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Introduction

DeBERTa (Decoding-enhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention) is a model that enhances BERT and RoBERTa by using disentangled attention and an enhanced mask decoder. It achieves superior performance over BERT and RoBERTa on various Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks with 80GB of training data.

Architecture

DeBERTa introduces two main improvements over traditional transformer architectures:

1. Disentangled Attention: Separates content from position in the attention mechanism, which allows the model to better capture dependencies.
2. Enhanced Mask Decoder: Improves the model's ability to predict masked tokens by incorporating additional contextual information.

Training

DeBERTa is trained on a large corpus of text (80GB) and is evaluated on tasks like SQuAD 1.1/2.0 and MNLI, where it outperforms existing models such as RoBERTa-base and XLNet-Large. Evaluation results are as follows:

• SQuAD 1.1: 93.1/87.2
• SQuAD 2.0: 86.2/83.1
• MNLI-m: 88.8

Guide: Running Locally

To run DeBERTa locally, follow these steps:

1. Setup Environment: Install the necessary libraries, including PyTorch and the Hugging Face Transformers library.
2. Download the Model: Use the Hugging Face model hub to download DeBERTa.
3. Load and Test: Load the model in your environment and test it with sample input data to ensure everything is working correctly.

For training and inference, consider using cloud GPUs for performance benefits. Platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure offer robust GPU solutions.

License

DeBERTa is released under the MIT License, allowing for free use, modification, and distribution of the software.