tinybert for Extractive QA
Overview
Language model: deepset/tinybert-6L-768D-squad2
Language: English
Training data: SQuAD 2.0 training set x 20 augmented + SQuAD 2.0 training set without augmentation
Eval data: SQuAD 2.0 dev set
Code: See an example extractive QA pipeline built with Haystack
Infrastructure: 1x V100 GPU
Published: Dec 8th, 2021
Details
- Haystack's intermediate layer and prediction layer distillation features were used for training (based on TinyBERT). deepset/bert-base-uncased-squad2 was used as the teacher model and huawei-noah/TinyBERT_General_6L_768D was used as the student model.
Hyperparameters
Intermediate layer distillation
batch_size = 26
n_epochs = 5
max_seq_len = 384
learning_rate = 5e-5
lr_schedule = LinearWarmup
embeds_dropout_prob = 0.1
temperature = 1
Prediction layer distillation
batch_size = 26
n_epochs = 5
max_seq_len = 384
learning_rate = 3e-5
lr_schedule = LinearWarmup
embeds_dropout_prob = 0.1
temperature = 1
distillation_loss_weight = 1.0
Usage
In Haystack
Haystack is an AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. You can use this model in Haystack to do extractive question answering on documents. To load and run the model with Haystack:
# After running pip install haystack-ai "transformers[torch,sentencepiece]"
from haystack import Document
from haystack.components.readers import ExtractiveReader
docs = [
Document(content="Python is a popular programming language"),
Document(content="python ist eine beliebte Programmiersprache"),
]
reader = ExtractiveReader(model="deepset/tinybert-6l-768d-squad2")
reader.warm_up()
question = "What is a popular programming language?"
result = reader.run(query=question, documents=docs)
# {'answers': [ExtractedAnswer(query='What is a popular programming language?', score=0.5740374326705933, data='python', document=Document(id=..., content: '...'), context=None, document_offset=ExtractedAnswer.Span(start=0, end=6),...)]}
For a complete example with an extractive question answering pipeline that scales over many documents, check out the corresponding Haystack tutorial.
In Transformers
from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
model_name = "deepset/tinybert-6l-768d-squad2"
# a) Get predictions
nlp = pipeline('question-answering', model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name)
QA_input = {
'question': 'Why is model conversion important?',
'context': 'The option to convert models between FARM and transformers gives freedom to the user and let people easily switch between frameworks.'
}
res = nlp(QA_input)
# b) Load model & tokenizer
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
Performance
"exact": 71.87736882001179
"f1": 76.36111895973675
Authors
- Timo Möller:
timo.moeller [at] deepset.ai - Julian Risch:
julian.risch [at] deepset.ai - Malte Pietsch:
malte.pietsch [at] deepset.ai - Michel Bartels:
michel.bartels [at] deepset.ai
About us
deepset is the company behind the production-ready open-source AI framework Haystack.
Some of our other work:
- Distilled roberta-base-squad2 (aka "tinyroberta-squad2")
- German BERT, GermanQuAD and GermanDPR, German embedding model
- deepset Cloud, deepset Studio
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