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BERT paper posted on arXiv — pre-training a deep bidirectional Transformer encoder that conditions on both left and right context

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Fine-tuned with just one additional output layer, it set new state-of-the-art results on 11 NLP tasks, including GLUE 80.4% and SQuAD v1.1 F1 93.2 (as reported by the authors)

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805

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