Module rust_bert::distilbert

DistilBERT, a distilled version of BERT: smaller, faster, cheaper and lighter (Sanh et al.)

Implementation of the DistilBERT language model (https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01108 Sanh, Debut, Chaumond, Wolf, 2019). The base model is implemented in the distilbert::DistilBertModel struct. Several language model heads have also been implemented, including:

• Masked language model: distilbert::DistilBertForMaskedLM
• Question answering: distilbert::DistilBertForQuestionAnswering
• Sequence classification: distilbert::DistilBertForSequenceClassification
• Token classification (e.g. NER, POS tagging): distilbert::DistilBertForTokenClassification

Model set-up and pre-trained weights loading

A full working example is provided in examples/distilbert_masked_lm.rs, run with cargo run --example distilbert_masked_lm. The example below illustrate a DistilBERT Masked language model example, the structure is similar for other models. All models expect the following resources:

• Configuration file expected to have a structure following the Transformers library
• Model weights are expected to have a structure and parameter names following the Transformers library. A conversion using the Python utility scripts is required to convert the .bin weights to the .ot format.
• BertTokenizer using a vocab.txt vocabulary

use rust_tokenizers::BertTokenizer;
use tch::{nn, Device};
use rust_bert::Config;
use rust_bert::distilbert::{DistilBertModelMaskedLM, DistilBertConfig};

let device = Device::cuda_if_available();
let mut vs = nn::VarStore::new(device);
let tokenizer: BertTokenizer = BertTokenizer::from_file(vocab_path.to_str().unwrap(), true);
let config = DistilBertConfig::from_file(config_path);
let bert_model = DistilBertModelMaskedLM::new(&vs.root(), &config);
vs.load(weights_path)?;

Structs

DistilBertConfig	DistilBERT model configuration
DistilBertForQuestionAnswering	DistilBERT for question answering
DistilBertForTokenClassification	DistilBERT for token classification (e.g. NER, POS)
DistilBertModel	DistilBERT Base model
DistilBertModelClassifier	DistilBERT for sequence classification
DistilBertModelMaskedLM	DistilBERT for masked language model

Enums

Activation

Activation function used in the feed-forward layer in the transformer blocks