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dynamic_tinybert

Dynamic-TinyBERT is a BERT question-answering fine-tune from Intel. According to the model card, it was trained on SQuAD 1.1 for efficient extractive QA with dynamic sequence-length reduction.

Publisher
Intel
Task
question-answering
Model type
bert
License
apache-2.0
Library
transformers
Publication status
Accepted · not indexed

Model overview

Dynamic-TinyBERT is published by Intel as a bert-based question-answering model. The captured configuration identifies TinyBertForQuestionAnswering, with card data recording apache-2.0. According to the model card, it is a TinyBERT model fine-tuned on SQuAD 1.1 using the TinyBERT6L layout for faster inference at near-BERT accuracy.

Recorded capabilities

SQuAD 1.1 QA fine-tune

According to the model card, Dynamic-TinyBERT was fine-tuned for question answering on SQuAD 1.1, finding answer spans in a given passage.

Dynamic sequence-length design

According to the model card, the model uses sequence-length reduction with hyperparameter optimization, built on the TinyBERT6L layout of 6 layers, 768 hidden size, and 12 heads.

Publisher-reported efficiency

According to the model card, the publisher reports up to 3.3x speedup within 1% of BERT and max F1 88.71 for the full model.

Transformers QA record

The record lists the transformers library with question-answering, bert, and endpoints-compatible tags, plus English and SQuAD dataset markers.

Apache-2.0 licensing

Card data records apache-2.0 for this repository.

Use cases in the source record

  • Extractive question answering that locates an answer span in a supplied passage through the documented transformers workflow.
  • Efficiency-sensitive QA research using the publisher-reported accuracy-speedup tradeoff of up to 3.3x within 1% of BERT.

Limitations and unknowns

  • No independently verified evaluation results were extracted; F1 and speedup figures are publisher-reported.
  • No structured parameter count was extracted from this record.
  • Provider state is historical snapshot data, not independently refreshed current availability.
  • Training, corpus, and hardware notes come from a 2021 publisher model card and were not independently verified by Ethen.

Source and provenance

Source: Intel/dynamic_tinybert

Captured: Unknown. Processed: 2026-09-07T19:34:31.863883+00:00.

Model Details: Dynamic-TinyBERT: Boost TinyBERT's Inference Efficiency by Dynamic Sequence Length Dynamic-TinyBERT has been fine-tuned for the NLP task of question answering, trained on the SQuAD 1.1 dataset. Guskin et al. (2021) note: Dynamic-TinyBERT is a TinyBERT model that utilizes sequence-length reduction and Hyperparameter Optimization for enhanced inference efficiency per any computational budget. Dynamic-TinyBERT is trained only once, performing on-par with BERT and achieving an accuracy-speedup trade-off superior to any other efficient approaches (up to 3.3x with <1% loss-drop). Model Detail Description Model Authors - Com…

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