OGBert-110M-Base

A 110M parameter ModernBERT-based masked language model trained on glossary and domain-specific text.

Related models:

• mjbommar/ogbert-110m-sentence - Sentence embedding version with mean pooling + L2 normalization

Model Details

Training

• Task: Masked Language Modeling (MLM)
• Dataset: mjbommar/ogbert-v1-mlm - derived from OpenGloss, a synthetic encyclopedic dictionary with 537K senses across 150K lexemes
• Masking: Standard 15% token masking
• Training steps: 8,000 steps (selected for optimal downstream performance)
• Tokens processed: ~4.5B
• Batch size: 1,024
• Peak learning rate: 3e-4

Performance

Word Similarity (SimLex-999)

SimLex-999 measures Spearman correlation between model cosine similarities and human judgments on 999 word pairs. Higher = better alignment with human perception of word similarity.

OGBert-110M-Base achieves 5x better word similarity than BERT-base with the same parameter count.

Document Clustering

Evaluated on 80 domain-specific documents across 10 categories using KMeans.

OGBert-110M-Base matches or exceeds RoBERTa-base on clustering tasks.

Usage

Fill-Mask Pipeline

from transformers import pipeline

fill_mask = pipeline('fill-mask', model='mjbommar/ogbert-110m-base')
result = fill_mask('The financial <|mask|> was approved.')

Direct Model Usage

from transformers import AutoModelForMaskedLM, AutoTokenizer

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained('mjbommar/ogbert-110m-base')
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained('mjbommar/ogbert-110m-base')

inputs = tokenizer('The <|mask|> definition is clear.', return_tensors='pt')
outputs = model(**inputs)

For Sentence Embeddings

Use mjbommar/ogbert-110m-sentence instead, which includes mean pooling and L2 normalization for optimal similarity search.

Citation

If you use this model, please cite the OpenGloss dataset:

@article{bommarito2025opengloss,
  title={OpenGloss: A Synthetic Encyclopedic Dictionary and Semantic Knowledge Graph},
  author={Bommarito II, Michael J.},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.18622},
  year={2025}
}

License

Apache 2.0