BERTino: an Italian DistilBERT model
This repository hosts BERTino, an Italian DistilBERT model pre-trained by indigo.ai on a large general-domain Italian corpus. BERTino is task-agnostic and can be fine-tuned for every downstream task.
Corpus
The pre-training corpus that we used is the union of the Paisa and ItWaC corpora. The final corpus counts 14 millions of sentences for a total of 12 GB of text.
Downstream Results
To validate the pre-training that we conducted, we evaluated BERTino on the Italian ParTUT, Italian ISDT, Italian WikiNER and multi-class sentence classification tasks. We report for comparison results obtained by the teacher model fine-tuned in the same tasks and for the same number of epochs.
Italian ISDT:
Model | F1 score | Fine-tuning time | Evaluation time |
---|---|---|---|
BERTino | 0,9801 | 9m, 4s | 3s |
Teacher | 0,983 | 16m, 28s | 5s |
Italian ParTUT:
Model | F1 score | Fine-tuning time | Evaluation time |
---|---|---|---|
BERTino | 0,9268 | 1m, 18s | 1s |
Teacher | 0,9688 | 2m, 18s | 1s |
Italian WikiNER:
Model | F1 score | Fine-tuning time | Evaluation time |
---|---|---|---|
BERTino | 0,9038 | 35m, 35s | 3m, 1s |
Teacher | 0,9178 | 67m, 8s | 5m, 16s |
Multi-class sentence classification:
Model | F1 score | Fine-tuning time | Evaluation time |
---|---|---|---|
BERTino | 0,7788 | 4m, 40s | 6s |
Teacher | 0,7986 | 8m, 52s | 9s |
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