Benjamin Warner @benjaminwarner.dev · Feb 10

After instruction tuning on Flan, ModernBERT-Large-Instruct outperforms similarly sized LLMs on MMLU & MMLU-Pro, and achieves ~90 percent of Llama 3.2 1B's performance with ~65 percent fewer parameters.

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Benjamin Warner · Feb 10

When we finetune ModernBERT-Large-Instruct on task specific datasets, the generative MLM head is better or nearly equal to standard classification heads.