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NLP
2018
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BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding

Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, Kristina Toutanova · 2018

Bidirectional masked-language modelling that reshaped NLP benchmarks and set the pretraining-then-finetuning pattern for years to come.

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