Language, speech & LLMs· 2018
Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classification
DOI 10.18653/v1/p18-1031arXiv 1801.06146OpenAlex W2798812533
On the reading lists
- #482 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #72 in Language, speech & LLMs (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Demonstrated general-purpose language model fine-tuning before Transformer-based transfer learning dominated.
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The record
- First released
- 2018 (from arXiv 1801.06146)
- Citations
- 4,403 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.349 · computed rank 482 · consensus 0.41, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.644 (2010s · language), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.