Mengzi: Towards Lightweight yet Ingenious Pre-trained Models for Chinese

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.06696v2
• Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:20 GMT
• Title: Mengzi: Towards Lightweight yet Ingenious Pre-trained Models for Chinese
• Authors: Zhuosheng Zhang, Hanqing Zhang, Keming Chen, Yuhang Guo, Jingyun Hua, Yulong Wang, Ming Zhou
• Abstract summary: Mengzi stands for a family of discriminative, generative, domain-specific, and multimodal pre-trained model variants. Compared with public Chinese PLMs, Mengzi is simple but more powerful. Our lightweight model has achieved new state-of-the-art results on the widely-used CLUE benchmark.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Although pre-trained models (PLMs) have achieved remarkable improvements in a wide range of NLP tasks, they are expensive in terms of time and resources. This calls for the study of training more efficient models with less computation but still ensures impressive performance. Instead of pursuing a larger scale, we are committed to developing lightweight yet more powerful models trained with equal or less computation and friendly to rapid deployment. This technical report releases our pre-trained model called Mengzi, which stands for a family of discriminative, generative, domain-specific, and multimodal pre-trained model variants, capable of a wide range of language and vision tasks. Compared with public Chinese PLMs, Mengzi is simple but more powerful. Our lightweight model has achieved new state-of-the-art results on the widely-used CLUE benchmark with our optimized pre-training and fine-tuning techniques. Without modifying the model architecture, our model can be easily employed as an alternative to existing PLMs. Our sources are available at https://github.com/Langboat/Mengzi.

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