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DynaBERT: Dynamic BERT with Adaptive Width and Depth

NeurIPS 2020 · Architectures and efficiency › RNNs and normalization · approach: Neural scaling laws · 118 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
train sub-networks jointly in one width-adaptive model instead of separate networks (ablation)BERT-base · GLUE avgaccuracy: 77.6 -> 79.0Helped
add network rewiring by head/neuron importance (ablation)DynaBERT_W · GLUE avgaccuracy: 79.0 -> 81.4Helped
add knowledge distillation and data augmentation (ablation)DynaBERT_W · GLUE avgaccuracy: 81.4 -> 82.9Helped
use DynaBERT_W as teacher assistant vs direct distillation (ablation)DynaBERT · SST-2, CoLA, MRPCaccuracyHelped
width-adaptive first instead of depth-adaptive first (ablation)DynaBERT · GLUE CoLA dev 0.5xMatthews corr: 52.2 -> 56.7Helped
final fine-tuning on original data (ablation)DynaBERT · SST-2, CoLA, MRPCaccuracyMixed
inplace distillation instead of conventional (ablation)DynaBERT · SST-2, CoLA, MRPC, RTEaccuracyMixed
progressive rewiring or universally slimmable training (ablation)DynaBERT_W · GLUE avgaccuracy: 82.9 -> 81.6No clear effect
compress width vs depth by same multiplierDynaBERT · GLUE devaccuracyHelped

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