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Re:ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Langu... by zuzun on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @12:28PM (#21993606)
Is there a speed-up? In their paper in table 3, once you compare each ALBERT model with the smaller BERT model, you're looking at similar accuracies and longer training times.
Re:ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-Supervised Learning of Langu... by nl on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @08:02PM (#21997495)
They are comparing the speed to execute training to 125K steps, not speed to a given accuracy.

In section 4.8 they compare accuracy at the same amount of training time for the biggest of each model and show that ALBERT is substantially better.