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microsoft-biomednlp-biomedbert-large-uncased-abstract

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HuggingFace•Last updated August 2025

MSR BiomedBERT-large (abstracts only)

This model was previously named "PubMedBERT large (abstracts)".
You can either adopt the new model name "microsoft/BiomedNLP-BiomedBERT-large-uncased-abstract" or update your transformers library to version 4.22+ if you need to refer to the old name.

Pretraining large neural language models, such as BERT, has led to impressive gains on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, most pretraining efforts focus on general domain corpora, such as newswire and Web. A prevailing assumption is that even domain-specific pretraining can benefit by starting from general-domain language models. Recent work shows that for domains with abundant unlabeled text, such as biomedicine, pretraining language models from scratch results in substantial gains over continual pretraining of general-domain language models. Followup work explores larger model sizes and the impact of these on performance on the BLURB benchmark. This BiomedBERT is pretrained from scratch using abstracts from PubMed .

Citation

If you find BiomedBERT useful in your research, please cite the following paper:

@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2112.07869,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2112.07869},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07869},
  author = {Tinn, Robert and Cheng, Hao and Gu, Yu and Usuyama, Naoto and Liu, Xiaodong and Naumann, Tristan and Gao, Jianfeng and Poon, Hoifung},
  keywords = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), Machine Learning (cs.LG), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
  title = {Fine-Tuning Large Neural Language Models for Biomedical Natural Language Processing},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  year = {2021},
  copyright = {arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license}
}

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Send Request

You can use cURL or any REST Client to send a request to the AzureML endpoint with your AzureML token.

curl <AZUREML_ENDPOINT_URL> \
    -X POST \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer <AZUREML_TOKEN>" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"inputs":"The answer to the universe is undefined."}'

Supported Parameters

inputs (string): The text with masked tokens
parameters (object):
- top_k (integer): When passed, overrides the number of predictions to return.
- targets (string[]): When passed, the model will limit the scores to the passed targets instead of looking up in the whole vocabulary. If the provided targets are not in the model vocab, they will be tokenized and the first resulting token will be used (with a warning, and that might be slower).

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Last UpdatedAugust 2025

PublisherHuggingFace

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