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

Table 9.

Comparison of BLURB test performance: standard fine-tuning vs. optimal fine-tuning with advanced stabilization methods PLUS extensive hyperparameter search

Fine-tuning PubMedBERT-BASE
PubMedBERT-LARGE
PubMedELECTRA-LARGE
Standard Optimal Standard Optimal Standard Optimal
BC5-chem 93.33 93.33 93.23∗ 93.23∗ 92.90 93.25
BC5-disease 85.62 85.62 85.77∗ 85.77∗ 84.82 85.23
NCBI-disease 87.82 88.21 88.25∗ 88.25∗ 87.93 88.19
BC2GM 84.52 84.55 84.72∗ 84.72∗ 83.87 84.47
JNLPBA 79.10 79.16 79.44∗ 79.44∗ 78.77 78.77
EBM PICO 73.38 73.45 73.61 73.61 73.95 74.02∗
ChemProt 77.24 77.41 78.77∗ 78.77∗ 76.80 77.26
DDI 82.36 83.17 82.39 82.78∗ 78.92 80.37
GAD 83.96 84.01∗ 83.57 83.76 83.93 83.93
BIOSSES 92.30 94.49∗ 90.29 92.73 86.17 92.69
HoC 82.32 83.02∗ 82.57 82.70 82.37 82.37
PubMedQA 55.84 63.92 63.18 67.38∗ 60.18 65.02
BioASQ 87.56 82.75 92.36 93.36∗ 81.71 93.14
BLURB score 81.16 82.75 82.02 82.91∗ 79.83 82.44

Note: the addition of extensive hyperparameter tuning results in optimal results that may be higher than those reported without extensive hyperparameter tuning, as in Table 7.

∗

Highest performance for task (row).