4.4 KiB
This model was released on 2019-10-02 and added to Hugging Face Transformers on 2020-11-16.
DistilBERT
DistilBERT 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.
You can find all the original DistilBERT checkpoints under the DistilBERT organization.
Tip
Click on the DistilBERT models in the right sidebar for more examples of how to apply DistilBERT to different language tasks.
The example below demonstrates how to classify text with [Pipeline], [AutoModel], and from the command line.
from transformers import pipeline
classifier = pipeline(
task="text-classification",
model="distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english",
dtype=torch.float16,
device=0
)
result = classifier("I love using Hugging Face Transformers!")
print(result)
# Output: [{'label': 'POSITIVE', 'score': 0.9998}]
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",
dtype=torch.float16,
device_map="auto",
attn_implementation="sdpa"
)
inputs = tokenizer("I love using Hugging Face Transformers!", return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
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}")
echo -e "I love using Hugging Face Transformers!" | transformers run --task text-classification --model distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english
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 tokentokenizer.sep_token(or[SEP]). - DistilBERT doesn't have options to select the input positions (
position_idsinput). This could be added if necessary though, just let us know if you need this option.
DistilBertConfig
autodoc DistilBertConfig
DistilBertTokenizer
autodoc DistilBertTokenizer
DistilBertTokenizerFast
autodoc DistilBertTokenizerFast
DistilBertModel
autodoc DistilBertModel - forward
DistilBertForMaskedLM
autodoc DistilBertForMaskedLM - forward
DistilBertForSequenceClassification
autodoc DistilBertForSequenceClassification - forward
DistilBertForMultipleChoice
autodoc DistilBertForMultipleChoice - forward
DistilBertForTokenClassification
autodoc DistilBertForTokenClassification - forward
DistilBertForQuestionAnswering
autodoc DistilBertForQuestionAnswering - forward