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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1909.11942/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1909.11942/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations — mentioned by albertzeyer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31625857</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1909.11942:31625857</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2022 22:45:56 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Nice, thanks for naming a project after me. :P I also like the ALBERT lite-BERT model (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942). Although this was just a matter of time. The other names which match to &amp;quot;*bert*&amp;quot; were already taken. Anyway, going on topic: Such a project really should have a related work section, right at the beginning, because there are many existing launchers, and just say how this is different (maybe better). E.g. see here (https://alternativeto.net/software/alfred/?platform=linux). But I also would be interested on differences e.g. to Alfred (Mac). I really wonder why such…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1909.11942/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations — mentioned by microtonal</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25317634</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1909.11942:25317634</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2020 19:42:49 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s nothing preventing you from sharing weights across layers, and would be interesting to see some research about that. E.g. the ALBERT model does that: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942 I have done model distillation of XLM-RoBERTa into ALBERT-based models with multiple layer groups and for the tasks that I was working on (syntax) it works really well. E.g. we have gone from a finetuned ~1000MiB XLM-R base model to a 74MiB ALBERT-based model with barely any loss in accuracy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1909.11942/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations — mentioned by obmelvin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22006942</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1909.11942:22006942</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2020 23:20:11 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;As a sibling said, I think this is a focus of the article. At the very least Google has release multiple variations of one SOTA model this year: * original BERT paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 * ALBERT (smaller model): https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1909.11942/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations — mentioned by aglionby</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21991667</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1909.11942:21991667</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:22:53 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942 Really impressed at the speed with which Hugging Face ported this to their transformers library -- Google released the model and source code Oct 21 [1] and it was available in the library just 8 days later [2]. [1] https://github.com/google-research/google-research/commit/b5... [2] https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/c0c208833...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1909.11942/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.CL</category></item><item><title>ALBERT: A Lite BERT for Self-supervised Learning of Language Representations — HN submission</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21110762</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:submission:1909.11942:21110762</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Sep 2019 00:41:57 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;Albert: A Lite Bert for Self-Supervised Learning of Language Representations&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. &lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1909.11942/"&gt;Paper and source history&lt;/a&gt;. 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