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Improving Multi-Task Deep Neural Networks via Knowledge Distillation for Natural Language Understanding

Xiaodong Liu Pengcheng He Weizhu Chen Jianfeng Gao

Abstract

This paper explores the use of knowledge distillation to improve a Multi-Task Deep Neural Network (MT-DNN) (Liu et al., 2019) for learning text representations across multiple natural language understanding tasks. Although ensemble learning can improve model performance, serving an ensemble of large DNNs such as MT-DNN can be prohibitively expensive. Here we apply the knowledge distillation method (Hinton et al., 2015) in the multi-task learning setting. For each task, we train an ensemble of different MT-DNNs (teacher) that outperforms any single model, and then train a single MT-DNN (student) via multi-task learning to \emph{distill} knowledge from these ensemble teachers. We show that the distilled MT-DNN significantly outperforms the original MT-DNN on 7 out of 9 GLUE tasks, pushing the GLUE benchmark (single model) to 83.7% (1.5% absolute improvement\footnote{ Based on the GLUE leaderboard at https://gluebenchmark.com/leaderboard as of April 1, 2019.}). The code and pre-trained models will be made publicly available at https://github.com/namisan/mt-dnn.


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