language encoder
mmBERT small
mmBERT small, a checkpoint of the mmBERT family. Modern multilingual encoder trained on text in over 1,800 languages, a ModernBERT-style successor to XLM-R for classification and retrieval.
Levelvariant
Classlanguage encoder
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released21 Aug 2025
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive
Identity
- Developer
- Johns Hopkins University (CLSP)
- Family
- mmBERT
- Released
- 21 Aug 2025 sourcesregistry date
- Weights published
- –
- Record checked
- 12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.
Architecture and Size
- Architecture
- dense transformer
- Total parameters
- – sources
- Active parameters
- –
- Checkpoint parameters
- –
- Context length
- not in the notes
- Input
- text
- Output
- text
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).
Openness and Access
- Openness
- open weights permissive
- Licence
- MIT License sources
- Access routes
- open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.
Deployment
- Runs on
- not in the notes
- Footprint
- not in the notes
- Runtimes
- not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.
Indonesia
- Indonesian support
- listed by developer
- Regional languages
- Acehnese, Balinese, Banjar, Buginese, Javanese, Madurese, Minangkabau, Sundanese, Malay
- Jakarta hosting
- unknown
- Languages
- Model card lists 1811 languages, including Indonesian
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.
Benchmark Results
The notes record no benchmark result for this model.
Lineage
The notes record no lineage for this model.
Industry Use Cases
No industry use case links this model.
Links
ModelmmBERT smallJohns Hopkins University (CLSP), language encoder
mmBERT smallJohns Hopkins University (CLSP), language encoderR&D TopicsMultilingual and Regional Text Encoders
Use CasesIndonesian NLU (Classification, NER)Public SectorUse cases of models in the same R&D topic; none is recorded for this model itself.
Who Runs Itnone recordedDeployments of these use cases; none names this model.
Organisations 1
Sources
- huggingface.co/jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small https://huggingface.co/jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small
- huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=fill-mask&sort=likes&... https://huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=fill-mask&sort=likes&limit=50
To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "mmBERT Small", https://aurion.semai.id/models/jhu-clsp-mmbert-small/, records of October 2026.