base-uncased, fine-tuned using (a second step of) knowledge distillation on SQuAD v1.1. - See this repository for more about Distil\ (a class of…

