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Nicolas-BZRD

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AI & ML interests

PhD Student | NLP - LLMs - Adaptation real-world problem Optimization

Recent Activity

upvoted a changelog about 3 hours ago

Introducing Kernels

liked a Space about 4 hours ago

hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard

updated a collection about 5 hours ago

BERT-as-a-Judge

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Organizations

Nicolas-BZRD 's collections 8

BidirLM

BidirLM is a family of 5 frontier bidirectional encoders, including an omnimodal variant at 2.5B.

BidirLM: From Text to Omnimodal Bidirectional Encoders by Adapting and Composing Causal LLMs

Paper • 2604.02045 • Published 14 days ago • 33
BidirLM/BidirLM-Omni-2.5B-Embedding

Sentence Similarity • 2B • Updated about 3 hours ago • 2.94k • 9
BidirLM/BidirLM-1.7B-Embedding

Sentence Similarity • 2B • Updated 1 day ago • 68 • 3
BidirLM/BidirLM-1B-Embedding

Sentence Similarity • 1.0B • Updated 1 day ago • 317 • 1

EuroLLM 🇪🇺

EuroLLM-22B: Technical Report

Paper • 2602.05879 • Published Feb 5 • 3
EuroLLM-9B: Technical Report

Paper • 2506.04079 • Published Jun 4, 2025 • 1
utter-project/EuroLLM-22B-Instruct-2512

Text Generation • 23B • Updated Feb 6 • 3.28k • • 63
utter-project/EuroLLM-9B-Instruct

Text Generation • Updated Dec 9, 2024 • 10.4k • 204

BERT-as-a-Judge

BERT-as-a-Judge: A Robust Alternative to Lexical Methods for Efficient Reference-Based LLM Evaluation

Paper • 2604.09497 • Published 6 days ago • 19
artefactory/BERTJudge

0.2B • Updated about 9 hours ago • 18 • 1
artefactory/BERTJudge-Dataset

Updated 2 days ago • 443 • 1
BERT-as-a-Judge

Collection

9 items • Updated about 10 hours ago • 2

MLM vs CLM

Should We Still Pretrain Encoders with Masked Language Modeling?

Should We Still Pretrain Encoders with Masked Language Modeling?

Paper • 2507.00994 • Published Jul 1, 2025 • 81
MLM vs CLM

Collection

65 items • Updated Sep 25, 2025 • 1

EuroBERT 🇪🇺

Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages.

EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages

Paper • 2503.05500 • Published Mar 7, 2025 • 81
EuroBERT/EuroBERT-210m

Fill-Mask • 0.3B • Updated Oct 18, 2025 • 8.65k • 83
EuroBERT/EuroBERT-610m

Fill-Mask • 0.8B • Updated Oct 18, 2025 • 1.62k • 34
EuroBERT/EuroBERT-2.1B

Fill-Mask • 2B • Updated Oct 18, 2025 • 1.07k • 67

CroissantLLM 🥐

CroissantLLM: A Truly Bilingual French-English Language Model

CroissantLLM: A Truly Bilingual French-English Language Model

Paper • 2402.00786 • Published Feb 1, 2024 • 26
croissantllm/CroissantLLMChat-v0.1

Text Generation • 1B • Updated Apr 26, 2024 • 4.05k • 52
croissantllm/CroissantLLMBase

Text Generation • Updated Aug 30, 2024 • 1.2k • 34
croissantllm/croissant_dataset

Viewer • Updated Oct 3, 2024 • 16.7B • 798 • 7

When Does Reasoning Matter?

A Controlled Study of Reasoning's Contribution to Model Performance.

When Does Reasoning Matter? A Controlled Study of Reasoning's Contribution to Model Performance

Paper • 2509.22193 • Published Sep 26, 2025 • 38
When-Does-Reasoning-Matter/general-reasoning-ift-pairs

Viewer • Updated Sep 29, 2025 • 2.97M • 194 • 4
When-Does-Reasoning-Matter/math-reasoning-ift-pairs

Viewer • Updated Oct 27, 2025 • 458k • 143 • 8

ULD Loss (Universal LLMs Distillation)

The ULD loss, based on optimal transport, enables distillation across different LLM families without requiring shared tokenizers.

Towards Cross-Tokenizer Distillation: the Universal Logit Distillation Loss for LLMs

Paper • 2402.12030 • Published Feb 19, 2024 • 3
mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

Text Generation • 7B • Updated Jul 24, 2025 • 2.26M • • 3.12k
meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf

Text Generation • Updated Apr 17, 2024 • 435k • 4.73k
EleutherAI/pythia-160m-deduped

Text Generation • 0.2B • Updated Jul 9, 2023 • 100k • 3

BidirLM

BidirLM is a family of 5 frontier bidirectional encoders, including an omnimodal variant at 2.5B.

BidirLM: From Text to Omnimodal Bidirectional Encoders by Adapting and Composing Causal LLMs

Paper • 2604.02045 • Published 14 days ago • 33
BidirLM/BidirLM-Omni-2.5B-Embedding

Sentence Similarity • 2B • Updated about 3 hours ago • 2.94k • 9
BidirLM/BidirLM-1.7B-Embedding

Sentence Similarity • 2B • Updated 1 day ago • 68 • 3
BidirLM/BidirLM-1B-Embedding

Sentence Similarity • 1.0B • Updated 1 day ago • 317 • 1

EuroBERT 🇪🇺

Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages.

EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages

Paper • 2503.05500 • Published Mar 7, 2025 • 81
EuroBERT/EuroBERT-210m

Fill-Mask • 0.3B • Updated Oct 18, 2025 • 8.65k • 83
EuroBERT/EuroBERT-610m

Fill-Mask • 0.8B • Updated Oct 18, 2025 • 1.62k • 34
EuroBERT/EuroBERT-2.1B

Fill-Mask • 2B • Updated Oct 18, 2025 • 1.07k • 67

EuroLLM 🇪🇺

EuroLLM-22B: Technical Report

Paper • 2602.05879 • Published Feb 5 • 3
EuroLLM-9B: Technical Report

Paper • 2506.04079 • Published Jun 4, 2025 • 1
utter-project/EuroLLM-22B-Instruct-2512

Text Generation • 23B • Updated Feb 6 • 3.28k • • 63
utter-project/EuroLLM-9B-Instruct

Text Generation • Updated Dec 9, 2024 • 10.4k • 204

CroissantLLM 🥐

CroissantLLM: A Truly Bilingual French-English Language Model

CroissantLLM: A Truly Bilingual French-English Language Model

Paper • 2402.00786 • Published Feb 1, 2024 • 26
croissantllm/CroissantLLMChat-v0.1

Text Generation • 1B • Updated Apr 26, 2024 • 4.05k • 52
croissantllm/CroissantLLMBase

Text Generation • Updated Aug 30, 2024 • 1.2k • 34
croissantllm/croissant_dataset

Viewer • Updated Oct 3, 2024 • 16.7B • 798 • 7

BERT-as-a-Judge

BERT-as-a-Judge: A Robust Alternative to Lexical Methods for Efficient Reference-Based LLM Evaluation

Paper • 2604.09497 • Published 6 days ago • 19
artefactory/BERTJudge

0.2B • Updated about 9 hours ago • 18 • 1
artefactory/BERTJudge-Dataset

Updated 2 days ago • 443 • 1
BERT-as-a-Judge

Collection

9 items • Updated about 10 hours ago • 2

When Does Reasoning Matter?

A Controlled Study of Reasoning's Contribution to Model Performance.

When Does Reasoning Matter? A Controlled Study of Reasoning's Contribution to Model Performance

Paper • 2509.22193 • Published Sep 26, 2025 • 38
When-Does-Reasoning-Matter/general-reasoning-ift-pairs

Viewer • Updated Sep 29, 2025 • 2.97M • 194 • 4
When-Does-Reasoning-Matter/math-reasoning-ift-pairs

Viewer • Updated Oct 27, 2025 • 458k • 143 • 8

MLM vs CLM

Should We Still Pretrain Encoders with Masked Language Modeling?

Should We Still Pretrain Encoders with Masked Language Modeling?

Paper • 2507.00994 • Published Jul 1, 2025 • 81
MLM vs CLM

Collection

65 items • Updated Sep 25, 2025 • 1

ULD Loss (Universal LLMs Distillation)

The ULD loss, based on optimal transport, enables distillation across different LLM families without requiring shared tokenizers.

Towards Cross-Tokenizer Distillation: the Universal Logit Distillation Loss for LLMs

Paper • 2402.12030 • Published Feb 19, 2024 • 3
mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

Text Generation • 7B • Updated Jul 24, 2025 • 2.26M • • 3.12k
meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf

Text Generation • Updated Apr 17, 2024 • 435k • 4.73k
EleutherAI/pythia-160m-deduped

Text Generation • 0.2B • Updated Jul 9, 2023 • 100k • 3