Small Language Models
Small Language Models (SLMs) are compact versions of language models designed to perform specific tasks efficiently with fewer computational resources compared to their larger counterparts.
DistilBERT— a distilled version ofBERT, designed to be smaller, faster, and more efficient while retaining much of the language understanding capability of the original modelTinyBERT— another distilled version ofBERT, optimized for efficiency and particularly useful for tasks requiring quick inference timesALBERT(A Lite BERT) — a more efficient version ofBERTthat uses parameter-sharing techniques to reduce model size and improve training efficiencyMobileBERT— optimized for mobile devices, providing a balance between model size and performance for on-device applicationsMiniLM— a series of compact language models developed by Microsoft, designed to be lightweight and efficient for various NLP tasksGPT-2 Small— a smaller version of theGPT-2model, offering a good balance between performance and computational efficiencyELECTRA Small— a smaller variant of theELECTRAmodel, designed to be more efficient by using a replaced token detection objectiveT5 Small— a compact version of the Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer (T5), which frames all NLP tasks as a text-to-text problem