Graphcore/distilbert-base-ipu

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Through HuggingFace Optimum, Graphcore released ready-to-use IPU-trained model checkpoints and IPU configuration files to make it easy to train models with maximum efficiency in the IPU. Optimum shortens the development lifecycle of your AI models by letting you plug-and-play any public dataset and allows a seamless integration to our State-of-the-art hardware giving you a quicker time-to-value for your AI project.

Model description

DistilBERT is a distilled version of BERT introduced in this paper.

Intended uses & limitations

This model contains just the IPUConfig files for running the DistilBERT base model (e.g. distilbert-base-uncased) on Graphcore IPUs.

This model contains no model weights, only an IPUConfig.

Usage

from optimum.graphcore import IPUConfig
ipu_config = IPUConfig.from_pretrained("Graphcore/distilbert-base-ipu")