---
language: lv
license: apache-2.0
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: fill-mask
tags:
  - latvian
  - encoder
  - masked-lm
  - modernbert
---

# Latvian ModernBERT large model

Latvian ModernBERT text encoder model, released with the paper **"Pretraining and Benchmarking Modern Encoders for Latvian"**.

For evaluation code and benchmark results, see:
https://github.com/LUMII-AILab/latvian-encoders

## Citation

```bibtex
@inproceedings{znotins-2026-modern_lv_encoders,
    title = "Pretraining and Benchmarking Modern Encoders for {L}atvian",
    author = "Znotins, Arturs",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages ({LoResLM})",
    year = "2026",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.loreslm-1.40/",
    pages = "461--470"
}
```

## See also

- https://huggingface.co/AiLab-IMCS-UL/lv-mbert-base
- https://huggingface.co/AiLab-IMCS-UL/lv-roberta-base
- https://huggingface.co/AiLab-IMCS-UL/lv-deberta-base


## Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility project [Language Technology Initiative](https://www.vti.lu.lv) (2.3.1.1.i.0/1/22/I/CFLA/002).