Open-weight model · Question answering
distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad
by Joshua Xenova/distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad
https://huggingface.co/distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad with ONNX weights to be compatible with Transformers.js.
Parameters—
Context512
Weights890.4 MB
License—
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads1.6k
Model Card
https://huggingface.co/distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad with ONNX weights to be compatible with Transformers.js. If you haven't already, you can install the Transformers.js JavaScript library from NPM using: Note: Having a separate repo for ONNX weights is intended to be a temporary solution until WebML gains more traction. If you would like to make your models web-ready, we recommend converting to ONNX using Optimum and structuring your repo like this one (with ONNX weights located in a subfolder named onnx).
Excerpt from the card by Joshua.
Configuration
- Architecture
- DistilBertForQuestionAnswering
- Context length (tokens)
- 512
- Vocabulary size
- 28,996
- Model type
- distilbert
Identity and Version
- Repository
- Xenova/distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad
- Publisher
- Joshua
- Task
- Question answering
- Modality
- Text
- Library
- transformers.js
- Parameters
- Not stated by the source
- Languages
- Not stated by the source
- Revision
- bdbb0a5e9c617c3c7ea9f3cbaf2be3ad871bcd7d
- First published
- 2023-05-02
- Last updated
- 2025-07-11
Files and Weights
15 files, 891.3 MB in total. The weights are 8 files totalling 890.4 MB in onnx.
Weights8 files · 890.4 MB
Configuration2 files · 694 B
Tokenizer3 files · 882.7 KB
Documentation1 file · 1.2 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
| File | Type | Size | SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| onnx/model.onnx | Weights | 260.9 MB | 02086cd2f9c4 |
| onnx/model_bnb4.onnx | Weights | 114.9 MB | 28094b5df5b2 |
| onnx/model_fp16.onnx | Weights | 130.6 MB | 35b9c47294fe |
| onnx/model_int8.onnx | Weights | 65.6 MB | e572df4912fd |
| onnx/model_q4.onnx | Weights | 117.6 MB | 8a1e0d82fe44 |
| onnx/model_q4f16.onnx | Weights | 69.5 MB | 9aada1202c05 |
| onnx/model_quantized.onnx | Weights | 65.8 MB | fb134f63a53c |
| onnx/model_uint8.onnx | Weights | 65.6 MB | ec575836e440 |
| config.json | Configuration | 569 B | — |
| special_tokens_map.json | Configuration | 125 B | — |
| README.md | Documentation | 1.2 KB | — |
| .gitattributes | Repository | 1.5 KB | — |
| tokenizer.json | Tokenizer | 668.9 KB | — |
| tokenizer_config.json | Tokenizer | 321 B | — |
| vocab.txt | Tokenizer | 213.4 KB | — |
License and Download
- License
- Not stated by the source
- Access
- Open weights, no gate
- Download size
- 890.4 MB
Download from Joshua
Released by Joshua through its official repository on Hugging Face.
Built From
- Derived from distilbert/distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad
- Quantized from distilbert/distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad
Memory Requirements
| Precision | Weights in memory |
|---|---|
| As published | 890.4 MB |
Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.
Questions About distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad
What is distilbert-base-cased-distilled-squad's context length?
512 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.
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