German monolingual base model continued on the SciLaD target-language split as a 15k-step control baseline.
Model Details
This is a monolingual continued-pretraining control checkpoint reported in the paper table. It is provided for reproducibility of the baseline comparison.
Zero-shot Global-MMLU accuracy reported by the paper aggregation:
Metric
Accuracy
Average
22.95
STEM
21.25
Humanities
24.21
Social Sciences
21.71
Other
23.98
Limitations
The model is evaluated primarily with zero-shot Global-MMLU. Downstream task-specific
evaluation is recommended before deployment in specialized scientific workflows.
Citation
Title: Transferring Scientific English Pre-Trained Language Models to Multiple Languages Using Cross-Lingual Transfer
Authors: Nikolas Rauscher, Fabio Barth, Georg Rehm
Venue: LREC-COLING 2026, citation details TBA after publication