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# Model Card for MiniLM: 6 Layer Version
 
# Model Details
 
## Model Description
 
This is a 6 layer version of [microsoft/MiniLM-L12-H384-uncased](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MiniLM-L12-H384-uncased/) by keeping only every second layer.  
 
- **Developed by:** Nils Reimers
- **Shared by [Optional]:** Nils Reimers
- **Model type:** Feature Extraction 
- **Language(s) (NLP):** More information needed
- **License:** MIT 
- **Parent Model:** [microsoft/MiniLM-L12-H384-uncased](https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MiniLM-L12-H384-uncased/)
- **Resources for more information:** More information needed.
 	


# Uses
 

## Direct Use
This model can be used for the task of feature extraction.
 
## Downstream Use [Optional]
 
More information needed.
 
## Out-of-Scope Use
 
The model should not be used to intentionally create hostile or alienating environments for people. 
 
# Bias, Risks, and Limitations
 
 
Significant research has explored bias and fairness issues with language models (see, e.g., [Sheng et al. (2021)](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.330.pdf) and [Bender et al. (2021)](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922)). Predictions generated by the model may include disturbing and harmful stereotypes across protected classes; identity characteristics; and sensitive, social, and occupational groups.



## Recommendations
 
 
Users (both direct and downstream) should be made aware of the risks, biases and limitations of the model. More information needed for further recommendations.

# Training Details
 
## Training Data
 
More information needed 
 
## Training Procedure

 
### Preprocessing
 
More information needed 
 
 


 
### Speeds, Sizes, Times
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# Evaluation
 
 
## Testing Data, Factors & Metrics
 
### Testing Data
 
More information needed 
 
 
### Factors
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### Metrics
 
More information needed
 
 
## Results 
 
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# Model Examination
 
More information needed
 
# Environmental Impact
 
Carbon emissions can be estimated using the [Machine Learning Impact calculator](https://mlco2.github.io/impact#compute) presented in [Lacoste et al. (2019)](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09700).
 
- **Hardware Type:** More information needed
- **Hours used:** More information needed
- **Cloud Provider:** More information needed
- **Compute Region:** More information needed
- **Carbon Emitted:** More information needed
 
# Technical Specifications [optional]
 
## Model Architecture and Objective

More information needed 
 
## Compute Infrastructure
 
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### Hardware
 
 
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### Software
 
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# Citation

 
**BibTeX:**
 
 
```bibtex
@misc{wang2020minilm,
    title={MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers},
    author={Wenhui Wang and Furu Wei and Li Dong and Hangbo Bao and Nan Yang and Ming Zhou},
    year={2020},
    eprint={2002.10957},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}
```
 
 
 
 
# Glossary [optional]
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# More Information [optional]
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# Model Card Authors [optional]
 
Nils Reimers in collaboration with Ezi Ozoani and the Hugging Face team


# Model Card Contact
 
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# How to Get Started with the Model
 
Use the code below to get started with the model.
 
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<summary> Click to expand </summary>

```python
 from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("nreimers/MiniLM-L6-H384-uncased")

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("nreimers/MiniLM-L6-H384-uncased")
 ```
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