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---
license: apache-2.0
datasets:
- pubmed
language:
- en
tags:
- biology
- medical
---
# rttl-ai/BIOptimus v.0.4
## Model Details
**Model Description:** BIOptimus v.0.4 model is a BERT-like model pre-trained on [PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) abstracts.
It is a biomedical language model pre-trained using contextualized weight distillation and Curriculum Learning.
This model achieves state-of-the-art performance on several biomedical NER datasets from [BLURB benchmark](https://microsoft.github.io/BLURB/).
- **Developed by:** rttl-ai
- **Model Type:** Language model
- **Language(s):** English
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Resources for more information:**
- It is introduced in the paper BIOptimus: Pre-training an Optimal Biomedical Language Model with Curriculum Learning for Named Entity Recognition (BioNLP workshop @ ACL 2023).
- [arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08625)
- [arxiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02803)
- More information is available in [this repository](https://github.com/rttl-ai/BIOptimus).