Name: tinyroberta squad2
Author: deepset

Overview

TinyRoBERTa-SQuAD2 is a compact, distilled version of the RoBERTa architecture specifically fine-tuned for extractive question answering. Designed for developers who need a balance between inference speed and accuracy, this model is optimized for SQuAD 2.0, meaning it can handle both answerable questions and those where the answer is not present in the provided context. It is an ideal choice for edge deployments, low-latency API endpoints, or as a first-pass filter in larger RAG pipelines. Compared to full-sized BERT or RoBERTa models, it significantly reduces memory overhead and compute costs while maintaining competitive performance on short-to-medium context windows.

Highlights

Optimized for low-latency extractive question answering
Handles unanswerable questions via SQuAD 2.0 training
Small footprint ideal for edge and mobile deployment
Reduced compute costs compared to full RoBERTa
Easy integration via Hugging Face Transformers library

Usage

Install

# Install Hugging Face transformers
pip install transformers torch

SDK Usage

# Load model with transformers
from transformers import AutoModel, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModel.from_pretrained("deepset/tinyroberta-squad2")
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("deepset/tinyroberta-squad2")

Hugging Face Download

We recommend downloading the model via the Hugging Face CLI or Hub SDK.

Guidance：Before downloading, install huggingface_hub with:

Guidance

pip install -U huggingface_hub

CLI Download

Download the full repository

huggingface-cli download deepset/tinyroberta-squad2

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. config.json into ./dir)

huggingface-cli download deepset/tinyroberta-squad2 config.json --local-dir ./dir

See the official docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

# 模型下载
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('deepset/tinyroberta-squad2')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download

git lfs install
git clone https://huggingface.co/deepset/tinyroberta-squad2

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://huggingface.co/deepset/tinyroberta-squad2

Model files are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub — download directly via HF CLI / SDK / Git, not through this site.

PyTorch / Transformers Usage

Install Transformers

pip install -U transformers torch

Load the model and run inference

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained('deepset/tinyroberta-squad2')
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('deepset/tinyroberta-squad2')

Model Download

We recommend downloading the model via the ModelScope CLI or SDK.

Guidance：Before downloading, install ModelScope with:

Guidance

pip install modelscope

CLI Download

Download the full repository

modelscope download --model deepset/tinyroberta-squad2

Download a single file to a local folder (e.g. README.md into ./dir)

modelscope download --model deepset/tinyroberta-squad2 README.md --local_dir ./dir

See the docs for more CLI options

SDK Download

# 模型下载
from modelscope import snapshot_download
model_dir = snapshot_download('deepset/tinyroberta-squad2')

Git Download

Make sure git-lfs is installed first

Git Download

git lfs install
git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/deepset/tinyroberta-squad2.git

To skip LFS large-file downloads, use:

Skip LFS

GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone https://www.modelscope.cn/deepset/tinyroberta-squad2.git

ModelScope 模型页直接下载模型文件；无需将模型文件放在本站服务器。

Notebook Quickstart

Install the ModelScope library

pip install "modelscope[audio,cv,nlp,multi-modal,science]" -f https://modelscope.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/releases/repo.html

Load the model and run inference

from modelscope.pipelines import pipeline
from modelscope.utils.constant import Tasks

p = pipeline('text-generation', 'deepset/tinyroberta-squad2')

Full Documentation

来源: HuggingFace

---
language: en
license: cc-by-4.0
datasets:

squad_v2

model-index:

name: deepset/tinyroberta-squad2

results:
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad_v2
type: squad_v2
config: squad_v2
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 78.8627
name: Exact Match
verified: true
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- type: f1
value: 82.0355
name: F1
verified: true
verifyToken: eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJoYXNoIjoiOTFkMzEzMWNiZDRhMGZlODhkYzcwZTZiMDFjZDg2YjllZmUzYWM5NTgwNGQ2NGYyMDk2ZGQwN2JmMTE5NTc3YiIsInZlcnNpb24iOjF9.ChgaYpuRHd5WeDFjtiAHUyczxtoOD_M5WR8834jtbf7wXhdGOnZKdZ1KclmhoI5NuAGc1NptX-G0zQ5FTHEcBA
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad
type: squad
config: plain_text
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 83.860
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 90.752
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: adversarial_qa
type: adversarial_qa
config: adversarialQA
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 25.967
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 37.006
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squad_adversarial
type: squad_adversarial
config: AddOneSent
split: validation
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 76.329
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 83.292
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts amazon
type: squadshifts
config: amazon
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 63.915
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 78.395
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts new_wiki
type: squadshifts
config: new_wiki
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 80.297
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 89.808
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts nyt
type: squadshifts
config: nyt
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 80.149
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 88.321
name: F1
- task:
type: question-answering
name: Question Answering
dataset:
name: squadshifts reddit
type: squadshifts
config: reddit
split: test
metrics:
- type: exact_match
value: 66.959
name: Exact Match
- type: f1
value: 79.300
name: F1
---

tinyroberta for Extractive QA

This is the *distilled* version of the deepset/roberta-base-squad2 model. This model has a comparable prediction quality and runs at twice the speed of the base model.

Overview

Language model: tinyroberta-squad2 Language: English Downstream-task: Extractive QA Training data: SQuAD 2.0 Eval data: SQuAD 2.0 Code: See an example extractive QA pipeline built with Haystack Infrastructure: 4x Tesla v100

Hyperparameters

code

batch_size = 96
n_epochs = 4
base_LM_model = "deepset/tinyroberta-squad2-step1"
max_seq_len = 384
learning_rate = 3e-5
lr_schedule = LinearWarmup
warmup_proportion = 0.2
doc_stride = 128
max_query_length = 64
distillation_loss_weight = 0.75
temperature = 1.5
teacher = "deepset/robert-large-squad2"

Distillation

This model was distilled using the TinyBERT approach described in this paper and implemented in haystack. Firstly, we have performed intermediate layer distillation with roberta-base as the teacher which resulted in deepset/tinyroberta-6l-768d. Secondly, we have performed task-specific distillation with deepset/roberta-base-squad2 as the teacher for further intermediate layer distillation on an augmented version of SQuADv2 and then with deepset/roberta-large-squad2 as the teacher for prediction layer distillation.

Usage

In Haystack

Haystack is an AI orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications. You can use this model in Haystack to do extractive question answering on documents. To load and run the model with Haystack:

python

# After running pip install haystack-ai "transformers[torch,sentencepiece]"
from haystack import Document
from haystack.components.readers import ExtractiveReader
docs = [
    Document(content="Python is a popular programming language"),
    Document(content="python ist eine beliebte Programmiersprache"),
]
reader = ExtractiveReader(model="deepset/tinyroberta-squad2")
reader.warm_up()
question = "What is a popular programming language?"
result = reader.run(query=question, documents=docs)
{'answers': [ExtractedAnswer(query='What is a popular programming language?', score=0.5740374326705933, data='python', document=Document(id=..., content: '...'), context=None, document_offset=ExtractedAnswer.Span(start=0, end=6),...)]}

For a complete example with an extractive question answering pipeline that scales over many documents, check out the corresponding Haystack tutorial.

In Transformers

python

from transformers import AutoModelForQuestionAnswering, AutoTokenizer, pipeline
model_name = "deepset/tinyroberta-squad2"
a) Get predictions
nlp = pipeline('question-answering', model=model_name, tokenizer=model_name)
QA_input = {
    'question': 'Why is model conversion important?',
    'context': 'The option to convert models between FARM and transformers gives freedom to the user and let people easily switch between frameworks.'
}
res = nlp(QA_input)
b) Load model & tokenizer
model = AutoModelForQuestionAnswering.from_pretrained(model_name)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)

Performance

Evaluated on the SQuAD 2.0 dev set with the official eval script.

code

"exact": 78.69114798281817, "f1": 81.9198998536977,

"total": 11873, "HasAns_exact": 76.19770580296895, "HasAns_f1": 82.66446878592329, "HasAns_total": 5928, "NoAns_exact": 81.17746005046257, "NoAns_f1": 81.17746005046257, "NoAns_total": 5945

Authors

Branden Chan: [email protected] Timo Möller: [email protected] Malte Pietsch: [email protected] Tanay Soni: [email protected] Michel Bartels: [email protected]

About us

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