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BERT

6,938 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Jacob Devlin et al. in BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

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BERT, or Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, improves upon standard Transformers by removing the unidirectionality constraint by using a masked language model (MLM) pre-training objective. The masked language model randomly masks some of the tokens from the input, and the objective is to predict the original vocabulary id of the masked word based only on its context. Unlike left-to-right language model pre-training, the MLM objective enables the representation to fuse the left and the right context, which allows us to pre-train a deep bidirectional Transformer. In addition to the masked language model, BERT uses a next sentence prediction task that jointly pre-trains text-pair representations.

There are two steps in BERT: pre-training and fine-tuning. During pre-training, the model is trained on unlabeled data over different pre-training tasks. For fine-tuning, the BERT model is first initialized with the pre-trained parameters, and all of the parameters are fine-tuned using labeled data from the downstream tasks. Each downstream task has separate fine-tuned models, even though they are initialized with the same pre-trained parameters.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
RAG1,288
Retrieval1,260
Language Modelling1,119
Retrieval-augmented Generation1,092
Language Modeling903
Question Answering751
Sentence730
Sentiment Analysis406
Text Classification387
text-classification342
Transfer Learning305
Classification261
Word Embeddings258
Information Retrieval243
Named Entity Recognition242
Named Entity Recognition (NER)231
named-entity-recognition231
Natural Language Understanding229
Large Language Model221
Articles188

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with BERT: 2018 to 2025, peak 1,375 1,375 0 2018: 6 papers 2018 2019: 576 papers 2019 2020: 1234 papers 2020 2021: 1288 papers 2021 2022: 810 papers 2022 2023: 831 papers 2023 2024: 1375 papers 2024 2025: 818 papers 2025
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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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