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. 2023 Apr 14;4(4):100729. doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2023.100729

Table 7.

Comparison of BLURB test performance using LARGE models (24 layers, 300M+ parameters), with optimal layer-specific stabilization methods

BioBERT-LARGE BlueBERT-LARGE PubMedBERT-LARGE PubMedELECTRA-LARGE
BC5-chem 93.05 90.24 93.23∗ 92.90
BC5-disease 84.97 82.93 85.77∗ 84.82
NCBI-disease 88.76∗ 86.44 88.25 87.93
BC2GM 84.21 80.86 84.72∗ 83.87
JNLPBA 78.83 77.59 79.44∗ 78.77
EBM PICO 73.81 72.43 73.61 73.95∗
ChemProt 77.79 71.31 78.77∗ 76.80
DDI 81.53 78.99 82.39∗ 78.92
GAD 82.47 75.80 83.57 83.93∗
BIOSSES 91.53 86.18 92.73∗ 90.33
HoC 81.57 81.35 82.57∗ 82.37
PubMedQA 55.16 55.24 67.38∗ 65.02
BioASQ 78.93 72.21 93.36∗ 93.14
BLURB score 80.09 77.11 82.86∗ 81.88
ΔBASE model −0.59 +0.15 +0.58 +0.37

Note: the optimal strategies were all layer-reinit for BIOSSES and layerwise decay for QA.

∗

Highest performance for task (row).