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language:
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# rubert-base-cased

RuBERT \(Russian, cased, 12‑layer, 768‑hidden, 12‑heads, 180M parameters\) was trained on the Russian part of Wikipedia and news data. We used this training data to build a vocabulary of Russian subtokens and took a multilingual version of BERT‑base as an initialization for RuBERT\[1\].

08.11.2021: upload model with MLM and NSP heads

\[1\]: Kuratov, Y., Arkhipov, M. \(2019\). Adaptation of Deep Bidirectional Multilingual Transformers for Russian Language. arXiv preprint [arXiv:1905.07213](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07213).