# Small-Bench NLP: Benchmark for small single GPU trained models in Natural Language Processing

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.10847 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.10847/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 13 of its 17 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 22 Sep 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 13 of 13)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.04805/) (2018)
- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Language Models are Few-Shot Learners](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.14165/) (2020)
- [Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.10683/) (2019)
- [RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.11692/) (2019)
- [GLUE: A Multi-Task Benchmark and Analysis Platform for Natural Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.07461/) (2018)
- [XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.08237/) (2019)
- [ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.11942/) (2019)
- [DeBERTa: Decoding-enhanced BERT with Disentangled Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.03654/) (2020)
- [SuperGLUE: A Stickier Benchmark for General-Purpose Language Understanding Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.00537/) (2019)
- [MPNet: Masked and Permuted Pre-training for Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.09297/) (2020)
- [Unified Language Model Pre-training for Natural Language Understanding and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.03197/) (2019)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [DeBERTaV3: Improving DeBERTa using ELECTRA-Style Pre-Training with Gradient-Disentangled Embedding Sharing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.09543/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent progress in the Natural Language Processing domain has given us several State-of-the-Art (SOTA) pretrained models which can be finetuned for specific tasks. These large models with billions of parameters trained on numerous GPUs/TPUs over weeks are leading in the benchmark leaderboards. In this paper, we discuss the need for a benchmark for cost and time effective smaller models trained on a single GPU. This will enable researchers with resource constraints experiment with novel and innovative ideas on tokenization, pretraining tasks, architecture, fine tuning methods etc. We set up Small-Bench NLP, a benchmark for small efficient neural language models trained on a single GPU. Small-Bench NLP benchmark comprises of eight NLP tasks on the publicly available GLUE datasets and a leaderboard to track the progress of the community. Our ELECTRA-DeBERTa (15M parameters) small model architecture achieves an average score of 81.53 which is comparable to that of BERT-Base's 82.20 (110M parameters). Our models, code and leaderboard are available at https://github.com/smallbenchnlp