Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, and Kristina Toutanova of Google introduced BERT. By pioneering masked language modeling to train deep bidirectional Transformer layers on the entire English Wikipedia and BooksCorpus, BERT shattered eleven natural language processing records simultaneously, permanently shifting the industry toward large-scale pre-trained contextual embeddings.
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