EMNLP 2022industry25 citations

Fast Vocabulary Transfer for Language Model Compression

Leonidas Gee, Andrea Zugarini, Leonardo Rigutini, Paolo Torroni

Abstract

Real-world business applications require a trade-off between language model performance and size. We propose a new method for model compression that relies on vocabulary transfer. We evaluate the method on various vertical domains and downstream tasks. Our results indicate that vocabulary transfer can be effectively used in combination with other compression techniques, yielding a significant reduction in model size and inference time while marginally compromising on performance.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{gee-etal-2022-fast,
    title = "Fast Vocabulary Transfer for Language Model Compression",
    author = "Gee, Leonidas  and
      Zugarini, Andrea  and
      Rigutini, Leonardo  and
      Torroni, Paolo",
    editor = "Li, Yunyao  and
      Lazaridou, Angeliki",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-industry.41/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-industry.41",
    pages = "409--416"
}
Fast Vocabulary Transfer for Language Model Compression · EMNLP 2022