🚀 bert-lite: A Lightweight BERT for Efficient NLP
bert-lite is a lightweight NLP model designed for efficiency. It is tailored for tasks like MNLI and NLI, and performs well in low-resource environments. With its compact architecture, it is suitable for edge devices, IoT applications, and real - time NLP needs.
🚀 Quick Start
Basic Usage
from transformers import pipeline
mlm = pipeline("fill-mask", model="boltuix/bert-lite")
result = mlm("The cat [MASK] on the mat.")
print(result[0]['sequence'])
Advanced Usage
from transformers import pipeline
mlm_pipeline = pipeline("fill-mask", model="boltuix/bert-lite")
masked_sentences = [
"The robot can [MASK] the room in minutes.",
"He decided to [MASK] the project early.",
"This device is [MASK] for small tasks.",
"The weather will [MASK] by tomorrow.",
"She loves to [MASK] in the garden.",
"Please [MASK] the door before leaving.",
]
for sentence in masked_sentences:
print(f"Input: {sentence}")
predictions = mlm_pipeline(sentence)
for pred in predictions[:3]:
print(f"✨ → {pred['sequence']} (score: {pred['score']:.4f})")
✨ Features
- Compact Power: Optimized for speed and size.
- Fast Inference: Blazing quick on constrained hardware.
- Small Footprint: Minimal storage demands.
- Eco - Friendly: Low energy consumption.
- Versatile: Suitable for IoT, wearables, smart homes, and more.
- Strong Contextual Understanding: Captures language nuances with bidirectional attention and resolves ambiguities.
- Lightweight Learning: Can learn from minimal data and adapt to niche domains.
- Competitive Metrics: Achieves competitive accuracy, F1 score, and inference time compared to larger models.
📦 Installation
The installation process is related to the transformers
library. You can install it using the following command:
pip install transformers
📚 Documentation
Model Details
Property |
Details |
Model Type |
Derived from google-bert/bert-base-uncased |
Layers |
Custom lightweight design, potentially 4 layers |
Hidden Size |
Optimized for efficiency, possibly around 256 |
Attention Heads |
Minimal yet effective, likely 4 |
Parameters |
Ultra - low count, approximately ~11M |
Size |
Quantized and compact, around ~44MB |
Training Data |
Wikipedia, BookCorpus, MNLI, and sentence-transformers/all-nli |
Inference Speed |
Faster than BERT - base, optimized for real - time use on constrained hardware |
Accuracy |
Competitive with larger models, achieving ~90 - 97% of BERT - base’s performance (task - dependent) |
Metrics
- Accuracy: Competitive with larger models.
- F1 Score: Balanced precision and recall.
- Inference Time: Optimized for real - time use.
Use Cases
- Developers: Build lightweight NLP apps for mobile or IoT.
- Innovators: Power wearables, smart homes, or robots.
- Enthusiasts: Experiment on a budget.
- Eco - Warriors: Reduce AI’s carbon footprint.
🔧 Technical Details
bert-lite is based on the BERT framework. It has a custom lightweight design with a reduced number of layers, hidden size, and attention heads. This reduction in parameters and size allows it to run efficiently on edge devices. The model is fine - tuned on datasets like MNLI and all - nli, enabling it to adapt to different NLP tasks.
📄 License
This project is under the MIT License, which means it is free to use, modify, and share.

Tags
#tiny-bert #iot #wearable-ai #intent-detection #smart-home #offline-assistant #nlp #transformers