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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by roryirvine on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:24AM (#50377466)
Am I the only one to feel sad that the name means "Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration", rather than being a homage to a very famous 1950s random number generator?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_Bonds#ERNIE

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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by jojogeo on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:49AM (#50377643)
For me I see ERNIE as BERT's long time friend and room mate.
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Re:Baidu dropped ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base by cubefox on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:56AM (#50377691)
It's a homage to BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), Google's influential 2018 Transformer model that wasn't autoregressive. https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805v2
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