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BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

Masked-language pretraining learns bidirectional representations that can be adapted to language-understanding tasks.

Jacob Devlin et al.
2018-10 · Google · Research paper
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Compare representation learning with the autoregressive approach used by generative language models.

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@misc{devlin2018bert,
  title = {BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding},
  author = {Jacob Devlin and Ming-Wei Chang and Kenton Lee and Kristina Toutanova},
  year = {2018},
  eprint = {1810.04805},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CL},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805}
}

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