Optimizing BERT and Natural Language Models with SigOpt Experiment Management

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SigOpt Machine Learning Engineer Meghana Ravikumar explains how she reduced the size of a BERT natural language model trained on the SQUAD 2.0 question-answer database, to reduce its size while maintaining performance using a "distillation" process optimized with SigOpt's Experiment Management functionality.

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Why is Experiment Management
important for NLP?

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First, a quick overview of the
problem

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Two main questions
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Can we understand the
trade-offs made during
model compression?
Can we find a model
architecture that fits our
needs?

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The Data: SQUAD 2.0
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SQUAD 2.0

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Distilling BERT for Question Answering
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BERT
Pre-trained for language
modeling
Student Model
SQUAD 2.0
SQUAD 2.0
Soft
target
loss
Hard
target
loss
BERT
Fine-tuned for SQUAD 2.0
Trained Student Model
For more on distillation: Hinton et al 2015, DistilBERT

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Multimetric Bayesian Optimization
Optimizing for two competing metrics
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SigOpt’s Multimetric Optimization

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Experiment Management was critical
throughout this process

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Experiment management was critical for
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Model Development
Understanding the Problem
Space
Monitoring Long Cycles

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Establishing a Baseline
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BERT
Pre-trained for language
modeling
Student Model
SQUAD 2.0
SQUAD 2.0
Soft
target
loss
Hard
target
loss
BERT
Fine-tuned for SQUAD 2.0
Trained Student Model
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Establishing a Baseline: Training from scratch
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BERT
Pre-trained for language
modeling
DistilBERT
SQUAD 2.0
SQUAD 2.0
Standard
soft target
loss
Standard
hard
target
loss
BERT
Fine-tuned for SQUAD 2.0
Trained Model
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Baseline #1: Trained from scratch
Dashboard link

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Establishing a Baseline: Warm starting the model
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BERT
Pre-trained for language
modeling
DistilBERT
SQUAD 2.0
SQUAD 2.0
Standard soft
target loss
Standard
Hard target
loss
BERT
Fine-tuned for SQUAD 2.0
Trained Model
DistilBERT
Pre-trained for language
modeling
Pretrained Weights
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?

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Baseline #2: Pretrained weights
Dashboard link

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Understanding the problem space

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Running HPO to understand the problem space
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Let’s take a look at the experiment
dashboard

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Correlations in the parameter space
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Exploring speciﬁc parameter areas
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Runs dashboard

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Taking data properties into account
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Providing feedback to the optimizer
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Monitoring the full experiment

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Monitoring the full experiment
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Run dashboard

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SigOpt found dozens of viable models
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Baseline Exact
Baseline
Size
Metric Threshold

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How did experiment management
help throughout my process?

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Model Development
Understanding the
Problem Space
Monitoring Long Cycles
Experiment Validation
Experiment design and
exploring the
parameter space
Tracking and
Debugging

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So why Experiment Management?
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This document summarizes work using Bayesian optimization to compress BERT models for question answering while balancing model size and performance. It describes distilling BERT into smaller student models using SQuAD 2.0 data. SigOpt was used to tune model architectures and training to find models that exceeded the baseline performance while reducing size by over 20%. The best models found had 4-6 layers and maintained over 67% accuracy on SQuAD.

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Optimizing BERT and Natural Language Models with SigOpt Experiment Management

1. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Why is Experiment Management important for NLP?

2. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. First, a quick overview of the problem

3. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Two main questions 3 Can we understand the trade-offs made during model compression? Can we find a model architecture that fits our needs?

4. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. The Data: SQUAD 2.0 4 SQUAD 2.0

5. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Distilling BERT for Question Answering 5 BERT Pre-trained for language modeling Student Model SQUAD 2.0 SQUAD 2.0 Soft target loss Hard target loss BERT Fine-tuned for SQUAD 2.0 Trained Student Model For more on distillation: Hinton et al 2015, DistilBERT

6. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Multimetric Bayesian Optimization Optimizing for two competing metrics 6 SigOpt’s Multimetric Optimization

7. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Experiment Management was critical throughout this process

8. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Experiment management was critical for 8 Model Development Understanding the Problem Space Monitoring Long Cycles

9. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Model Development

10. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Establishing a Baseline 10 BERT Pre-trained for language modeling Student Model SQUAD 2.0 SQUAD 2.0 Soft target loss Hard target loss BERT Fine-tuned for SQUAD 2.0 Trained Student Model ? ? ? ? ?

11. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Establishing a Baseline: Training from scratch 11 BERT Pre-trained for language modeling DistilBERT SQUAD 2.0 SQUAD 2.0 Standard soft target loss Standard hard target loss BERT Fine-tuned for SQUAD 2.0 Trained Model ? ? ? ? ?

12. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Baseline #1: Trained from scratch Dashboard link

13. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Establishing a Baseline: Warm starting the model 13 BERT Pre-trained for language modeling DistilBERT SQUAD 2.0 SQUAD 2.0 Standard soft target loss Standard Hard target loss BERT Fine-tuned for SQUAD 2.0 Trained Model DistilBERT Pre-trained for language modeling Pretrained Weights ? ?

14. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Baseline #2: Pretrained weights Dashboard link

15. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Understanding the problem space

16. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Running HPO to understand the problem space 16

17. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Let’s take a look at the experiment dashboard

18. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Correlations in the parameter space 18

19. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Exploring speciﬁc parameter areas 19 Runs dashboard

20. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Taking data properties into account 20

21. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Providing feedback to the optimizer 21

22. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Monitoring the full experiment

23. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Monitoring the full experiment 23 Run dashboard

24. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. SigOpt found dozens of viable models 24 Baseline Exact Baseline Size Metric Threshold

25. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. How did experiment management help throughout my process?

26. SigOpt. Conﬁdential.26 Model Development Understanding the Problem Space Monitoring Long Cycles Experiment Validation Experiment design and exploring the parameter space Tracking and Debugging

27. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. So why Experiment Management? 27

28. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Check out our YouTube channel: Learn more about SigOpt Read our research and product blog. See more videos here. Sign up to try out SigOpt for free! Join the Experiment Management beta Click Here Read the full work on Nvidia’s dev blog

29. SigOpt. Conﬁdential. Thank you!

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