microsoft/fastformers

• highreadme#1

  Reposition the README H1 and opening paragraph to clarify its role as a toolkit

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  # FastFormers
  
  **FastFormers** provides a set of recipes and methods to achieve highly efficient inference of Transformer models for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) including the demo models showing **233.87x speed-up** (Yes, 233x on CPU with the multi-head self-attentive Transformer architecture. This is not an LSTM or an RNN). The details of the methods and analyses are described in the paper *FastFormers: Highly Efficient Transformer Models for Natural Language Understanding* paper.

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  # FastFormers: A Toolkit for Highly Efficient NLU Transformer Inference
  
  **FastFormers** is a comprehensive toolkit that unifies and simplifies the application of various state-of-the-art optimization techniques, providing a set of recipes and methods to achieve highly efficient inference of Transformer models for Natural Language Understanding (NLU). It demonstrates significant speed-ups, including a **233.87x speed-up** on CPU for multi-head self-attentive Transformer architectures, as detailed in the *FastFormers: Highly Efficient Transformer Models for Natural Language Understanding* paper. This repository focuses on practical application of optimization techniques for NLU models in production environments.

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• mediumreadme#2

  Clarify the project's license in the README

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  Add a section or line to the README, for example: "This project is licensed under the terms specified in the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file."

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