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language: en
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name: Question Answering
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# tinyroberta-squad2
This is the *distilled* version of the [deepset/roberta-base-squad2](https://huggingface.co/deepset/roberta-base-squad2) model. This model has a comparable prediction quality and runs at twice the speed of the base model.
## Overview
**Language model:** tinyroberta-squad2
**Language:** English
**Downstream-task:** Extractive QA
**Training data:** SQuAD 2.0
**Eval data:** SQuAD 2.0
**Code:** See [an example QA pipeline on Haystack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/tutorials/first-qa-system)
**Infrastructure**: 4x Tesla v100
## Hyperparameters
```
batch_size = 96
n_epochs = 4
base_LM_model = "deepset/tinyroberta-squad2-step1"
max_seq_len = 384
learning_rate = 3e-5
lr_schedule = LinearWarmup
warmup_proportion = 0.2
doc_stride = 128
max_query_length = 64
distillation_loss_weight = 0.75
temperature = 1.5
teacher = "deepset/robert-large-squad2"
```
## Distillation
This model was distilled using the TinyBERT approach described in [this paper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.10351.pdf) and implemented in [haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack).
Firstly, we have performed intermediate layer distillation with roberta-base as the teacher which resulted in [deepset/tinyroberta-6l-768d](https://huggingface.co/deepset/tinyroberta-6l-768d).
Secondly, we have performed task-specific distillation with [deepset/roberta-base-squad2](https://huggingface.co/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](https://huggingface.co/deepset/roberta-large-squad2) as the teacher for prediction layer distillation.
## Usage
### In Haystack
Haystack is an NLP framework by deepset. You can use this model in a Haystack pipeline to do question answering at scale (over many documents). To load the model in [Haystack](https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/):
```python
reader = FARMReader(model_name_or_path="deepset/tinyroberta-squad2")
# or
reader = TransformersReader(model_name_or_path="deepset/tinyroberta-squad2")
```
### In Transformers
```python
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)
```
## Performance
Evaluated on the SQuAD 2.0 dev set with the [official eval script](https://worksheets.codalab.org/rest/bundles/0x6b567e1cf2e041ec80d7098f031c5c9e/contents/blob/).
```
"exact": 78.69114798281817,
"f1": 81.9198998536977,
"total": 11873,
"HasAns_exact": 76.19770580296895,
"HasAns_f1": 82.66446878592329,
"HasAns_total": 5928,
"NoAns_exact": 81.17746005046257,
"NoAns_f1": 81.17746005046257,
"NoAns_total": 5945
```
## Authors
**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
## About us
[deepset](http://deepset.ai/) is the company behind the open-source NLP framework [Haystack](https://haystack.deepset.ai/) which is designed to help you build production ready NLP systems that use: Question answering, summarization, ranking etc.
Some of our other work:
- [roberta-base-squad2]([https://huggingface.co/deepset/roberta-base-squad2)
- [German BERT (aka "bert-base-german-cased")](https://deepset.ai/german-bert)
- [GermanQuAD and GermanDPR datasets and models (aka "gelectra-base-germanquad", "gbert-base-germandpr")](https://deepset.ai/germanquad)
## Get in touch and join the Haystack community
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