BERT: The Most Used AI Model You Haven't Heard Of

Who knew the power of encoder only models? Resources: BERT Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.04805 ModernBERT Blog: https://huggingface.co/blog/modernbert Phillip Schmid Fine Tuning BERT: https://www.philschmid.de/fine-tune-modern-bert-in-2025 Fine Tuning Notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1G7oHp_8R4fmOSpjwaNB_T2NUJsmMh4Kw?usp=sharing ModernBERT-Large-llm-router: https://huggingface.co/AdamLucek/ModernBERT-large-llm-router Additional Readings BERT Transformers, How Do They Work?: https://dzone.com/articles/bert-transformers-how-do-they-work BERT Explained: https://towardsdatascience.com/bert-explained-state-of-the-art-language-model-for-nlp-f8b21a9b6270 QnA With BERT: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/question-answering-system-with-bert-ebe1130f8def BERT 101: https://huggingface.co/blog/bert-101 Paper Summary - BERT: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/paper-summary-bert-pre-training-of-deep-bidirectional-transformers-for-language-understanding-861456fed1f9 Chapters: 00:00 - Encoder vs Decoder Models 02:02 - Explanation: Overview 03:13 - Explanation: Attention 04:39 - Explanation: Masked Language Modelling & NSP 06:29 - Explanation: Benefits of BERT 07:28 - Explanation: Fine Tuning Variations 10:11 - Explanation: BERT vs GPT 11:54 - ModernBERT: The Next Gen BERT Model 15:10 - Fine Tuning: Overview 16:35 - Fine Tuning: Data Prep 20:49 - Fine Tuning: Model Prep 22:15 - Fine Tuning: Evaluation Metric 23:29 - Fine Tuning: Training 24:59 - Fine Tuning: Testing The Model #ai #datascience #programming