[distillation] big update w/ new weights

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This folder contains the original code used to train DistilBERT as well as examples showcasing how to use DistilBERT.
**2019, September 19th - Update:** We fixed bugs in the code and released an upadted version of the weights trained with a modification of the distillation loss. DistilBERT now reaches 97% of `BERT-base`'s performance on GLUE, and 86.9 F1 score on SQuAD v1.1 dev set (compared to 88.5 for `BERT-base`). We will publish a formal write-up of our approach in the near future!
## What is DistilBERT
DistilBERT stands for Distillated-BERT. DistilBERT is a small, fast, cheap and light Transformer model based on Bert architecture. It has 40% less parameters than `bert-base-uncased`, runs 60% faster while preserving over 95% of Bert's performances as measured on the GLUE language understanding benchmark. DistilBERT is trained using knowledge distillation, a technique to compress a large model called the teacher into a smaller model called the student. By distillating Bert, we obtain a smaller Transformer model that bears a lot of similarities with the original BERT model while being lighter, smaller and faster to run. DistilBERT is thus an interesting option to put large-scaled trained Transformer model into production.
DistilBERT stands for Distillated-BERT. DistilBERT is a small, fast, cheap and light Transformer model based on Bert architecture. It has 40% less parameters than `bert-base-uncased`, runs 60% faster while preserving 97% of BERT's performances as measured on the GLUE language understanding benchmark. DistilBERT is trained using knowledge distillation, a technique to compress a large model called the teacher into a smaller model called the student. By distillating Bert, we obtain a smaller Transformer model that bears a lot of similarities with the original BERT model while being lighter, smaller and faster to run. DistilBERT is thus an interesting option to put large-scaled trained Transformer model into production.
For more information on DistilBERT, please refer to our [detailed blog post](https://medium.com/huggingface/smaller-faster-cheaper-lighter-introducing-distilbert-a-distilled-version-of-bert-8cf3380435b5
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). *Please note that we will publish a formal write-up with updated and more complete results in the near future (September 19th).*
Here's the updated results on the dev sets of GLUE:
| Model | Macro-score | CoLA | MNLI | MRPC | QNLI | QQP | RTE | SST-2 | STS-B | WNLI |
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| BERT-base | **77.6** | 48.9 | 84.3 | 88.6 | 89.3 | 89.5 | 71.3 | 91.7 | 91.2 | 43.7 |
| DistilBERT | **75.2** | 49.1 | 81.8 | 90.2 | 87.0 | 89.2 | 62.9 | 92.7 | 90.7 | 44.4 |
## Setup
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PyTorch-Transformers includes two pre-trained DistilBERT models, currently only provided for English (we are investigating the possibility to train and release a multilingual version of DistilBERT):
- `distilbert-base-uncased`: DistilBERT English language model pretrained on the same data used to pretrain Bert (concatenation of the Toronto Book Corpus and full English Wikipedia) using distillation with the supervision of the `bert-base-uncased` version of Bert. The model has 6 layers, 768 dimension and 12 heads, totalizing 66M parameters.
- `distilbert-base-uncased-distilled-squad`: A finetuned version of `distilbert-base-uncased` finetuned using (a second step of) knwoledge distillation on SQuAD 1.0. This model reaches a F1 score of 86.2 on the dev set (for comparison, Bert `bert-base-uncased` version reaches a 88.5 F1 score).
- `distilbert-base-uncased-distilled-squad`: A finetuned version of `distilbert-base-uncased` finetuned using (a second step of) knwoledge distillation on SQuAD 1.0. This model reaches a F1 score of 86.9 on the dev set (for comparison, Bert `bert-base-uncased` version reaches a 88.5 F1 score).
Using DistilBERT is very similar to using BERT. DistilBERT share the same tokenizer as BERT's `bert-base-uncased` even though we provide a link to this tokenizer under the `DistilBertTokenizer` name to have a consistent naming between the library models.