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Hauptverfasser: Zhou, Wenjie, Ding, Zhenxin, Zhang, Xiaodong, Shi, Haibo, Wang, Junfeng, Yin, Dawei
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Zhou, Wenjie
Ding, Zhenxin
Zhang, Xiaodong
Shi, Haibo
Wang, Junfeng
Yin, Dawei
author_facet Zhou, Wenjie
Ding, Zhenxin
Zhang, Xiaodong
Shi, Haibo
Wang, Junfeng
Yin, Dawei
contents Pre-trained language models have become an integral component of question-answering systems, achieving remarkable performance. However, for practical deployment, it is crucial to perform knowledge distillation to maintain high performance while operating under computational constraints. In this paper, we address a key question: given the importance of unsupervised distillation for student model performance, how can knowledge from multiple teacher models be effectively ensemble during this stage without the guidance of labels? We propose a novel algorithm, GOVERN, to tackle this issue. GOVERN has demonstrated significant improvements in both offline and online experiments, enabling the student model to achieve results comparable to that of teacher ensembles. Our experiments show that GOVERN remarkably requires a mere 1\% of the ensemble method's inference budget to achieve 99.5\% of performance. The proposed algorithm has been successfully deployed in a real-world commercial question-answering system, demonstrating its real-world applicability.
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spellingShingle GOVERN: Gradient Orientation Vote Ensemble for Multi-Teacher Reinforced Distillation
Zhou, Wenjie
Ding, Zhenxin
Zhang, Xiaodong
Shi, Haibo
Wang, Junfeng
Yin, Dawei
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
Pre-trained language models have become an integral component of question-answering systems, achieving remarkable performance. However, for practical deployment, it is crucial to perform knowledge distillation to maintain high performance while operating under computational constraints. In this paper, we address a key question: given the importance of unsupervised distillation for student model performance, how can knowledge from multiple teacher models be effectively ensemble during this stage without the guidance of labels? We propose a novel algorithm, GOVERN, to tackle this issue. GOVERN has demonstrated significant improvements in both offline and online experiments, enabling the student model to achieve results comparable to that of teacher ensembles. Our experiments show that GOVERN remarkably requires a mere 1\% of the ensemble method's inference budget to achieve 99.5\% of performance. The proposed algorithm has been successfully deployed in a real-world commercial question-answering system, demonstrating its real-world applicability.
title GOVERN: Gradient Orientation Vote Ensemble for Multi-Teacher Reinforced Distillation
topic Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03764