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DistilBERT

Training compute
1.2×10¹⁹ FLOP
Parameters
66M
Published
Oct 2, 2019

DistilBERT is an AI model developed by Hugging Face (United States), first published in October 2019. It works in the language domain, on tasks such as text autocompletion.

Training it took an estimated 1.2×10¹⁹ FLOP of compute (estimation method: hardware). The model has 66,000,000 parameters. It was trained on roughly 495M datapoints. Training ran on NVIDIA Tesla V100 DGXS 16 GB.

Access: Open weights (unrestricted). Its weights are openly available. The reference paper has 9,714 citations. Epoch AI rates the confidence of this record as confident.

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Organization
Hugging Face
Country of organization
United States
Domain
Language
Task
Text autocompletion
Training compute
1.2×10¹⁹ FLOP
Compute estimation method
Hardware
Parameters
66,000,000
Dataset size
495M
Training hardware
NVIDIA Tesla V100 DGXS 16 GB
Model accessibility
Open weights (unrestricted)
Open weights
Yes
Citations
9,714
Epoch confidence
Confident
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