---
language:
- pt
- multilingual
license: apache-2.0
tags:
- gliner
- ner
- pii
- token-classification
- pt-br
- mmbert
pipeline_tag: token-classification
library_name: gliner
base_model: jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small
---

# gliner-mmbert-small-ptbr-pii-full-3x-v1

GLiNER trained **from scratch** on top of [jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small](https://huggingface.co/jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small) — a 22-layer multilingual ModernBERT (~140M params) with a 256k vocabulary — on ~984k Brazilian Portuguese PII samples for **69 000 steps** with a cosine schedule. Produces the **strongest** PT-BR PII performance in the series; beats the ettin-68m easter-egg variant by +0.14 F1_partial and +0.16 F1_exact on the cross-source 4-PII average.

**Best checkpoint: step 41 400** (selected by peak F1_partial averaged over the 4 PII sources).

## Performance

### Cross-source headline (4 PII sources)

| source | P_partial | R_partial | F1_partial | F1_exact |
|--------|-----------|-----------|------------|----------|
| gliner2_pii_ptbr_reward_split (PT-BR, alvo) | 0.734 | 0.936 | **0.823** | 0.782 |
| nemotron_pii (EN) | 0.757 | 0.954 | **0.844** | 0.825 |
| open_pii_masking_500k (multilíngua) | 0.742 | 0.933 | **0.827** | 0.771 |
| pii_masking_400k (multilíngua) | 0.707 | 0.965 | **0.816** | 0.804 |
| **4-source average** | **0.735** | **0.947** | **0.827** | **0.796** |

Negative evidence (spam/phishing, 7 sources): partial F1 = 0.000 — model correctly abstains from flagging non-PII text.

### Per-entity breakdown on gliner2_pii_ptbr_reward_split (PT-BR)

| label | P_partial | R_partial | F1_partial |
|-------|-----------|-----------|------------|
| credit card | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
| cpf document number | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
| pis document number | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 |
| rg document number | 1.000 | 0.992 | 0.996 |
| dob | 0.986 | 1.000 | 0.993 |
| phone number | 0.986 | 0.995 | 0.990 |
| email address | 0.970 | 1.000 | 0.985 |
| location zip | 0.957 | 1.000 | 0.978 |
| last name | 0.957 | 0.990 | 0.974 |
| location street | 0.951 | 0.951 | 0.951 |
| location state abbreviation | 0.812 | 0.975 | 0.886 |
| first name | 0.830 | 0.939 | 0.881 |
| location building number | 0.750 | 0.996 | 0.856 |
| location state | 0.696 | 0.990 | 0.817 |
| personal description of religious convictions | 0.750 | 0.795 | 0.772 |
| location city | 0.709 | 0.836 | 0.767 |
| personal description of organizational affiliation | 0.726 | 0.789 | 0.756 |
| middle name | 0.591 | 0.965 | 0.733 |
| personal description of ethnicity | 0.525 | 0.828 | 0.642 |
| location neighborhood | 0.380 | 0.860 | 0.527 |
| personal description of medical conditions | 0.394 | 0.788 | 0.525 |
| personal description of political opinion | 0.363 | 0.716 | 0.482 |
| personal description of sexual information | 0.316 | 0.708 | 0.437 |

(Entries with zero gold in this source are omitted.)

### Progression during training

| step | F1_partial (4-src avg) | F1_exact (4-src avg) |
|------|------------------------|------------------------|
| 17 250 | 0.632 | 0.583 |
| 27 600 | 0.763 | 0.726 |
| 34 500 | 0.793 | 0.756 |
| **41 400 (released)** | **0.827** | **0.796** |
| 48 300 | 0.799 | 0.769 |
| 55 200 | 0.811 | 0.781 |
| 62 100 | 0.773 | 0.746 |

Mid-cosine dip is typical; precision recovery after step 48k didn't exceed the 41 400 peak.

## Labels (25 canonical)

`cpf document number`, `rg document number`, `pis document number`, `credit card`, `phone number`, `email address`, `first name`, `middle name`, `last name`, `dob`, `location street`, `location building number`, `location neighborhood`, `location city`, `location state`, `location state abbreviation`, `location zip`, `location full address`, `personal description of ethnicity`, `personal description of medical conditions`, `personal description of organizational affiliation`, `personal description of political opinion`, `personal description of religious convictions`, `personal description of sexual information`

### Easter egg 🥚

Additional label `berco-de-tiradentes` was integrated **from step 1** — not a post-hoc fine-tune. Trained on ~2 000 samples about **Ritápolis/MG** (birthplace of Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, o Tiradentes). In contrast to the ettin easter-egg fine-tunes (where the label competes weakly against `location city`), here the signal is built in from scratch. Try it with `threshold ≥ 0.30` — no need for the 0.10 workaround used on ettin variants.

## Training recipe

- **Backbone**: `jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small` (22 layers, hidden 384, vocab 256k, max_pos 8192)
- **Span mode**: `token_level`
- **Steps**: 69 000, **batch**: 128, **schedule**: cosine + 10% warmup
- **Focal loss**: α=0.75, γ=2.0, reduction=mean
- **LR**: 1.5e-5 (encoder) / 5e-5 (others), weight decay 0.01
- **Precision**: bf16 with `HIPBLASLT_ALLOW_TF32=0` (MI300X single-GPU partition)
- **Data**: `data/splits/train_with_ritapolis.jsonl` — 986 491 rows, **~113.3M tokens** (cl100k_base; mean 114.8 tokens/row, max 9 908) — PT-BR PII + 2 000 Ritápolis (`berco-de-tiradentes`)

## Usage

```python
from gliner import GLiNER

model = GLiNER.from_pretrained("arthrod/gliner-mmbert-small-ptbr-pii-full-3x-v1")

text = "Meu CPF é 459.871.232-00 e moro na Rua das Acácias, 542, São Paulo/SP, 01234-567."
labels = ["cpf document number", "location street", "location city", "location state abbreviation", "location zip"]
preds = model.predict_entities(text, labels, threshold=0.3, flat_ner=True)
for p in preds:
    print(f"{p['label']:<40} {p['text']:<30} {p['score']:.3f}")
```

## Evaluation details

Holdout: 11-source proportional 5 000-sample holdout.
- **4 PII sources** reported above: `gliner2_pii_ptbr_reward_split` (PT-BR), `nemotron_pii` (EN), `open_pii_masking_500k`, `pii_masking_400k` (multilingual).
- **7 spam/phishing sources** (negative evidence): enron_spam_bvk, enron_spam_setfit, phishing_darkknight, phishing_zefang, sms_spam_multilingual, spam_messages_mshenoda, spamassassin.
- Per-source label superset protocol: canonical 25 PT-BR ∪ row gold (capped 100, lowercased).
- Metrics via `nervaluate`: strict / exact / partial / ent_type F1.

## Related

- [arthrod/gliner-ettin-32m-ptbr-pii-easter-egg-v1](https://huggingface.co/arthrod/gliner-ettin-32m-ptbr-pii-easter-egg-v1) — 32M ettin, fast
- [arthrod/gliner-ettin-68m-ptbr-pii-easter-egg-v1](https://huggingface.co/arthrod/gliner-ettin-68m-ptbr-pii-easter-egg-v1) — 68M ettin, mid-tier
- **Demo**: [arthrod/gliner-ptbr-pii-demo](https://huggingface.co/spaces/arthrod/gliner-ptbr-pii-demo) — interactive playground with all three