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DPAL-BERT: A Faster and Lighter Question Answering Model

Lirong Yin¹, Lei Wang¹, Zhuohang Cai², Siyu Lu^2,*, Ruiyang Wang², Ahmed AlSanad³, Salman A. AlQahtani³, Xiaobing Chen⁴, Zhengtong Yin⁵, Xiaolu Li⁶, Wenfeng Zheng^2,3,*

1 Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
2 School of Automation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
3 College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11574, Saudi Arabia
4 School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
5 College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China
6 School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China

* Corresponding Authors: Siyu Lu. Email: ; Wenfeng Zheng. Email: