| # Material SciBERT (TPU) | |
| Goal: Improving language understanding in materials science | |
| **Work in progress** | |
| ## Related work | |
| ### BERT Implementations | |
| - | |
| - BERT (the original) https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 | |
| - RoBERTa (Re-implementation by Facebook) https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.11692 | |
| ### Relevant models | |
| - SciBERT: BERT, from scratch, scientific articles (biology + CS) https://github.com/allenai/scibert | |
| - MatSciBERT (Gupta): RoBERTa, from scratch, SciBERT vocab and weights, ~150 K paper limited to 4 MS families http://github.com/m3rg-iitd/matscibert | |
| - MaterialBERT: Not yet published | |
| - MatBERT (CEDER): BERT, from scratch, 2M documents on materials science (~60M paragraphs) https://github.com/lbnlp/MatBERT | |
| - BatteryBERT (Cole): BERT, mixed from scratch and with predefined weights https://github.com/ShuHuang/batterybert/ | |
| ### Results | |
| Results obtained via 10-fold cross-validation, using DeLFT (https://github.com/kermitt2/delft) | |
| #### NER Superconductors | |
| | Model | Precision | Recall | F1 | | |
| |----------------------|-----------|---------|--------| | |
| | SciBERT (baseline) | 81.62% | 84.23% | 82.90% | | |
| | MatSciBERT (Gupta) | 81.45% | 84.36% | 82.88% | | |
| | MatTPUSciBERT | 82.13% | 85.15% | 83.61% | | |
| | MatBERT (Ceder) | 81.25% | 83.99% | 82.60% | | |
| | BatteryScibert-cased | 81.09% | 84.14% | 82.59% | | |
| #### NER Quantities | |
| | Model | Precision | Recall | F1 | | |
| |----------------------|-----------|---------|----------| | |
| | SciBERT (baseline) | 88.73% | 86.76% | 87.73% | | |
| | MatSciBERT (Gupta) | 84.98% | 90.12% | 87.47% | | |
| | MatTPUSciBERT | 88.62% | 86.33% | 87.46% | | |
| | MatBERT (Ceder) | 85.08% | 89.93% | 87.44% | | |
| | BatteryScibert-cased | 85.02% | 89.30% | 87.11% | | |
| | BatteryScibert-cased | 81.09% | 84.14% | 82.59% | | |
| ## References | |
| This work was supported by Google, through the researchers program https://cloud.google.com/edu/researchers | |
| ## Acknowledgements | |
| TBA |