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ExtremeBERT is a Python toolkit for pretraining and fine-tuning BERT on custom or supported datasets, with configurable training pipelines, optimization options and command-line scripts.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use ExtremeBERT when you need a configurable, repository-based workflow for BERT pretraining or downstream fine-tuning and can provide the required Linux GPU and disk resources.

Who it is for

  • Researchers training BERT on custom text corpora
  • Practitioners adapting saved BERT checkpoints to downstream tasks
  • Researchers comparing custom optimizers or learning-rate schedulers during language-model pretraining

Documented uses

  • Prepare a dataset and configure a staged BERT training pipeline.
  • Pretrain BERT on a custom dataset or a dataset available through Hugging Face’s dataset hub.
  • Set a time-based pretraining limit or enable mixed-precision training.
  • Fine-tune a saved checkpoint on a GLUE task such as MRPC.
  • Integrate a customized optimizer or scheduler into the pretraining pipeline.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The repository is public and licensed under Apache-2.0.

  • The documented system requirements include Ubuntu 18.04 or later, at least 20 GB of GPU memory and at least 200 GB of disk space.
  • BERT is listed as supported; RoBERTa, ALBERT and DeBERTa are listed as in development.
  • The staged pipeline is configured through YAML, including dataset and GPU settings.
  • The repository documents Hugging Face dataset hub datasets and custom datasets, plus preprocessing scripts for Wikipedia and BookCorpus.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Configure and run the staged BERT pipeline

Run the repository’s configured pipeline through environment setup, dataset preparation, pretraining, fine-tuning and test-result collection.

Before you start

  • Linux Ubuntu 18.04 or later
  • At least 20 GB of GPU memory
  • At least 200 GB of disk space
  • A dataset and GPU configuration set in a YAML file based on configs/bert-simple.yaml

Steps

  1. Review configs/bert-simple.yaml and adjust the dataset and available-GPU settings.

  2. Run source install.sh; python main.py --config configs/bert-simple.yaml from the repository.

Expected outcome

The documented pipeline runs its stages in sequence and generates a ZIP file for GLUE test-server submission under output_test_translated/finetune/*/*.zip.

Guide limitations

  • The documented output is a GLUE submission ZIP, not a general deployment artifact.
  • The repository directs users to PIPELINE_CONFIG.md for further YAML configuration details.
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Source-based practical guide

Fine-tune a saved checkpoint on a GLUE task

Use the documented run_glue.py workflow to fine-tune and evaluate a saved model on MRPC.

Before you start

  • A saved model checkpoint
  • A configured Linux environment with the repository dependencies installed

Steps

  1. Set --model_name_or_path to the saved checkpoint and --task_name MRPC.

  2. Set output, sequence-length, batch-size, learning-rate and evaluation options for the run.

  3. Run the command below with the selected options, including --do_train and --do_eval.

    Documented command
    python run_glue.py

Expected outcome

The documented example trains and evaluates the checkpoint on MRPC, writing results to the selected output directory.

Guide limitations

  • The repository provides an example configuration; users must supply their checkpoint and choose appropriate run settings.
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