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TextPruner: A Model Pruning Toolkit for Pre-Trained Language Models

Ziqing Yang, Yiming Cui, Zhigang Chen

7 pages. Accepted to ACL 2022 Demo

Abstract: Pre-trained language models have been prevailed in natural language processing and become the backbones of many NLP tasks, but the demands for computational resources have limited their applications. In this paper, we introduce TextPruner, an open-source model pruning toolkit designed for pre-trained language models, targeting fast and easy model compression. TextPruner offers structured post-training pruning methods, including vocabulary pruning and transformer pruning, and can be applied to various models and tasks. We also propose a self-supervised pruning method that can be applied without the labeled data. Our experiments with several NLP tasks demonstrate the ability of TextPruner to reduce the model size without re-training the model.

Submitted to arXiv on 30 Mar. 2022