Collection of approximately 58 million Russian forum messages featuring:
- Complete message content from Russian online forums spanning 2010-2025 - Comprehensive metadata including unique message IDs and timestamps - Full text content preserving original user discussions and interactions - Monolingual dataset focused exclusively on Russian language content
This dataset offers a unique textual archive of Russian online conversations suitable for text generation, sentiment analysis, and language modeling research. Released to the public domain under CC0 1.0 license.
An assembly of 18 European companies, labs, and universities have banded together to launch ๐ช๐บ EuroBERT! It's a state-of-the-art multilingual encoder for 15 European languages, designed to be finetuned for retrieval, classification, etc.
๐ช๐บ 15 Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Russian, Polish, Portuguese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Dutch, Arabic, Turkish, Hindi 3๏ธโฃ 3 model sizes: 210M, 610M, and 2.1B parameters - very very useful sizes in my opinion โก๏ธ Sequence length of 8192 tokens! Nice to see these higher sequence lengths for encoders becoming more common. โ๏ธ Architecture based on Llama, but with bi-directional (non-causal) attention to turn it into an encoder. Flash Attention 2 is supported. ๐ฅ A new Pareto frontier (stronger *and* smaller) for multilingual encoder models ๐ Evaluated against mDeBERTa, mGTE, XLM-RoBERTa for Retrieval, Classification, and Regression (after finetuning for each task separately): EuroBERT punches way above its weight. ๐ Detailed paper with all details, incl. data: FineWeb for English and CulturaX for multilingual data, The Stack v2 and Proof-Pile-2 for code.
The next step is for researchers to build upon the 3 EuroBERT base models and publish strong retrieval, zero-shot classification, etc. models for all to use. I'm very much looking forward to it!