The Overall score is calculated as the macro-average performance over tasks. Details can be found within our publication.

Rank Model BLURB Score
(Macro Avg.)
Micro Avg. NER PICO RE SS Class. QA
1 BioLinkBERT-Large — Stanford
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84.30 84.80 86.89 74.19 82.74 93.63 84.88 83.50
2 BioM-ALBERT-xxlarge-PMC — University of Delaware
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84.10 84.41 85.30 73.48 83.14 94.44 83.06 85.20
3 BioM-ELECTRA-Large — University of Delaware
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83.81 84.67 86.88 73.67 83.17 91.09 84.03 84.00
4 BioM-BERT-PMC-Large — University of Delaware
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83.63 84.24 85.70 73.87 83.27 91.04 83.91 84.00
5 BioLinkBERT-Base — Stanford
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83.39 83.84 86.39 73.97 81.56 93.27 84.35 80.81
6 BioM-ALBERT-xxlarge — University of Delaware
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82.97 83.71 85.25 73.51 82.69 89.97 82.40 83.99
7 MSR BiomedBERT-LARGE (fine-tuning stabilization; uncased; abstracts) — Microsoft Research
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82.91 83.58 86.28 73.61 81.77 92.73 82.70 80.37
8 MSR BiomedBERT (fine-tuning stabilization; uncased; abstracts) — Microsoft Research
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82.75 83.24 86.17 73.45 81.53 94.49 83.02 77.86
9 BioELECTRA-Base — Saama Research
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82.60 83.19 86.67 74.13 81.44 92.76 84.20 76.38
10 BioM-ELECTRA-Base — University of Delaware
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82.46 83.25 86.18 74.23 82.19 89.67 84.14 78.37
11 MSR BiomedBERT (uncased; abstracts + full text) — Microsoft Research
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81.50 82.18 86.13 73.72 80.59 92.31 82.62 73.61
12 MSR BiomedBERT (uncased; abstracts) — Microsoft Research
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81.16 81.95 86.08 73.38 81.19 92.30 82.32 71.70
13 BioBERT (cased)
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80.34 81.31 85.81 73.18 79.79 89.52 81.54 72.19
14 Scibert (uncased)
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78.86 80.16 85.43 73.12 79.56 86.25 80.66 68.12
15 Scibert (cased)
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78.14 79.38 85.47 73.06 79.19 87.15 81.16 62.81
16 ClinicalBERT (cased)
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77.29 77.87 83.99 72.06 76.91 91.23 80.74 58.79
17 RoBERTa (cased)
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76.46 77.74 83.09 73.02 77.71 81.25 79.66 64.02
18 BlueBERT (cased)
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76.27 77.42 84.50 72.54 76.13 85.38 80.48 58.57
19 BERT base (uncased)
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76.11 77.27 82.99 72.34 77.44 82.68 80.20 60.99
20 BERT base (cased)
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75.86 77.13 82.90 71.70 76.83 81.40 80.12 62.20
21 Unicoder base (multilingual)
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73.60 76.45 83.99 73.28 76.88 75.97 68.96 62.52