README.md

---
license: cc-by-4.0
language: mr
datasets:
- L3Cube-MahaCorpus
---

## MahaBERT-Small
MahaBERT-Small is a smaller version of the Marathi BERT model with 6 transformer layers. It is a base-BERT model trained from scratch on L3Cube-MahaCorpus and other publicly available Marathi monolingual datasets. 
[dataset link] (https://github.com/l3cube-pune/MarathiNLP)

More details on the dataset, models, and baseline results can be found in our [paper] (https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01159)

The best version of this model is available <a href='https://huggingface.co/l3cube-pune/marathi-bert-v2'> here </a>.

```
@InProceedings{joshi:2022:WILDRE6,
  author    = {Joshi, Raviraj},
  title     = {L3Cube-MahaCorpus and MahaBERT: Marathi Monolingual Corpus, Marathi BERT Language Models, and Resources},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of The WILDRE-6 Workshop within the 13th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference},
  month          = {June},
  year           = {2022},
  address        = {Marseille, France},
  publisher      = {European Language Resources Association},
  pages     = {97--101}
}
```