Two consecutive ATALA thesis prize winners are both encoder-model advocates
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-09-16
antoinechaffin jokes that the two loudest advocates of encoder models happen to be consecutive ATALA thesis prize winners — "French people really just do not want to do things the way other people do" — while pointing to the closest thing yet to zero-shot BERT classification.
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