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Finnish ModernBERT Base

Finnish ModernBERT Base is a multilingual masked-language encoder with 143 million parameters. It uses a size-specific vocabulary and a 16,000-token configuration.

Training and configuration

Training covers Finnish, Swedish, English, code, Latin and Northern Sámi. The card reports 410.2 billion tokens. The card discusses 128K context as a theoretical extrapolation. The released configuration specifies 16,000 positions.Finnish ModernBERT Base: model card and weightsFinnish ModernBERT Base: released configuration

Checkpoint for continued training

finnish-modernbert-base-cpt is a downloadable checkpoint from before learning-rate decay. Its card reports 398.7 billion tokens and recommends it for continued pretraining. It is recorded here as a training-stage variant of this model, rather than another final release.Finnish ModernBERT Base: checkpoint for continued pretraining

Practical assessment

Practical guidance. Base adds depth while retaining a hidden width of 768. Assess it on the documents your application will process. The same vector width as another encoder does not make their representations interchangeable.

Specifications & access

Finnish ModernBERT Base specifications
DetailValue and conditions
AccessDownloadable
Model identifiersfinnish-modernbert-base
Context window16,000 tokens

max_position_embeddings in this release's configuration; theoretical extrapolation is not recorded as an established input limit.

Finnish ModernBERT Base: released configuration
LicenseApache 2.0.Finnish ModernBERT Base: model card and weights
Architecture22 layers, hidden width 768 and 12 attention heads.Finnish ModernBERT Base: released configuration
Vocabulary42,240 entries in the released configuration.Finnish ModernBERT Base: released configuration
Training volume410.2 billion tokens, as stated by this release's card.Finnish ModernBERT Base: model card and weights

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  • Finnish ModernBERT Base EDU provides 16,000-token encoder inputs with 143 million parameters and educational-data annealing.

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  • Finnish ModernBERT Base Short provides 8,192-token encoder inputs with 209 million parameters.

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