2024
VE-KD: Vocabulary-Expansion Knowledge-Distillation for Training Smaller Domain-Specific Language Models
EMNLP 2024finding
We propose VE-KD, a novel method that balances knowledge distillation and vocabulary expansion with the aim of training efficient domain-specific language models. Compared with traditional pre-training approaches, VE-KD exhibits competitive performance in downstream tasks while reducing model size a…