BioM-Transformers: Building Large Biomedical Language Models with BERT, ALBERT and ELECTRA Abstract The impact of design choices on the performance of biomedical language models recently has been a subject for investigation. In this paper, we empirically study biomedical domain adaptation with large transformer models using different design choices. We evaluate the performance of our pretrained models against other existing biomedical language models in the literature. Our results show that we achieve state-of-the-art results on several biomedical domain tasks despite using similar or less computational cost compared to other models in the literature. Our findings highlight the significant effect of design choices on improving the performance of biomedical language models. This model was pre-trained on PubMed Abstracts only with biomedical domain vocabulary for 434K steps with a batch size of 4096 on TPUv3-512 unit. ```bibtex @inproceedings{alrowili-shanker-2021-biom, title = "{B}io{M}-Transformers: Building Large Biomedical Language Models with {BERT}, {ALBERT} and {ELECTRA}", author = "Alrowili, Sultan and Shanker, Vijay", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th Workshop on Biomedical Language Processing", month = jun, year = "2021", address = "Online", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.bionlp-1.24", pages = "221--227", abstract = "The impact of design choices on the performance of biomedical language models recently has been a subject for investigation. In this paper, we empirically study biomedical domain adaptation with large transformer models using different design choices. We evaluate the performance of our pretrained models against other existing biomedical language models in the literature. Our results show that we achieve state-of-the-art results on several biomedical domain tasks despite using similar or less computational cost compared to other models in the literature. Our findings highlight the significant effect of design choices on improving the performance of biomedical language models.", } ```