PhoBERT: Pre-trained language models for Vietnamese

Abstract

We present PhoBERT with two versions—PhoBERTbase and PhoBERTlarge—the first public large-scale monolingual language models pre-trained for Vietnamese. Experimental results show that PhoBERT consistently outperforms the recent best pre-trained multilingual model XLM-R (Conneau et al., 2020) and improves the state-of-the-art in multiple Vietnamese-specific NLP tasks including Part-of-speech tagging, Dependency parsing, Named-entity recognition and Natural language inference. We release PhoBERT to facilitate future research and downstream applications for Vietnamese NLP. Our PhoBERT models are available at: https://github.com/VinAIResearch/PhoBERT.