| language: en | |
| # Sparse BERT base model (uncased) | |
| Pretrained model pruned to 70% sparsity. | |
| The model is a pruned version of the [BERT base model](https://huggingface.co/bert-base-uncased). | |
| ## Intended Use | |
| The model can be used for fine-tuning to downstream tasks with sparsity already embeded to the model. | |
| To keep the sparsity a mask should be added to each sparse weight blocking the optimizer from updating the zeros. |