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# DistilBERT
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## Overview
# DistilBERT
The DistilBERT model was proposed in the blog post [Smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter: Introducing DistilBERT, a
distilled version of BERT](https://medium.com/huggingface/distilbert-8cf3380435b5), and the paper [DistilBERT, a
distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01108). DistilBERT is a
small, fast, cheap and light Transformer model trained by distilling BERT base. It has 40% less parameters than
*google-bert/bert-base-uncased*, runs 60% faster while preserving over 95% of BERT's performances as measured on the GLUE language
understanding benchmark.
[DistilBERT](https://huggingface.co/papers/1910.01108) is pretrained by knowledge distillation to create a smaller model with faster inference and requires less compute to train. Through a triple loss objective during pretraining, language modeling loss, distillation loss, cosine-distance loss, DistilBERT demonstrates similar performance to a larger transformer language model.
The abstract from the paper is the following:
You can find all the original DistilBERT checkpoints under the [DistilBERT](https://huggingface.co/distilbert) organization.
*As Transfer Learning from large-scale pre-trained models becomes more prevalent in Natural Language Processing (NLP),
operating these large models in on-the-edge and/or under constrained computational training or inference budgets
remains challenging. In this work, we propose a method to pre-train a smaller general-purpose language representation
model, called DistilBERT, which can then be fine-tuned with good performances on a wide range of tasks like its larger
counterparts. While most prior work investigated the use of distillation for building task-specific models, we leverage
knowledge distillation during the pretraining phase and show that it is possible to reduce the size of a BERT model by
40%, while retaining 97% of its language understanding capabilities and being 60% faster. To leverage the inductive
biases learned by larger models during pretraining, we introduce a triple loss combining language modeling,
distillation and cosine-distance losses. Our smaller, faster and lighter model is cheaper to pre-train and we
demonstrate its capabilities for on-device computations in a proof-of-concept experiment and a comparative on-device
study.*
> [!TIP]
> Click on the DistilBERT models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply DistilBERT to different language tasks.
This model was contributed by [victorsanh](https://huggingface.co/victorsanh). This model jax version was
contributed by [kamalkraj](https://huggingface.co/kamalkraj). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers-research-projects/tree/main/distillation).
The example below demonstrates how to classify text with [`Pipeline`], [`AutoModel`], and from the command line.
## Usage tips
<hfoptions id="usage">
<hfoption id="Pipeline">
```py
from transformers import pipeline
classifier = pipeline(
task="text-classification",
model="distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device=0
)
result = classifier("I love using Hugging Face Transformers!")
print(result)
# Output: [{'label': 'POSITIVE', 'score': 0.9998}]
```
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="AutoModel">
```py
import torch
from transformers import AutoModelForSequenceClassification, AutoTokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
"distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english",
)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(
"distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english",
torch_dtype=torch.float16,
device_map="auto",
attn_implementation="sdpa"
)
inputs = tokenizer("I love using Hugging Face Transformers!", return_tensors="pt").to("cuda")
with torch.no_grad():
outputs = model(**inputs)
predicted_class_id = torch.argmax(outputs.logits, dim=-1).item()
predicted_label = model.config.id2label[predicted_class_id]
print(f"Predicted label: {predicted_label}")
```
</hfoption>
<hfoption id="transformers-cli">
```bash
echo -e "I love using Hugging Face Transformers!" | transformers-cli run --task text-classification --model distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english
```
</hfoption>
</hfoptions>
## Notes
- DistilBERT doesn't have `token_type_ids`, you don't need to indicate which token belongs to which segment. Just
separate your segments with the separation token `tokenizer.sep_token` (or `[SEP]`).
- DistilBERT doesn't have options to select the input positions (`position_ids` input). This could be added if
necessary though, just let us know if you need this option.
- Same as BERT but smaller. Trained by distillation of the pretrained BERT model, meaning it’s been trained to predict the same probabilities as the larger model. The actual objective is a combination of:
* finding the same probabilities as the teacher model
* predicting the masked tokens correctly (but no next-sentence objective)
* a cosine similarity between the hidden states of the student and the teacher model
### Using Scaled Dot Product Attention (SDPA)
PyTorch includes a native scaled dot-product attention (SDPA) operator as part of `torch.nn.functional`. This function
encompasses several implementations that can be applied depending on the inputs and the hardware in use. See the
[official documentation](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention.html)
or the [GPU Inference](https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/perf_infer_gpu_one#pytorch-scaled-dot-product-attention)
page for more information.
SDPA is used by default for `torch>=2.1.1` when an implementation is available, but you may also set
`attn_implementation="sdpa"` in `from_pretrained()` to explicitly request SDPA to be used.
```
from transformers import DistilBertModel
model = DistilBertModel.from_pretrained("distilbert-base-uncased", torch_dtype=torch.float16, attn_implementation="sdpa")
```
For the best speedups, we recommend loading the model in half-precision (e.g. `torch.float16` or `torch.bfloat16`).
On a local benchmark (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060-8GB, PyTorch 2.3.1, OS Ubuntu 20.04) with `float16` and the `distilbert-base-uncased` model with
a MaskedLM head, we saw the following speedups during training and inference.
#### Training
| num_training_steps | batch_size | seq_len | is cuda | Time per batch (eager - s) | Time per batch (sdpa - s) | Speedup (%) | Eager peak mem (MB) | sdpa peak mem (MB) | Mem saving (%) |
|--------------------|------------|---------|---------|----------------------------|---------------------------|-------------|---------------------|--------------------|----------------|
| 100 | 1 | 128 | False | 0.010 | 0.008 | 28.870 | 397.038 | 399.629 | -0.649 |
| 100 | 1 | 256 | False | 0.011 | 0.009 | 20.681 | 412.505 | 412.606 | -0.025 |
| 100 | 2 | 128 | False | 0.011 | 0.009 | 23.741 | 412.213 | 412.606 | -0.095 |
| 100 | 2 | 256 | False | 0.015 | 0.013 | 16.502 | 427.491 | 425.787 | 0.400 |
| 100 | 4 | 128 | False | 0.015 | 0.013 | 13.828 | 427.491 | 425.787 | 0.400 |
| 100 | 4 | 256 | False | 0.025 | 0.022 | 12.882 | 594.156 | 502.745 | 18.182 |
| 100 | 8 | 128 | False | 0.023 | 0.022 | 8.010 | 545.922 | 502.745 | 8.588 |
| 100 | 8 | 256 | False | 0.046 | 0.041 | 12.763 | 983.450 | 798.480 | 23.165 |
#### Inference
| num_batches | batch_size | seq_len | is cuda | is half | use mask | Per token latency eager (ms) | Per token latency SDPA (ms) | Speedup (%) | Mem eager (MB) | Mem BT (MB) | Mem saved (%) |
|-------------|------------|---------|---------|---------|----------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-------------|----------------|--------------|---------------|
| 50 | 2 | 64 | True | True | True | 0.032 | 0.025 | 28.192 | 154.532 | 155.531 | -0.642 |
| 50 | 2 | 128 | True | True | True | 0.033 | 0.025 | 32.636 | 157.286 | 157.482 | -0.125 |
| 50 | 4 | 64 | True | True | True | 0.032 | 0.026 | 24.783 | 157.023 | 157.449 | -0.271 |
| 50 | 4 | 128 | True | True | True | 0.034 | 0.028 | 19.299 | 162.794 | 162.269 | 0.323 |
| 50 | 8 | 64 | True | True | True | 0.035 | 0.028 | 25.105 | 160.958 | 162.204 | -0.768 |
| 50 | 8 | 128 | True | True | True | 0.052 | 0.046 | 12.375 | 173.155 | 171.844 | 0.763 |
| 50 | 16 | 64 | True | True | True | 0.051 | 0.045 | 12.882 | 172.106 | 171.713 | 0.229 |
| 50 | 16 | 128 | True | True | True | 0.096 | 0.081 | 18.524 | 191.257 | 191.517 | -0.136 |
## Resources
A list of official Hugging Face and community (indicated by 🌎) resources to help you get started with DistilBERT. If you're interested in submitting a resource to be included here, please feel free to open a Pull Request and we'll review it! The resource should ideally demonstrate something new instead of duplicating an existing resource.
<PipelineTag pipeline="text-classification"/>
- A blog post on [Getting Started with Sentiment Analysis using Python](https://huggingface.co/blog/sentiment-analysis-python) with DistilBERT.
- A blog post on how to [train DistilBERT with Blurr for sequence classification](https://huggingface.co/blog/fastai).
- A blog post on how to use [Ray to tune DistilBERT hyperparameters](https://huggingface.co/blog/ray-tune).
- A blog post on how to [train DistilBERT with Hugging Face and Amazon SageMaker](https://huggingface.co/blog/the-partnership-amazon-sagemaker-and-hugging-face).
- A notebook on how to [finetune DistilBERT for multi-label classification](https://colab.research.google.com/github/DhavalTaunk08/Transformers_scripts/blob/master/Transformers_multilabel_distilbert.ipynb). 🌎
- A notebook on how to [finetune DistilBERT for multiclass classification with PyTorch](https://colab.research.google.com/github/abhimishra91/transformers-tutorials/blob/master/transformers_multiclass_classification.ipynb). 🌎
- A notebook on how to [finetune DistilBERT for text classification in TensorFlow](https://colab.research.google.com/github/peterbayerle/huggingface_notebook/blob/main/distilbert_tf.ipynb). 🌎
- [`DistilBertForSequenceClassification`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/pytorch/text-classification) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/text_classification.ipynb).
- [`TFDistilBertForSequenceClassification`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/tensorflow/text-classification) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/text_classification-tf.ipynb).
- [`FlaxDistilBertForSequenceClassification`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/flax/text-classification) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/text_classification_flax.ipynb).
- [Text classification task guide](../tasks/sequence_classification)
<PipelineTag pipeline="token-classification"/>
- [`DistilBertForTokenClassification`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/pytorch/token-classification) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/token_classification.ipynb).
- [`TFDistilBertForTokenClassification`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/tensorflow/token-classification) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/token_classification-tf.ipynb).
- [`FlaxDistilBertForTokenClassification`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/flax/token-classification).
- [Token classification](https://huggingface.co/course/chapter7/2?fw=pt) chapter of the 🤗 Hugging Face Course.
- [Token classification task guide](../tasks/token_classification)
<PipelineTag pipeline="fill-mask"/>
- [`DistilBertForMaskedLM`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/pytorch/language-modeling#robertabertdistilbert-and-masked-language-modeling) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/language_modeling.ipynb).
- [`TFDistilBertForMaskedLM`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/tensorflow/language-modeling#run_mlmpy) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/language_modeling-tf.ipynb).
- [`FlaxDistilBertForMaskedLM`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/flax/language-modeling#masked-language-modeling) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/masked_language_modeling_flax.ipynb).
- [Masked language modeling](https://huggingface.co/course/chapter7/3?fw=pt) chapter of the 🤗 Hugging Face Course.
- [Masked language modeling task guide](../tasks/masked_language_modeling)
<PipelineTag pipeline="question-answering"/>
- [`DistilBertForQuestionAnswering`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/pytorch/question-answering) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/question_answering.ipynb).
- [`TFDistilBertForQuestionAnswering`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/tensorflow/question-answering) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/question_answering-tf.ipynb).
- [`FlaxDistilBertForQuestionAnswering`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/flax/question-answering).
- [Question answering](https://huggingface.co/course/chapter7/7?fw=pt) chapter of the 🤗 Hugging Face Course.
- [Question answering task guide](../tasks/question_answering)
**Multiple choice**
- [`DistilBertForMultipleChoice`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/pytorch/multiple-choice) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/multiple_choice.ipynb).
- [`TFDistilBertForMultipleChoice`] is supported by this [example script](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/tree/main/examples/tensorflow/multiple-choice) and [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/huggingface/notebooks/blob/main/examples/multiple_choice-tf.ipynb).
- [Multiple choice task guide](../tasks/multiple_choice)
⚗️ Optimization
- A blog post on how to [quantize DistilBERT with 🤗 Optimum and Intel](https://huggingface.co/blog/intel).
- A blog post on how [Optimizing Transformers for GPUs with 🤗 Optimum](https://www.philschmid.de/optimizing-transformers-with-optimum-gpu).
- A blog post on [Optimizing Transformers with Hugging Face Optimum](https://www.philschmid.de/optimizing-transformers-with-optimum).
⚡️ Inference
- A blog post on how to [Accelerate BERT inference with Hugging Face Transformers and AWS Inferentia](https://huggingface.co/blog/bert-inferentia-sagemaker) with DistilBERT.
- A blog post on [Serverless Inference with Hugging Face's Transformers, DistilBERT and Amazon SageMaker](https://www.philschmid.de/sagemaker-serverless-huggingface-distilbert).
🚀 Deploy
- A blog post on how to [deploy DistilBERT on Google Cloud](https://huggingface.co/blog/how-to-deploy-a-pipeline-to-google-clouds).
- A blog post on how to [deploy DistilBERT with Amazon SageMaker](https://huggingface.co/blog/deploy-hugging-face-models-easily-with-amazon-sagemaker).
- A blog post on how to [Deploy BERT with Hugging Face Transformers, Amazon SageMaker and Terraform module](https://www.philschmid.de/terraform-huggingface-amazon-sagemaker).
## Combining DistilBERT and Flash Attention 2
First, make sure to install the latest version of Flash Attention 2 to include the sliding window attention feature.
```bash
pip install -U flash-attn --no-build-isolation
```
Make also sure that you have a hardware that is compatible with Flash-Attention 2. Read more about it in the official documentation of flash-attn repository. Make also sure to load your model in half-precision (e.g. `torch.float16`)
To load and run a model using Flash Attention 2, refer to the snippet below:
```python
>>> import torch
>>> from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModel
>>> device = "cuda" # the device to load the model onto
>>> tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased')
>>> model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased", torch_dtype=torch.float16, attn_implementation="flash_attention_2")
>>> text = "Replace me by any text you'd like."
>>> encoded_input = tokenizer(text, return_tensors='pt').to(device)
>>> model.to(device)
>>> output = model(**encoded_input)
```
## DistilBertConfig