Efficient Transformer-based Large Scale Language Representations using Hardware-friendly Block Structured Pruning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08065v4
• Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 22:13:31 GMT
• Title: Efficient Transformer-based Large Scale Language Representations using Hardware-friendly Block Structured Pruning
• Authors: Bingbing Li, Zhenglun Kong, Tianyun Zhang, Ji Li, Zhengang Li, Hang Liu, Caiwen Ding
• Abstract summary: We propose an efficient transformer-based large-scale language representation using hardware-friendly block structure pruning. Besides the significantly reduced weight storage and computation, the proposed approach achieves high compression rates. It is suitable to deploy the final compressed model on resource-constrained edge devices.
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• Abstract: Pre-trained large-scale language models have increasingly demonstrated high accuracy on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, the limited weight storage and computational speed on hardware platforms have impeded the popularity of pre-trained models, especially in the era of edge computing. In this work, we propose an efficient transformer-based large-scale language representation using hardware-friendly block structure pruning. We incorporate the reweighted group Lasso into block-structured pruning for optimization. Besides the significantly reduced weight storage and computation, the proposed approach achieves high compression rates. Experimental results on different models (BERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT) on the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) benchmark tasks show that we achieve up to 5.0x with zero or minor accuracy degradation on certain task(s). Our proposed method is also orthogonal to existing compact pre-trained language models such as DistilBERT using knowledge distillation, since a further 1.79x average compression rate can be achieved on top of DistilBERT with zero or minor accuracy degradation. It is suitable to deploy the final compressed model on resource-constrained edge devices.

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