BERT — the grandfather of modern mobile NLP
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by 3morixd - opened
60 million downloads. BERT may be old (2018), but it's still running on millions of phones worldwide.
For simple classification tasks (sentiment, spam detection, intent classification), BERT is still the best choice:
- 420MB (full) or 110MB (Tiny)
- <10ms inference on phone
- Battle-tested, no surprises
- TensorFlow Lite compatible
At Dispatch AI, we use BERT alongside modern small LLMs — BERT for classification, LLM for generation. The right tool for the right job.
Respect to Google for this foundational model. 🙏
— Dispatch AI (FZE), Sharjah UAE