Summary of Smarter, Better, Faster, Longer: a Modern Bidirectional Encoder For Fast, Memory Efficient, and Long Context Finetuning and Inference, by Benjamin Warner et al.
Smarter, Better, Faster, Longer: A Modern Bidirectional Encoder for Fast, Memory Efficient, and Long Context Finetuning and Inference
by Benjamin Warner, Antoine Chaffin, Benjamin Clavié, Orion Weller, Oskar Hallström, Said Taghadouini, Alexis Gallagher, Raja Biswas, Faisal Ladhak, Tom Aarsen, Nathan Cooper, Griffin Adams, Jeremy Howard, Iacopo Poli
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces ModernBERT, a major Pareto improvement over older encoders, achieving state-of-the-art results in diverse classification tasks and multi-vector retrieval. By applying modern model optimizations to encoder-only models like BERT, the authors demonstrate superior performance-size tradeoffs compared to larger decoder-only models. The novel architecture is trained on 2 trillion tokens with native sequence length support up to 8192, showcasing its efficiency and effectiveness. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper makes a new type of AI model that does really well at understanding and processing lots of information. It’s called ModernBERT, and it’s an improvement over the older models that are good at this too, but not as good. The new model is trained on a huge amount of data and can handle longer pieces of text than before. This makes it useful for things like searching through code or understanding what people are saying. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Bert » Classification » Decoder » Encoder
