diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dcebf15c..e3f380f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -177,8 +177,8 @@ installation instructions/support.
 
 Most architectures (including encoders, decoders and encoder-decoders) are
 supported. the library aims at keeping compatibility with models exported using
-the [optimum](https://github.com/huggingface/optimum) library. A detailed guide
-on how to export a Transformer model to ONNX using optimum is available at
+the [Optimum](https://github.com/huggingface/optimum) library. A detailed guide
+on how to export a Transformer model to ONNX using Optimum is available at
 https://huggingface.co/docs/optimum/main/en/exporters/onnx/usage_guides/export_a_model
 The resources used to create ONNX models are similar to those based on Pytorch,
 replacing the pytorch by the ONNX model. Since ONNX models are less flexible
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ Note that the computational efficiency will drop when the `decoder with past`
 file is optional but not provided since the model will not used cached past keys
 and values for the attention mechanism, leading to a high number of redundant
 computations. The Optimum library offers export options to ensure such a
-`decoder with past` model file is created. he base encoder and decoder model
+`decoder with past` model file is created. The base encoder and decoder model
 architecture are available (and exposed for convenience) in the `encoder` and
 `decoder` modules, respectively.
 
diff --git a/examples/async-sentiment.rs b/examples/async-sentiment.rs
index 9232773a..f3342d1a 100644
--- a/examples/async-sentiment.rs
+++ b/examples/async-sentiment.rs
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-use std::{
-    sync::mpsc,
-    thread::{self, JoinHandle},
-};
+use std::sync::mpsc;
 
 use anyhow::Result;
 use rust_bert::pipelines::sentiment::{Sentiment, SentimentConfig, SentimentModel};
-use tokio::{sync::oneshot, task};
+use tokio::{
+    sync::oneshot,
+    task::{self, JoinHandle},
+};
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> Result<()> {
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ impl SentimentClassifier {
     /// to interact with it
     pub fn spawn() -> (JoinHandle<Result<()>>, SentimentClassifier) {
         let (sender, receiver) = mpsc::sync_channel(100);
-        let handle = thread::spawn(move || Self::runner(receiver));
+        let handle = task::spawn_blocking(move || Self::runner(receiver));
         (handle, SentimentClassifier { sender })
     }
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ impl SentimentClassifier {
     /// Make the runner predict a sample and return the result
     pub async fn predict(&self, texts: Vec<String>) -> Result<Vec<Sentiment>> {
         let (sender, receiver) = oneshot::channel();
-        task::block_in_place(|| self.sender.send((texts, sender)))?;
+        self.sender.send((texts, sender))?;
         Ok(receiver.await?)
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index aebc99ac..511348d1 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -360,15 +360,15 @@
 //! # use rust_bert::pipelines::zero_shot_classification::ZeroShotClassificationModel;
 //! # fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 //! let sequence_classification_model = ZeroShotClassificationModel::new(Default::default())?;
-//!  let input_sentence = "Who are you voting for in 2020?";
-//!  let input_sequence_2 = "The prime minister has announced a stimulus package which was widely criticized by the opposition.";
-//!  let candidate_labels = &["politics", "public health", "economics", "sports"];
-//!  let output = sequence_classification_model.predict_multilabel(
-//!      &[input_sentence, input_sequence_2],
-//!      candidate_labels,
-//!      None,
-//!      128,
-//!  );
+//! let input_sentence = "Who are you voting for in 2020?";
+//! let input_sequence_2 = "The prime minister has announced a stimulus package which was widely criticized by the opposition.";
+//! let candidate_labels = &["politics", "public health", "economics", "sports"];
+//! let output = sequence_classification_model.predict_multilabel(
+//!     &[input_sentence, input_sequence_2],
+//!     candidate_labels,
+//!     None,
+//!     128,
+//! );
 //! # Ok(())
 //! # }
 //! ```
diff --git a/src/models/bert/bert_model.rs b/src/models/bert/bert_model.rs
index 09b2e58f..a45f08e2 100644
--- a/src/models/bert/bert_model.rs
+++ b/src/models/bert/bert_model.rs
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ impl BertModelResources {
         "bert/model",
         "https://huggingface.co/bert-base-uncased/resolve/main/rust_model.ot",
     );
+    /// Shared under Apache 2.0 license by the Google team at <https://github.com/google-research/bert>. Modified with conversion to C-array format.
+    pub const BERT_LARGE: (&'static str, &'static str) = (
+        "bert-large/model",
+        "https://huggingface.co/bert-large-uncased/resolve/main/rust_model.ot",
+    );
     /// Shared under MIT license by the MDZ Digital Library team at the Bavarian State Library at <https://github.com/dbmdz/berts>. Modified with conversion to C-array format.
     pub const BERT_NER: (&'static str, &'static str) = (
         "bert-ner/model",
@@ -75,6 +80,11 @@ impl BertConfigResources {
         "bert/config",
         "https://huggingface.co/bert-base-uncased/resolve/main/config.json",
     );
+    /// Shared under Apache 2.0 license by the Google team at <https://github.com/google-research/bert>. Modified with conversion to C-array format.
+    pub const BERT_LARGE: (&'static str, &'static str) = (
+        "bert-large/config",
+        "https://huggingface.co/bert-large-uncased/resolve/main/config.json",
+    );
     /// Shared under MIT license by the MDZ Digital Library team at the Bavarian State Library at <https://github.com/dbmdz/berts>. Modified with conversion to C-array format.
     pub const BERT_NER: (&'static str, &'static str) = (
         "bert-ner/config",
@@ -108,6 +118,11 @@ impl BertVocabResources {
         "bert/vocab",
         "https://huggingface.co/bert-base-uncased/resolve/main/vocab.txt",
     );
+    /// Shared under Apache 2.0 license by the Google team at <https://github.com/google-research/bert>. Modified with conversion to C-array format.
+    pub const BERT_LARGE: (&'static str, &'static str) = (
+        "bert-large/vocab",
+        "https://huggingface.co/bert-large-uncased/resolve/main/vocab.txt",
+    );
     /// Shared under MIT license by the MDZ Digital Library team at the Bavarian State Library at <https://github.com/dbmdz/berts>. Modified with conversion to C-array format.
     pub const BERT_NER: (&'static str, &'static str) = (
         "bert-ner/vocab",
diff --git a/src/pipelines/masked_language.rs b/src/pipelines/masked_language.rs
index 2a3c4319..f83699c7 100644
--- a/src/pipelines/masked_language.rs
+++ b/src/pipelines/masked_language.rs
@@ -15,15 +15,15 @@
 //! a masked word can be specified in the `MaskedLanguageConfig` (`mask_token`). and allows
 //! multiple masked tokens per input sequence.
 //!
-//!  ```no_run
-//!use rust_bert::bert::{BertConfigResources, BertModelResources, BertVocabResources};
-//!use rust_bert::pipelines::common::ModelType;
-//!use rust_bert::pipelines::masked_language::{MaskedLanguageConfig, MaskedLanguageModel};
-//!use rust_bert::resources::RemoteResource;
-//! fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+//! ```no_run
+//! use rust_bert::bert::{BertConfigResources, BertModelResources, BertVocabResources};
+//! use rust_bert::pipelines::common::ModelType;
+//! use rust_bert::pipelines::masked_language::{MaskedLanguageConfig, MaskedLanguageModel};
+//! use rust_bert::resources::RemoteResource;
 //!
+//! fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 //!     use rust_bert::pipelines::common::ModelResource;
-//! let config = MaskedLanguageConfig::new(
+//!     let config = MaskedLanguageConfig::new(
 //!         ModelType::Bert,
 //!         ModelResource::Torch(Box::new(RemoteResource::from_pretrained(BertModelResources::BERT))),
 //!         RemoteResource::from_pretrained(BertConfigResources::BERT),
diff --git a/src/pipelines/mod.rs b/src/pipelines/mod.rs
index e886d69d..8bda080d 100644
--- a/src/pipelines/mod.rs
+++ b/src/pipelines/mod.rs
@@ -205,15 +205,15 @@
 //! # use rust_bert::pipelines::zero_shot_classification::ZeroShotClassificationModel;
 //! # fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 //! let sequence_classification_model = ZeroShotClassificationModel::new(Default::default())?;
-//!  let input_sentence = "Who are you voting for in 2020?";
-//!  let input_sequence_2 = "The prime minister has announced a stimulus package which was widely criticized by the opposition.";
-//!  let candidate_labels = &["politics", "public health", "economics", "sports"];
-//!  let output = sequence_classification_model.predict_multilabel(
-//!      &[input_sentence, input_sequence_2],
-//!      candidate_labels,
-//!      None,
-//!      128,
-//!  );
+//! let input_sentence = "Who are you voting for in 2020?";
+//! let input_sequence_2 = "The prime minister has announced a stimulus package which was widely criticized by the opposition.";
+//! let candidate_labels = &["politics", "public health", "economics", "sports"];
+//! let output = sequence_classification_model.predict_multilabel(
+//!     &[input_sentence, input_sequence_2],
+//!     candidate_labels,
+//!     None,
+//!     128,
+//! );
 //! # Ok(())
 //! # }
 //! ```
diff --git a/src/pipelines/zero_shot_classification.rs b/src/pipelines/zero_shot_classification.rs
index 642bc35f..8cdb16bc 100644
--- a/src/pipelines/zero_shot_classification.rs
+++ b/src/pipelines/zero_shot_classification.rs
@@ -25,15 +25,15 @@
 //! # use rust_bert::pipelines::zero_shot_classification::ZeroShotClassificationModel;
 //! # fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
 //! let sequence_classification_model = ZeroShotClassificationModel::new(Default::default())?;
-//!  let input_sentence = "Who are you voting for in 2020?";
-//!  let input_sequence_2 = "The prime minister has announced a stimulus package which was widely criticized by the opposition.";
-//!  let candidate_labels = &["politics", "public health", "economics", "sports"];
-//!  let output = sequence_classification_model.predict_multilabel(
-//!      &[input_sentence, input_sequence_2],
-//!      candidate_labels,
-//!      None,
-//!      128,
-//!  );
+//! let input_sentence = "Who are you voting for in 2020?";
+//! let input_sequence_2 = "The prime minister has announced a stimulus package which was widely criticized by the opposition.";
+//! let candidate_labels = &["politics", "public health", "economics", "sports"];
+//! let output = sequence_classification_model.predict_multilabel(
+//!     &[input_sentence, input_sequence_2],
+//!     candidate_labels,
+//!     None,
+//!     128,
+//! );
 //! # Ok(())
 //! # }
 //! ```