This is the distilled version of the deepset/roberta-base-squad2 model. This model has a comparable prediction quality and runs at twice the speed of the base model.
Language model: tinyroberta-squad2 Language: English Downstream-task: Extractive QA Training data: SQuAD 2.0 Eval data: SQuAD 2.0 Code: See an example extractive QA pipeline built with HaystackInfrastructure: 4x Tesla v100
This model was distilled using the TinyBERT approach described in this paper and implemented in haystack. Firstly, we have performed intermediate layer distillation with roberta-base as the teacher which resulted in deepset/tinyroberta-6l-768d. Secondly, we have performed task-specific distillation with deepset/roberta-base-squad2 as the teacher for further intermediate layer distillation on an augmented version of SQuADv2 and then with deepset/roberta-large-squad2 as the teacher for prediction layer distillation.
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/tinyroberta-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.
from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
model_name = "deepset/tinyroberta-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)
Branden Chan: branden.chan@deepset.ai Timo Möller: timo.moeller@deepset.ai Malte Pietsch: malte.pietsch@deepset.ai Tanay Soni: tanay.soni@deepset.ai Michel Bartels: michel.bartels@deepset.ai
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