Overview
sshleifer/distilbart-cnn-12-6 is a distilled BART model fine-tuned for abstractive summarization on CNN/DailyMail, achieving ROUGE-2 21.26 and ROUGE-L ~30.6. It runs approximately 2x faster than the full bart-large-cnn while retaining comparable summarization quality, making it the practical choice for CPU-based production deployments.
Deploy as a SageMaker batch transform job for offline summarization of document corpora, or as a real-time endpoint for on-demand summarization. At 2-6 seconds per article on ml.m5.xlarge (depending on input length), it is well suited to asynchronous workflows -- summarize customer support transcripts overnight, generate document abstracts during ingestion, or condense meeting notes in near-real-time.
All processing happens in your AWS VPC. Unlike generative LLM summarization, there are no per-token charges -- you pay a flat $0.10/hr regardless of document volume.
Primary use cases: customer support call transcript summarization, legal and compliance document abstraction, news and research article digests, meeting notes condensation, and any pipeline that needs consistent abstractive summaries at scale without LLM token billing.
Highlights
- ROUGE-2 21.26 on CNN/DailyMail -- production summarization quality at 2x the speed of BART-large-cnn on the same CPU instance
- No LLM token billing -- flat $0.10/hr regardless of document volume, ideal for overnight batch summarization of large corpora
- Runs in your AWS VPC -- no document content leaves your account, compatible with SageMaker batch transform for large-scale offline jobs
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Dimension | Description | Cost/host/hour |
|---|---|---|
ml.m5.xlarge Inference (Real-Time) Recommended | Model inference on the ml.m5.xlarge instance type, real-time mode | $0.10 |
ml.m5.xlarge Inference (Batch) Recommended | Model inference on the ml.m5.xlarge instance type, batch mode | $0.10 |
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sshleifer/distilbart-cnn-12-6 on SageMaker. ROUGE-2 21.26 on CNN/DailyMail. Summarize tickets, call transcripts, and documents in your own VPC -- no LLM token billing, flat $0.10/hr.
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