Research Center Newsletter #12 – Our Paper on Encoder training @ICLR, New PhD on Generative Retrieval, EuroBERT as foundation for jina-embeddings
We are very happy to announce that our paper, “Should We Still Pretrain Encoders with Masked Language Modeling?”, has been accepted to ICLR 2026, the top global conference on machine learning and deep learning, which will take place in Rio de Janeiro in late April !





