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Mar 4, 2021 · Artificial Intelligence

Optimizing BERT Online Service Deployment at 360 Search

This article describes the challenges of deploying a large BERT model as an online service for 360 Search and details engineering optimizations—including framework selection, model quantization, knowledge distillation, stream scheduling, caching, and dynamic sequence handling—that dramatically improve latency, throughput, and resource utilization.