Awesome PLM for Scientific Text (SciLM)

Resources for the paper: A Survey of Pre-trained Language Models for Processing Scientific Text

The Evolutionary tree of SciLMs

Table of Contents

• Related survey papers
• Existing SciLMs
  • Biomedical Domain
  • Chemical Domain
  • Multi-domain
  • Other Scientific Domains
• Awesome scientific datasets

Related survey papers

• A Survey of Large Language Models - arXiv 2023
• Large-scale Multi-Modal Pre-trained Models: A Comprehensive Survey - Accepted by Machine Intelligence Research 2023
• Pre-trained Language Models in Biomedical Domain: A Systematic Survey - Accepted in ACM Computing Surveys 2023
• AMMU: A survey of transformer-based biomedical pretrained language models - Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2022
• Pre-Trained Language Models and Their Applications - Engineering, 2022
• Pre-trained models: Past, present and future - AI Open, Volume 2, 2021

Existing SciLMs

Biomedical Domain

No.	Year	Name	Base-model	Objective	#Parameters	Code
1	2019/01	BioBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
2	2019/02	BERT-MIMIC	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M, 340M	N/A
3	2019/04	BioELMo	ELMo	Bi-LM	93.6M	GitHub
4	2019/04	Clinical BERT (Emily)	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
5	2019/04	ClinicalBERT (Kexin)	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
6	2019/06	BlueBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M, 340M	GitHub
7	2019/06	G-BERT	GNN + BERT	Self-Prediction, Dual-Prediction	3M	GitHub
8	2019/07	BEHRT	BERT	MLM, NSP	N/A	GitHub
9	2019/08	BioFLAIR	FLAIR	Bi-LM	N/A	GitHub
10	2019/09	EhrBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
11	2019/12	Clinical XLNet	XLNet	Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining	110M	GitHub
12	2020/04	GreenBioBERT	BERT	CBOW Word2Vec, Word Vector Space Alignment	110M	GitHub
13	2020/05	BERT-XML	BERT	MLM, NSP	N/A	N/A
14	2020/05	Bio-ELECTRA	ELECTRA	Replaced Token Prediction	14M	GitHub
15	2020/05	Med-BERT	BERT	MLM, Prolonged LOS Prediction	110M	GitHub
16	2020/05	ouBioBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
17	2020/07	PubMedBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP, Whole-Word Masking	110M	HuggingFace
18	2020/08	MCBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M, 340M	GitHub
19	2020/09	BioALBERT	ALBERT	MLM, SOP	12M, 18M	GitHub
20	2020/09	BRLTM	BERT	MLM	N/A	GitHub
21	2020/10	BioMegatron	Megatron	MLM, NSP	345M, 800M, 1.2B	GitHub
22	2020/10	CharacterBERT	BERT + Character-CNN	MLM, NSP	105M	GitHub
23	2020/10	ClinicalTransformer	BERT - ALBERT - RoBERTa - ELECTRA	MLM, NSP - MLM, SOP - MLM - Replaced Token Prediction	110M - 12M - 125M - 110M	GitHub
24	2020/10	SapBERT	BERT	Multi-Similarity Loss	110M	GitHub
25	2020/10	UmlsBERT	BERT	MLM	110M	GitHub
26	2020/11	bert-for-radiology	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
27	2020/11	Bio-LM	RoBERTa	MLM	125M, 355M	GitHub
28	2020/11	CODER	PubMedBERT - mBERT	Contrastive Learning	110M - 110M	GitHub
29	2020/11	exBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	N/A	GitHub
30	2020/12	BioMedBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	340M	GitHub
31	2020/12	LBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
32	2021/04	CovidBERT	BioBERT	MLM, NSP	110M	N/A
33	2021/04	ELECTRAMed	ELECTRA	Replaced Token Prediction	N/A	GitHub
34	2021/04	KeBioLM	PubMedBERT	MLM, Entity Detection, Entity Linking	110M	GitHub
35	2021/04	SINA-BERT	BERT	MLM	110M	N/A
36	2021/05	ProteinBERT	BERT	Corrupted Token, Annotation Prediction	16M	GitHub
37	2021/05	SciFive	T5	Span Corruption Prediction	220M, 770M	GitHub
38	2021/06	BioELECTRA	ELECTRA	Replaced Token Prediction	110M	GitHub
39	2021/06	EntityBERT	BERT	Entity-centric MLM	110M	N/A
40	2021/07	MedGPT	GPT-2 + GLU + RotaryEmbed	LM	N/A	N/A
41	2021/08	SMedBERT	SMedBERT	Masked Neighbor Modeling, Masked Mention Modeling, SOP, MLM	N/A	GitHub
42	2021/09	Bio-cli	RoBERTa	MLM, Subword Masking or Whole Word Masking	125M	GitHub
43	2021/11	UTH-BERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
44	2021/12	ChestXRayBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	N/A
45	2021/12	MedRoBERTa.nl	RoBERTa	MLM	123M	GitHub
46	2021/12	PubMedELECTRA	ELECTRA	Replaced Token Prediction	110M, 335M	HuggingFace
47	2022/01	Clinical-BigBird	BigBird	MLM	166M	GitHub
48	2022/01	Clinical-Longformer	Longformer	MLM	149M	GitHub
49	2022/03	BioLinkBERT	BERT	MLM, Document Relation Prediction	110M, 340M	GitHub
50	2022/04	BioBART	BART	Text Infilling, Sentence Permutation	140M, 400M	GitHub
51	2022/05	bsc-bio-ehr-es	RoBERTa	MLM	125M	GitHub
52	2022/05	PathologyBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	HuggingFace
53	2022/06	RadBERT	RoBERTa	MLM	110M	GitHub
54	2022/06	ViHealthBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP, Capitalized Prediction	110M	GitHub
55	2022/07	Clinical Flair	Flair	Character-level Bi-LM	N/A	GitHub
56	2022/08	KM-BERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	99M	GitHub
57	2022/09	BioGPT	GPT	Autoregressive Language Model	347M, 1.5B	GitHub
58	2022/10	Bioberturk	BERT	MLM, NSP	N/A	GitHub
59	2022/10	DRAGON	GreaseLM	MLM, KG Link Prediction	360M	GitHub
60	2022/10	UCSF-BERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	135M	N/A
61	2022/10	ViPubmedT5	ViT5	Spans-masking learning	220M	GitHub
62	2022/12	ALIBERT	BERT	MLM	110M	N/A
63	2022/12	BioMedLM	GPT2	Autoregressive Language Model	2.7B	GitHub
64	2022/12	BioReader	T5 & RETRO	MLM	229.5M	GitHub
65	2022/12	clinicalT5	T5	Span-mask Denoising Objective	220M, 770M	N/A
66	2022/12	Gatortron	BERT	MLM	8.9B	GitHub
67	2022/12	Med-PaLM	Flan-PaLM	Instruction Prompt Tuning	540B	Official Site
68	2023/01	clinical-T5	T5	Fill-in-the-blank-style denoising objective	220M, 770M	PhysioNet
69	2023/01	CPT-BigBird	BigBird	MLM	166M	N/A
70	2023/01	CPT-Longformer	Longformer	MLM	149M	N/A
71	2023/02	Bioformer	Bioformer	MLM, NSP	43M	GitHub
72	2023/02	Lightweight	DistilBERT	MLM, Knowledge Distillation	65M, 25M, 18M, 15M	GitHub
73	2023/03	RAMM	PubmedBERT	MLM, Contrastive Learning, Image-Text Matching	N/A	GitHub
74	2023/04	DrBERT	RoBERTa	MLM	110M	GitHub
75	2023/04	MOTOR	BLIP	MLM, Contrastive Learning, Image-Text Matching	N/A	GitHub
76	2023/05	BiomedGPT	BART backbone + BERT-encoder + GPT-decoder	MLM	33M, 93M, 182M	GitHub
77	2023/05	TurkRadBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	N/A
78	2023/06	CamemBERT-bio	BERT	Whole Word MLM	111M	HuggingFace
79	2023/06	ClinicalGPT	T5	Supervised Fine Tuning, Rank-based Training	N/A	N/A
80	2023/06	EriBERTa	RoBERTa	MLM	125M	N/A
81	2023/06	PharmBERT	BERT	MLM	110M	GitHub
82	2023/07	BioNART	BERT	Non-AutoRegressive Model	110M	GitHub
83	2023/07	BIOptimus	BERT	MLM	110M	GitHub
84	2023/07	KEBLM	BERT	MLM, Contrastive Learning, Ranking Objective	N/A	N/A
85	2023/09	CPLLM	Llama2	Autoregressive Language Model, Supervised Fine Tuning	13B	GitHub
86	2023/11	MedCPT	BERT	Contrastive Learning, Ranking Objective	110M	GitHub

Chemical Domain

No.	Year	Name	Base-model	Objective	#Parameters	Code
1	2020/03	NukeBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
2	2020/10	ChemBERTa	RoBERTa	MLM	125M	GitHub
3	2021/05	NukeLM	SciBERT, RoBERTa	MLM	125M, 355M, 110M	GitHub
4	2021/06	ChemBERT	RoBERTa	MLM	110M	GitHub
5	2021/09	MatSciBERT	BERT	MLM	110M	GitHub
6	2021/10	MatBERT	BERT	MLM	110M	GitHub
7	2022/05	BatteryBERT	BERT, SciBERT	MLM	110M	GitHub
8	2022/05	ChemGPT	GPT	Autoregressive Language Model	1B	GitHub
9	2022/08	MaterialsBERT (Shetty)	PubMedBERT	MLM, NSP, Whole-Word Masking	110M	GitHub
10	2022/08	ProcessBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	N/A
11	2022/09	ChemBERTa-2	RoBERTa	MLM, Multi-task Regression	125M	GitHub
12	2022/09	MaterialBERT (Yoshitake)	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	MDR
13	2023/01	MolGen	BART	Seq2Seq MLM, Autoregressive Language Modeling	460M, 7B	Github
14	2023/08	GIT-Mol	GIT-Former	Xmodal-Text Matching, Xmodal-Text Contrastive Learning	700M	N/A
15	2023/10	MolCA	Galactica	Molecule Captioning, Molecule-Text Contrastive Learning	1.4B	GitHub

Multi-domain

No.	Year	Name	Base-model	Objective	#Parameters	Code
1	2019/03	SciBERT (CS + Bio)	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
2	2019/11	S2ORC-SciBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub
3	2020/04	SPECTER	BERT	Triple-loss	110M	GitHub
4	2021/03	OAG-BERT	BERT	MLM	110M	GitHub
5	2022/05	ScholarBERT	BERT	MLM	770M	HuggingFace
6	2022/06	SciDEBERTa	DeBERTa	MLM	N/A	GitHub
7	2022/09	CSL-T5	T5	Fill-in-the-blank-style denoising objective	220M	GitHub
8	2022/10	AcademicRoBERTa	RoBERTa	MLM	125M	GitHub
9	2022/11	Galactica	GPT	Autoregressive Language Model	125M, 1.3B, 6.7B, 30B, 120B	GitHub
10	2022/11	VarMAE	RoBERTa	MLM	110M	N/A
11	2022/12	SciBART	BART	MLM	124M, 386M	Github
12	2023/05	Patton	GNN + BERT	Network-contextualized MLM, Masked Node Prediction	N/A	GitHub

Other Scientific Domains

Sorted by Domain-name

No.	Year	Name	Base-model	Objective	#Parameters	Code	Domain
1	2022/04	SecureBERT	RoBERTa	MLM	125M	GitHub	Cybersecurity
2	2022/12	CySecBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	N/A	Cybersecurity
3	2021/05	MathBERT (Peng)	BERT	MLM, Masked Substructure Prediction, Context Correspondence Prediction	110M	N/A	Math
4	2021/06	MathBERT (Shen)	RoBERTa	MLM	110M	GitHub	Math
5	2021/10	ClimateBert	DistilROBERTA	MLM	66M	GitHub	Climate
6	2020/02	SciGPT2	GPT2	LM	124M	GitHub	CS
7	2023/06	K2	LLaMA	Cosine Loss	7B	GitHub	Geoscience
8	2023/03	ManuBERT	BERT	MLM	110M, 126M	HuggingFace	Manufaturing
9	2023/01	ProtST	BERT	Masked Protein Modeling, Contrastive Learning, Multi-modal Masked Prediction	N/A	GitHub	Protein
10	2023/01	SciEdBERT	BERT	MLM	110M	N/A	Science Education
11	2022/06	SsciBERT	BERT	MLM, NSP	110M	GitHub	Social Science