The large number of parameters of some prominent language models, such as BERT, makes their fine-tuning on downstream tasks computationally intensive and energy hungry.
Previously researchers were focused on lower bit-width integer data types for the forward propagation of language models to save memory and computation.
As for the backward propagation, however, only 16-bit floating-point data type has been used for the fine-tuning of BERT.
In this work, we use integer arithmetic for both forward and back propagation in the fine-tuning of BERT.
We study the effects of varying the integer bit-width on the model's metric performance.
Our integer fine-tuning uses integer arithmetic to perform forward propagation and gradient computation of linear, layer-norm, and embedding layers of BERT.
We fine-tune BERT using our integer training method on SQuAD v1.1 and SQuAD v2., and GLUE benchmark.
We demonstrate that metric performance of fine-tuning 16-bit integer BERT matches both 16-bit and 32-bit floating-point baselines.
Furthermore, using the faster and more memory efficient 8-bit integer data type, integer fine-tuning of BERT loses an average of 3.1 points compared to the FP32 baseline.

Towards Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models with Integer Forward and Backward Propagation

We evaluate the performance of KroneckerBERT on well-known NLP benchmarks. We show that our KroneckerBERT with compression factors of 7.7x and 21x outperforms state-of-the-art compression methods on the GLUE and SQuAD benchmarks. In particular, using only 13% of the teacher model parameters, it retain more than 99% of the accuracy on the majority of GLUE tasks.

KroneckerBERT: Significant Compression of Pre-trained Language Models Through Kronecker Decomposition and Knowledge Distillation

GPT is an auto-regressive Transformer-based pre-trained language model which has attracted a lot of attention in the natural language processing (NLP) domain. The success of GPT is mostly attributed to its pre-training on huge amount of data and its large number of parameters. Despite the superior performance of GPT, this overparameterized nature of GPT can be very prohibitive for deploying this model on devices with limited computational power or memory. This problem can be mitigated using model compression techniques; however, compressing GPT models has not been investigated much in the literature. In this work, we use Kronecker decomposition to compress the linear mappings of the GPT-2 model. Our Kronecker
GPT-2 model (KnGPT2) is initialized based on the Kronecker decomposed version of the GPT2 model and then is undergone a very light pretraining on only a small portion of the training data with intermediate layer knowledge distillation (ILKD). Finally, our KnGPT2 is fine-tuned on downstream tasks using ILKD as well. We evaluate our model on both language modeling and General Language Understanding Evaluation benchmark tasks and show that with more efficient pre training and similar number of parameters, our KnGPT2 outperforms the existing DistilGPT2 model significantly.

Kronecker Decomposition for GPT Compression

Modern Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architectures, despite their superiority in solving various problems, are generally too large to be deployed on resource constrained edge devices. In this paper, we reduce memory usage and floating-point operations required by convolutional layers in CNNs. We compress these layers by generalizing the Kronecker Product Decomposition to apply to multidimensional tensors, leading to the Generalized Kronecker Product Decomposition (GKPD). Our approach yields a plug-and-play module that can be used as a drop-in replacement for any convolutional layer. Experimental results for image classification on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets using ResNet, MobileNetv2 and SeNet architectures substantiate the effectiveness of our proposed approach. We find that GKPD outperforms state-of-the-art decomposition methods including Tensor-Train and Tensor-Ring as well as other relevant compression methods such as pruning and knowledge distillation.

Convolutional Neural Network Compression Through Generalized Kronecker Product Decomposition

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Towards Fine-tuning Pre-trained Language Models with Integer Forward and Backward Propagation

KroneckerBERT: Significant Compression of Pre-trained Language Models Through Kronecker Decomposition and Knowledge Distillation

Kronecker Decomposition for GPT Compression

Convolutional Neural Network Compression Through Generalized Kronecker Product Decomposition

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