How to pronounce ModernBERT

ModernBERT is most commonly pronounced "MOD ern bert" (/ˈmɒdərnbɜːrt/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

2024 modernized BERT-style encoder (8k context, RoPE, FlashAttention, GeGLU). Spoken MOD-ern-BERT — "BERT" as the single word "bert", never spelled out B-E-R-T.

Source: ModernBERT paper (arXiv 2412.13663)

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