Tag: Model Compression

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Microsoft’s XTC Extreme Lightweight Compression Method for Pretrained Transformers Achieves SOTA Results and 50x Smaller Model Sizes

In the new paper Extreme Compression for Pre-trained Transformers Made Simple and Efficient, a Microsoft research team introduces XTC, a simple yet effective extreme compression pipeline for pretrained transformers that can achieve state-of-the-art results while reducing model size by 50x.