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microsoft-deberta-v3-xsmall

Version: 6

HuggingFace•Last updated July 2025

DeBERTaV3: Improving DeBERTa using ELECTRA-Style Pre-Training with Gradient-Disentangled Embedding Sharing

DeBERTa improves the BERT and RoBERTa models using disentangled attention and enhanced mask decoder. With those two improvements, DeBERTa out perform RoBERTa on a majority of NLU tasks with 80GB training data. In DeBERTa V3 , we further improved the efficiency of DeBERTa using ELECTRA-Style pre-training with Gradient Disentangled Embedding Sharing. Compared to DeBERTa, our V3 version significantly improves the model performance on downstream tasks. You can find more technique details about the new model from our paper . Please check the official repository for more implementation details and updates. The DeBERTa V3 xsmall model comes with 12 layers and a hidden size of 384. It has only 22M backbone parameters with a vocabulary containing 128K tokens which introduces 48M parameters in the Embedding layer. This model was trained using the 160GB data as DeBERTa V2.

Fine-tuning on NLU tasks

We present the dev results on SQuAD 2.0 and MNLI tasks.

Model	Vocabulary(K)	Backbone #Params(M)	SQuAD 2.0(F1/EM)	MNLI-m/mm(ACC)
RoBERTa-base	50	86	83.7/80.5	87.6/-
XLNet-base	32	92	-/80.2	86.8/-
ELECTRA-base	30	86	-/80.5	88.8/
DeBERTa-base	50	100	86.2/83.1	88.8/88.5
DeBERTa-v3-large	128	304	91.5/89.0	91.8/91.9
DeBERTa-v3-base	128	86	88.4/85.4	90.6/90.7
DeBERTa-v3-small	128	44	82.8/80.4	88.3/87.7
DeBERTa-v3-xsmall	128	22	84.8/82.0	88.1/88.3
DeBERTa-v3-xsmall+SiFT	128	22	-/-	88.4/88.5

Fine-tuning with HF transformers

#!/bin/bash

cd transformers/examples/pytorch/text-classification/

pip install datasets
export TASK_NAME=mnli

output_dir="ds_results"

num_gpus=8

batch_size=8

python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=${num_gpus} \
  run_glue.py \
  --model_name_or_path microsoft/deberta-v3-xsmall \
  --task_name $TASK_NAME \
  --do_train \
  --do_eval \
  --evaluation_strategy steps \
  --max_seq_length 256 \
  --warmup_steps 1000 \
  --per_device_train_batch_size ${batch_size} \
  --learning_rate 4.5e-5 \
  --num_train_epochs 3 \
  --output_dir $output_dir \
  --overwrite_output_dir \
  --logging_steps 1000 \
  --logging_dir $output_dir

Citation

If you find DeBERTa useful for your work, please cite the following papers:

@misc{he2021debertav3,
      title={DeBERTaV3: Improving DeBERTa using ELECTRA-Style Pre-Training with Gradient-Disentangled Embedding Sharing}, 
      author={Pengcheng He and Jianfeng Gao and Weizhu Chen},
      year={2021},
      eprint={2111.09543},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL}
}

@inproceedings{
he2021deberta,
title={DEBERTA: DECODING-ENHANCED BERT WITH DISENTANGLED ATTENTION},
author={Pengcheng He and Xiaodong Liu and Jianfeng Gao and Weizhu Chen},
booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2021},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=XPZIaotutsD}
}

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Supported Parameters

inputs (string): The text with masked tokens
parameters (object):
- top_k (integer): When passed, overrides the number of predictions to return.
- targets (string[]): When passed, the model will limit the scores to the passed targets instead of looking up in the whole vocabulary. If the provided targets are not in the model vocab, they will be tokenized and the first resulting token will be used (with a warning, and that might be slower).

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Last UpdatedJuly 2025

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