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---
language:
- en
thumbnail: https://github.com/karanchahal/distiller/blob/master/distiller.jpg
tags:
- question-answering
license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- squad
metrics:
- squad
---
# DistilBERT with a second step of distillation
## Model description
This model replicates the "DistilBERT (D)" model from Table 2 of the [DistilBERT paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.01108.pdf). In this approach, a DistilBERT student is fine-tuned on SQuAD v1.1, but with a BERT model (also fine-tuned on SQuAD v1.1) acting as a teacher for a second step of task-specific distillation.
In this version, the following pre-trained models were used:
* Student: `distilbert-base-uncased`
* Teacher: `lewtun/bert-base-uncased-finetuned-squad-v1`
## Training data
This model was trained on the SQuAD v1.1 dataset which can be obtained from the `datasets` library as follows:
```python
from datasets import load_dataset
squad = load_dataset('squad')
```
## Training procedure
## Eval results
| | Exact Match | F1 |
|------------------|-------------|------|
| DistilBERT paper | 79.1 | 86.9 |
| Ours | 78.4 | 86.5 |
The scores were calculated using the `squad` metric from `datasets`.
### BibTeX entry and citation info
```bibtex
@misc{sanh2020distilbert,
title={DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter},
author={Victor Sanh and Lysandre Debut and Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf},
year={2020},
eprint={1910.01108},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```