Renne Ruan Alves Oliveira

BERTomelo: Your Portuguese Encoder Best Friend

This work introduces BERTomelo, a next-generation monolingual encoder pre-trained from scratch and specifically optimized for the Portuguese language, which demonstrates that BERTomelo not only outperforms previous Portuguese encoders but also provides a more robust and efficient alternative to massive multilingual models in downstream tasks such as STS and NER.