Fast Vocabulary Transfer for Language Model Compression
Leonidas Gee Andrea Zugarini Leonardo Rigutini Paolo Torroni
Real-world business applications require a trade-off between language model
performance and size. We propose a new method for model compression that relies
on vocabulary transfer. We evaluate the method on various vertical domains and
downstream tasks. Our results indicate that vocabulary transfer can be
effectively used in combination with other compression techniques, yielding a
significant reduction in model size and inference time while marginally
compromising on performance.