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> Token dropping aims to accelerate the pretraining of transformer models such as BERT without degrading its performance on downstream tasks.

> A BERT model pretrained using this token dropping method is not different to a BERT model pretrained in the conventional way: a BERT checkpoint pretrained with token dropping can be viewed and used as a normal BERT checkpoint, for finetuning etc.