Optimize a BERT-Large Bfloat16 Inference Model Package with TensorFlow*

Download Command

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/intel-optimized-tensorflow/models/v2_3_0/bert-large-bfloat16-inference.tar.gz

Description

This document has instructions for running BERT bfloat16 inference using Intel® Optimization for TensorFlow*.

BERT-Large Data

Download and unzip the BERT-Large uncased (whole word masking) model from the Google* BERT repository. Then, download the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD) dataset file dev-v1.1.json into the wwm_uncased_L-24_H-1024_A-16 directory that was just unzipped.

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/bert_models/2019_05_30/wwm_uncased_L-24_H-1024_A-16.zip
unzip wwm_uncased_L-24_H-1024_A-16.zip

wget https://rajpurkar.github.io/SQuAD-explorer/dataset/dev-v1.1.json -P wwm_uncased_L-24_H-1024_A-16

Set the DATASET_DIR to point to that directory when running BERT-Large inference using the SQuAD data.

Quick Start Scripts

Bare Metal

To run on bare metal, the following prerequisites must be installed in your environment:

• Python* 3
• Intel Optimization for TensorFlow
• Numactl
• Git

After you install the previous dependencies, download and untar the model package, set environment variables, and then run a quick start script. See the datasets and list of quick start scripts for more details on the different options.

The snippet below shows how to run a quick start script:

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/intel-optimized-tensorflow/models/v2_3_0/bert-large-bfloat16-inference.tar.gz
tar -xvf bert-large-bfloat16-inference.tar.gz
cd bert-large-bfloat16-inference

DATASET_DIR=<path to the dataset being used>
OUTPUT_DIR=<directory where log files will be saved>

# Run a script for your desired usage
bash ./quickstart/<script name>.sh

Documentation and Sources

Get Started​
Main GitHub*
Readme
Release Notes
Get Started Guide

Code Sources
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License Agreement

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