deberta-v3-small

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microsoft

DeBERTa-v3-small

PropertyValue
Parameters44M (backbone) + 98M (embedding)
LicenseMIT
AuthorMicrosoft
PaperDeBERTaV3 Paper

What is deberta-v3-small?

DeBERTa-v3-small is a compact yet powerful language model that represents the third generation of Microsoft's DeBERTa architecture. It features 6 layers with a hidden size of 768, utilizing ELECTRA-style pre-training combined with gradient-disentangled embedding sharing. The model achieves impressive performance metrics, including 82.8/80.4 F1/EM scores on SQuAD 2.0 and 88.3/87.7 accuracy on MNLI-m/mm tasks.

Implementation Details

The model incorporates several innovative architectural elements that set it apart from its predecessors:

  • 6-layer architecture with 768 hidden size
  • 128K token vocabulary
  • Enhanced mask decoder system
  • Disentangled attention mechanism
  • ELECTRA-style pre-training approach

Core Capabilities

  • Fill-mask operations
  • Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks
  • Question answering (demonstrated by SQuAD performance)
  • Natural Language Inference (shown by MNLI results)

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What makes this model unique?

DeBERTa-v3-small stands out for its efficient architecture that combines the benefits of ELECTRA-style pre-training with gradient-disentangled embedding sharing, achieving strong performance despite its relatively small size of 44M parameters.

Q: What are the recommended use cases?

The model is particularly well-suited for natural language understanding tasks, including question answering, natural language inference, and text classification. It offers a good balance between model size and performance, making it suitable for production environments with resource constraints.

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